American interior designer Kelly Wearstler has designed a virtual garage in the desert that she imagines housing basketball player LeBron James' electric Hummer.
Informed by California's modernist architecture and the landscape around Joshua Tree, the house-garage hybrid was designed to mark the launch of the electric Hummer with James envisioned as the client.
"I imagined that LeBron James, who is the ambassador for the Hummer EV, would live there," Wearstler told Dezeen.
"I wanted to create a super sexy home in the desert where his vehicle is a sculpture."
The virtual garage features a car lift
Wearstler designed the garage as there is an increased interest in virtual design due to several high-profile sales of digital artworks including the first NFT-backed digital house, which just sold for over half a million dollars. "I think we are starting to see the value in virtual art and design more than ever before," said Wearstler.
"Since the pandemic began it has provided accessible and safe sources of escape and become highly valued,"  continued Wearstler, who is a judge for Dezeen Awards 2021.
"You now see virtual art and design being sold and auctioned for huge amounts."
The design references midcentury California architecture
As well as being a new frontier for her studio, building a virtual interior rather than a physical set for the Hummer EV launch was also a more environmentally conscious decision, said Wearstler.
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