Italian designer Cristina Celestino referenced 50s furniture for The Happy Room, a travelling installation for fashion house Fendi shown at Design Miami last month.
The room contains marble-topped tables, velvet seating and vanity tables made of polished wood and brass by Celestino.

Fendi now plans to tour the room around the world, using it as a place to host personal appointments and show new materials.
Low tables feature brass supports shaped to resemble an oversized butterfly earring back, and have inlaid tops made from contrasting colours and shapes of marble.

The butterfly motif is repeated as an ornamental addition to armchairs and sofas ? which also have bases made of fur.
Floor lamps, wrapped in shades made from perforated calf skin, rest on striped domed bases also made from slabs of different marbles.
The space is divided by long velvet curtains in block colours of grey and yellow.
Celestino told the Telegraph that she took inspiration from Italian design of different periods for the space.

"I'm influenced by so much Italian design," she said. "The experimentation of Sottsass and the Memphis group and their playing with volumes; the way that Paolo Buffa worked so elegantly with wood in the 50s."

Celestino has also designed a screen for the space, which features an arch-shaped central mirror and surrounding panels made from Etere ? a new material developed by Fendi that combines resin and fur.
"It's really about using colours,...