Instagram was set alight yesterday, as Italian fashion house Bottega Veneta fully embraced ‘Sunday funday’ by dropping a surprise photograph of a naked Kate Moss.
The supermodel’s lack of clothing might have led you to guessing this shoot was not to promote Creative Director Matthieu Blazy’s recent designs. In fact, the picture and short clip are highlighting the resin chair with a hand drawn logo which Moss is perched on. Now, you can buy a similar one too.
The rectangular, upright seat is one of 400 designed by the 83-year-old Italian architect Gaetano Pesce for Bottega’s SS23 show, which Moss walked in this September. Pesce is known for his out-of-the-box furniture and resin work, and these Come Stai? show chairs are the architect’s first novel seat made in several years. Now if that isn’t something to strip off for…
A selection of the artworks, which are made of cotton canvas before being dipped in coloured resin and decorated with various, doodled accoutrements, are going up on view and for sale during Design Miami, the design fair, from November 30 to December 4. They aren’t cheap, of course, starting at $6,500 for a plain, block colour style, and reaching $10,900 for ones that have Bottega Veneta written on the back, a la Mossy. You can also find a smaller selection on the brand’s website for sale now, each priced £9,500.
Their eye catching vivid shades and odd individual drawings – you’ll find chairs with bags, faces, bottles of wine, and random punctuation marks scrawled across – add up to a statement on equality and diversity, says a press release.
“This chair is a tribute to diversity,” Pesce says. “It is about the human being; we are all different. People who say we are all the same – f**k them! We are all different and this is our defining quality – otherwise, we are just a copy. We are all originals and this is one of the themes of my design.”
