Yinka Ilori creates brightly coloured Christmas tree for London hotel
Yinka Ilori has rounded off a busy year by designing a stylised Christmas tree for London's Sanderson hotel, featuring his signature colourful and graphic aesthetic.
Ilori designed the 2.5-metre-tall Christmas tree to greet guests as they enter the lobby of the Philippe Starck-designed hotel on Berners Street.
The sculptural installation comprises five geometric forms that are layered to create a simplified representation of a Christmas tree. The design of the tree is also intended to evoke a stack of colourfully wrapped presents.
Each element is rendered in a different colour, with adjacent surfaces on some of the components also contrasting to enhance the three-dimensionality of the construction.
Ilori designed the installation to be made using standard industrial materials including pieces of sawn timber and plywood sheets. The solid base contains a light source that illuminates the centre of the open structure. Light passing through gaps in the structure casts shadows on the surrounding surfaces.
The tree occupies a prominent spot in the lobby of the West End hotel, which was completely refurbished by Starck in 2000. The heritage-listed 1950s building was originally a company headquarters and retains many of its original features.
The Christmas tree is the latest in a long list of commissioned projects in the capital that has seen the designer revitalise an unloved railway bridge, co-create a multicoloured pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery, and handle the design of ...
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