Schiaparelli creative director Daniel Roseberry has collaborated with artist F Taylor Colantonio on a collection of sculptural bronze and silk furniture that includes a chair-lamp hybrid.
The starting point for the creative collaboration was the neoclassical theme of the Toilet of Venus, a subject that was popular in the sixteenth century.
The daybed was made from raw bronze and has a silk cover
The Schiaparelli collection includes a daybed and a set of chairs, which feature an integrated lamp, and is produced to order.
The pieces were made from raw, unpatinated bronze and have been upholstered in silk embroidery.
The collection ?bears the Schiaparelli imprint?
The bronze was cast in Italy using the lost wax technique, a method that involves creating a replica of the sculpture in plaster or clay to make a soft mould into which molten wax is poured. The wax is then removed from the mould and placed within a ceramic shell inside a kiln. As the wax melts, bronze is poured into the shell, taking the form of the lost wax.

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The daybed, named One Long as Twenty, derives its name from an excerpt from a Shakespeare poem about the love story of Venus and Adonis.
The corded-silk embroidery with gilded-leather applique was designed by Roseberry.
The embroidery features two figures, referencing two wooden mannequins named Pascal and Pascaline, the unoffici...