Italian Architect Ilaria Marelli Designed Mysterious Underground Cave

Italian architect Ilaria Marelli designed a cave, a new charming installation for Pitti Uomo which is an important men’s fashion fair in Florence. The installation is designed for the visitors could feel like exploring an underground cave. The architect has designed the cave to provide place to New Beat, an exhibition featuring fourteen emerging fashion brands and designers. The dark interior spaces are illuminated by transparent threads from the top while furnishings of metallic and jewel colors are intended to represent minerals and valuable stones found underground.

The shape and surface of doorway are jagged like basalt deposits. Just behind entry door, there is a curtain of transparent strings hanging from the ceiling. The top-down illumination of the entrance creates attractive gleaming. Colored light cascades light up dark spaces, reflect on vertical mirrored panels and offer amazing views inside the pavilion. A video set on the surface of light cascades motivates visitors’ imagination for underground caves.  The exhibition desks comprise big blocks of different shapes and sizes, painted in silver, gold and copper colors like costly minerals.

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