Loewe & Solar Magazine Present “Marquetry in Leather” at Loewe

Photography by Ryan Troy on May 16th, 2016 in Culture, MAISON&OBJET AMERICAS 2016

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Miami, FL – May 11, 2016 – On the occasion of the second edition of Maison&Objet Americas, Loewe and Solar Magazine presented a special “Marquetry in Leather” furniture project conceived and directed by Jonathan Anderson, and the first issue of Solar Magazine. Notable attendees included Alan Faena and Ximena Caminos, Marvin Ross Friedman and Adrienne bon Haes, Kelly Framel and Zachary Lynd, Igor Ramírez García Peralta, Michaela Dosamantes, Anastasia Koutsioukis and Ahmet Erkaya, Rodman Primack, Maximiliano Patanae, Santiago Tarditi, Daniela Botero, Adriana Castro and Jenny Lopez.

Following its presence at the recent edition of the Salone del Mobile Furniture Fair in Milan, LOEWE now presents in Miami a set of oak furniture featuring unique designs composed from multiple fragments of leather in various shapes and colors. The innovative project updates existing forms of craft in an elaborate process informed by methods used in traditional bookbinding and woodworking. Specifically, the special project, conceived by LOEWE creative director Jonathan Anderson, gives a novel articulation to the ancient technique of marquetry, in which inlays of various materials are used to embellish furniture. For LOEWE’s new project, leather cutouts have been applied onto the wood surfaces of three-dimensional objects to create decorative motifs adapted from archival prints and patterns.

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