You know how we love a good cross-disciplinary collaboration, those hands-across-the-water moments when a designer, an artist, an architect collaborate, co-create, commission. Why? Because they push each artist to take new positions, to consider previously unconsidered possibilities.
And so it is that we applaud Zaha Hadid’s design for Chanel’s Contemporary Art Container. A take-apart structure, the Container will travel for two years to major cities like Tokyo, LA, New York, Paris, Moscow and London. This slick futuristic hovercraft, so appropriate for its here today, gone tomorrow nature, will house Mobile Art, an exhibition of contemporary work by 15 artists commissioned by Karl Lagerfeld to riff on the quilted Chanel bag.
We’ll surely be hearing more about this soon. For now, read Cathy Horyn’s note on the Container. And see a video rendering on the NY Times website.
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