Korean artist Kwangho Lee has taken over Bottega Veneta’s Via Sant’Andrea store in Milan with an installation created during Design Week. Titled Lightful, the work sees twisting cords of the house’s signature fettucce leather, in bespoke green and black, suspended from the ceiling, coiling around the store’s first-floor water feature like vines. Some are woven into basket-like forms that conceal softly glowing LEDs within.
The installation marks Lee’s third collaboration with the brand and his first time working with leather as a medium. Hand-woven with artisans at Bottega Veneta’s Montebello Vicentino atelier, the pieces use the house’s iconic Intrecciato technique to create something wild and organic. Lee built the composition directly in the space over several days, responding to the architecture as he went. “It’s quite intuitive, just like playing,” he told Wallpaper*.
Lee’s exhibition combines craft, sculpture and fashion. Precisely the territory Bottega Veneta explores. Lightful is on view at Via Sant’Andrea 15 during Milan Design Week.
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