Karl Lagerfeld, the German fashion designer who hardly need any introduction, is also a photographer. He recently put up a photographic exhibition at the Cassina showroom on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris, which, without any doubt, was packed with fans taking snaps of the designer on their smartphones. This exhibition contained 34 unique photographs of Cassina’s iconic furniture creations, including Charlotte Perriand’s Nuage bookshelf and Gerrit Thomas Rietveld’s Zig-Zag chair.
Lagerfeld photographed these furniture pieces with an abstract eye, creating graphic images that are printed on Plexiglas, in super-sized formats: “It’s interesting in the sense that those pieces are so famous that to look at them with a different eye gives a new vision of something you knew already’’ he said.
After the exhibit, Lagerfeld described the venture as a passion project: “All those things I photographed are things I love, and most of them I owned and had in different houses, I’m 100 percent behind the brand because I think they are great. They have the most beautiful iconic pieces in the world of furniture editions”.
Karl Lagerfeld is already thinking about his next project, where he will experiment with a large-format version of the 19th-century daguerreotype, a photographic process using silvered copper plates. He explained that “Fendi is restoring the Trevi Fountain and I am making a book about all the Roman fountains called ‘The Glory of Water’’.
Lagerfeld’s photographic prints remain on exhibit in Paris until the 10th of March, after which the prints will be moved to Milan for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April. Check out this video for a behind-the-scenes footage of Karl Lagerfeld working on this exhibition’s photographs.
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