Designer Sabine Marcelis has used glass, travertine and polished metal to create a collection of sculptural interventions that respond to the materiality of Mies van Der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion.
No Fear of Glass is the latest in a series of temporary installations staged at the pavilion, which is a recreation of the structure built by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich for the Barcelona Expo in 1929.
One of the instructions given to Mies van der Rohe when designing the pavilion was to "not use too much glass". Marcelis playfully subverted this request by using glass as the main material for her interventions.

The designer created two chaise longues, two pillar lights and a fountain for the installation, using glass, travertine and chrome in a direct response to the materials found throughout the pavilion. Each of the pieces uses transparency, reflections and ombré effects to distort how they appear as visitors move around the space.
This approach echoes how the pavilion's architects employed polished stone, mirrored steel and glass to amplify the sense of space inside the structure.

The chaise longues feature bases made from the same travertine as the building's floor, which appears to pop up to support delicate sheets of curved glass.
These glass pieces seem to have migrated from the building's outer walls and are treated with a coloured gradient matching hues found in the golden onyx panelling.

In the pavilion's larger reflecting pool, Marcelis installed a ...