Chilean-born artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz has designed Swiss watchmaking brand Audemars Piguet's new lounge for Art Basel Hong Kong. "Taking inspiration from the ice formations and snowy winters of Audemars Piguet?s home in Le Brassus, Switzerland, the lounge will express the purity of nature and the passing of time," says Errazuriz.

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Chilean-born artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz has designed Swiss watchmaking brand Audemars Piguet's new lounge for Art Basel Hong Kong. "Taking inspiration from the ice formations and snowy winters of Audemars Piguet?s home in Le Brassus, Switzerland, the lounge will express the purity of nature and the passing of time," says Errazuriz."With water and ice as its main thematic elements, the new stand will give form to the concept of ice cycle as a metaphor of time. Three key components will anchor Errazuriz?s design: the icicle as a beautiful form, accumulating over time; the water drop, seen as nature?s ticking pulse; and ripples in the water, symbolizing the forward movement of new life. The drips of the melting icicles resemble nature?s pulse, like the beating of a heart or a ticking clock."
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