The set design for the Bottega Veneta Autumn Winter 2024 womenswear show at Milan Fashion Week featured a special edition of Le Corbusier's LC14 Cabanon stool in burnt wood.
For the show in Milan, which was informed by the south of Italy, the fashion brand created an edition of 350 wooden stools.
These were burnt by hand, following a traditional Japanese scorching technique that was also used for the floor of the catwalk the models walked down.
The floor and the stools were scorched with the same technique
Placed around the scorched-wood show space were giant flowering cacti sculptures made from Murano glass.
Bottega Veneta creative director Matthieu Blazy said he wanted the set to convey "resilience and a feeling of hope".
"The floor is fired, the box stool is fired, the Murano glass cactus is fired," he added. "The cactus grows where nothing else can grow." Giant flowering cacti were made from Murano glass
The LC14 Cabanon stools by Le Corbusier were produced with Italian manufacturer Cassina and in close collaboration with Fondation Le Corbusier.
The scorched-wood finish added by Bottega Veneta was said to give "natural protection to the wood while revealing the distinct patterns of the grain, making each stool in the series unique".
Originally, the stool was a whiskey box that Le Corbusier found and "repurposed a pragmatic thing that became a legend," Blazy said.
Models walked out into the atmospheric set
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