A NEW WAY OF THINKING ABOUT NATURE, MATERIALITY & LUXURY
The digital ‘window’ reveals a day in the life of a mature banyan tree in Ranakpur, India, filmed continuously for 24 hours in the middle of the monsoon season. Banyan trees, which typically live for two to three hundred years and symbolise immortality, are the national tree of India.
“The outstanding inherent beauty of the tree attracted both people and a delightful menagerie of animals throughout the course of one day and night, so that we were able to paint a portrait of the daily life of a rural Rajasthani community”
- Marco Tabasso
VIEW 20: Transcendence builds upon its original incarnation shown at the Rossana Orlandi Gallery during Milan Design Week 2022, and at 5VIE, Milan in 2023. The current iteration, also designed by Nature Squared’s Chief Material Innovator, British-Chinese textile weaver and artist Elaine Yan Ling Ng, deepens the viewing experience by adding a tactile dimension, a frame that evokes the humble yet captivating natural world unfolding in the digital realm, and creating a meditative space made of sustainable materials.
THE ‘WINDOW’ FRAME
The digital window’s architectural frame pays tribute to temple architecture in India with a handwoven PASTORALE textile wall covering edged with strips of baked eggshell, bamboo reclaimed from construction waste, and columns made of TERRAMIQUE, a Nature Squared moulded material designed by Elaine Yan Ling Ng and produced from sustainably sourced crushed eggshell. At the base of the frame, the set of steps is assembled from CArrelé eggshell tiles.
the complements of the space
The space is completed by a set of additional elements comprised by a viewing bench, and six hand-woven floor mats in patterns from Nature Squared’s ILLIMITADA textile collection. These are flanked by hanging handwoven textile screens, as well as two semi-transparent feature panels of draped hand-woven pina fibre.
The entrance to the contemplative space is marked with a sinuous screen, columns and stools, all made from waste eggshell that has been crushed, dyed with natural materials, and moulded into Nature Squared’s signature CArrelé tiles. Each square
metre of eggshell tiles uses about 3,000 eggshells.
THE experience
To complete the mindful personal experience during the opening at the galler visitors could join us for a matcha tea made by Moko’s Matcha Milano. and live music.
About anotherview
Marco Tabasso, Tatiana Uzlova, and Robert Andriessen are the Anotherview Collective, assembling their different points of view and experiences in art and design to create their 24-hour digital nomadic windows, each telling its own individual story about the contemporary world. Founded in 2017, Anotherview’s unique works of art challenge viewers with both temporal and spatial displacements, changing the window from a fixed architectural feature into a metaphor for perception, a lens to see beyond this present place and time, and creating a contemporary nostalgia for today. As twenty-first-century archivists the team researches, records, and saves important and rare places filmed now in order to build an archive for future generations.
More about Anotherview here
about nomad private collections
Founded by Dmitry Lensky and Helen Lenskaya, NOMAD Private Collection is a contemporary design gallery specialising in custom art, furnishings, and accessories. Works displayed in the split-level villa in Dubai are carefully selected, and include
custom designs and limited edition pieces, vintage finds and collectibles.
More about Nomad here
