Beam Me Up. Milan, Italy. April 2016.
Similiar to my prior post about the Citizen Watch Fuori Salone installation, Sou Fujimoto's design for COS during Salone del Mobile was a favorite of mine well. Fujimoto designed a "Forest of Light" for the brand using spotlights and mirrors. The space they used for the collaboration was an old theatre, so it was very fitting that we were surrounded in darkness and spotlights were the only light sources. Fujimoto's lights formed cone beams that pierced through the darkness and they turned on and off in response to the movements of visitors, a very new age forest. I particularly enjoyed this installation because Fujimoto's minimalist approach of only using light also reflected the clean lines and simplicity of COS itself.