Design collective Numen/For Use has created a netted installation for automobile brand Porsche's The Art of Dreams exhibition at Milan design week, which also features a Vitra furniture collection.
The black and white houndstooth of the Porsche "pepita" pattern informed themes of geometry, symmetry, rhythm and repetition that guided the car brand's installation.
The installation filled the courtyard of the Palazzo Clerici in Milan
Design collective Numen/For Use created an enormous black and white netted installation that filled the courtyards of the Palazzo Clerici in the northern Italian city.
"Our idea of a dream is an inhabitable utopia," said Numen/For Use. "For us, dreaming is a process of self-discovery in which we confront the new and the unknown. The monochrome diagonals within the Pepita pattern suggest a cloud of excited starlings fleeing the binary black and white matrix." Numen/For Use said the installation was informed by a murmuration of starlings
The pepita pattern is made up of small squares connected by diagonal stripes, known as houndstooth or sometimes dog tooth.
Porsche's pepita pattern debuted in 1948 in the 356 C, 911 Porsche. A bright red original 356 model was exhibited on a plinth at The Art of Dreams.
Dancers navigated the fine but strong webbing of the installation
The huge lightweight construction by Numen/For Use was made of delicate cells and contrasting single-colour nets.
Visitors were invited to "climb ins...