Kiki Goti creates "neo-futuristic" dressing room embellished with Balkan motifs
Greek architect and designer Kiki Goti introduced Neo-Self-importance, a set of hand-made furnishings items that commemorate the ritual of dressing up, at Milan design week.
Goti wished to create a dressing room crammed with objects that not solely facilitate the method of beautification but in addition embody it.
Her one-off designs are “dressed up” with hand-painted patterns derived from conventional Balkan textiles.
By combining these motifs with summary shapes constructed from aluminium and acrylic foam, Goti aimed to create “a neo-futuristic surroundings that expresses exuberance”.
“The dressing room is a spot the place the previous and the long run come collectively,” Goti informed Dezeen.
“It is an exquisite second of celebrating your self,” she stated. “Once you’re preparing, you may have your background and your tradition, however you are additionally enthusiastic about who you wish to be.”
“These objects are carrying their full costumes to accompany you thru this means of transformation.”
Initially from Thessaloniki however now based mostly in New York, Goti introduced her Neo-Self-importance dressing room on the Alcova exhibition throughout Milan design week.
The gathering features a dressing desk, a facet desk, a pendant mild and a trio of wall mirrors that double as handhelds.
Goti labored with New York-based metallic fabricator Mark Malecki to supply every object.
Aluminium plates are reduce into curved shapes to kind the flat surfaces of every piece, whereas the sinuous parts are made by shaping rectilinear tubes of froth.
That is achieved by feeding the froth tubes onto skinny metallic rods which have been bent to the specified form.
Goti paints her patterns immediately onto the froth. By taking cues from the textile methods of conventional Balkan folks costumes, she creates a reference to her Greek heritage.
“The colors and patterns of this assortment consult with the standard textile methods of the Balkan area, reminiscent of stitching, weaving and lacing,” she stated.
The designer hopes to point out how ornament is usually a device for empowerment.
“Though ornaments have been closely criticised as redundant, pointless and distracting, they historically manifest deep cultural bonds and particular person expressions,” she stated.
Goti educated as an architect however made the soar into furnishings through the pandemic.
Daring colors and painted by hand foam parts have change into a signature attribute of her designs thus far, which embrace the geometric U+II and I+UU collections.
She is ready to unveil extra new work at NYCxDesign later this month, together with her OO+II pendant lights and wall scones, which appear like summary face masks constructed from sheet metallic.
“I am attempting to do one thing that’s simply as exuberant and funky, however this time with uncooked materials,” she stated.
Different designs launched at this 12 months’s Alcova embrace a compostable injection-moulded chair and a bio textile constructed from waste bricks.
Neo-Self-importance was on show at Alcova from 17 to 23 April 2023 as a part of Milan design week. See Dezeen Occasions Information for extra details about structure and design occasions all over the world.
