Dominic Luytens, Alto, September 30, 2014
In recognition of the new wave of neoclassism in contemporary design, Dominic Luytens discusses selections from Formafantasma's De Natura Fossilium series.
As Luytens has written, "While the first disciples of neoclassicism were bent on replicating classical culture, today's young designers are giving it their own contemporary spin (...) Italian duo Formafantasma, represented in London by Gallery Libby Sellers, have created a particularly striking example - two wallhangings called 'Efesto' and 'Atena' named after the Greek mythological gods of Mount Etna. Picturing images of stone deities and fragments of volcanic rock, they're made of basalt fibre derived from volcanic lava, billed as a sustainable alternative to carbon fibre."
