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July 29th, 2011 Daily archive

Certainly, only a few people know what happens when Ivo Milan is asked an apparently simple question, that is to wrap a gift. If the request comes from the web site, it is impossible to know how long it takes. If it happens in the shop, the customers are kindly asked to go out and do other things, in order not to spend their time waiting. Even if it might sound as a nuisance, the surprise and wonder in front of the result are inevitable.

In fact, it is hard to expect that a package, that is often neglected and made banal with impersonal papers and ribbons, might be conceived as something poetic, that is able to cause pleasure and emotion in the person who receives it.

Sari’s hands and dreams turn the box to unwrap into a canvas where imaginative drifts can be painted, art performances to be admired and photographed… because their life is really short, they will be unwrapped in a few minutes.

A new service that might be considered useless, that is nevertheless a generous expression of kindness. Such kindness is shown through a completely unknown language, that is able to enhance the real value of the gift.

Since 16 years ago, when she joined the family’s company, Sari Milan has been able to adapt her inventiveness to the strongly innovative spirit of the company, by devoting herself to the tasks that agree with her self-expression: shop windows, communication and installations.

Of course, if requested, she will wrap your gift.

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To show once again how the limits between art and fashion are indefinable within the so-called Japanese school, we report the curious installation the architect Yoichi Yamamoto made, for Issey Miyake’s boutique in Tokyo.

A series of blue chairs, where the colourful hats by Akio Hirata, the most important Japanese hat designer, are hung and displayed.

The position of the hats hides an artificial optical effect, that is obtained through a clever combination of three-dimensional elements, the chair backs, and two-dimensional elements, the legs of the playful blue chairs.

When you look at the shop-window from a certain point of view, the apparent plainness of the installation is able to deceive the ingenuous observers. Only from a different point of view, the complicated and surprising optical illusion is revealed.

Another evidence of the essential value that is added by different skills is clear when a shop-window is not merely considered as a transient display of items to be sold, but also as a special place where abstract compositions can be shown and shared with a moving audience.


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