The concept of Shades of Elegance was designed to demonstrate the colour layout of the traditional chador and to highlight the treasured wall tapestries. Therefore, a dark background was deemed necessary to make the centrepieces stand out. In addition, antique photographs were installed in a Petersburg hanging, showing the everyday life of nineteenth-century Tehran, Persia.

 

​The exhibition platforms were all made of black MDF, staging the oriental robes and illuminated only selectively. The text panels were made of aluminum, creating a beautiful shimmering effect throughout the whole exhibition.

 

​The interaction of the black walls, the luminous textiles and the simple everyday objects made of clay and brass, as well as the silver shimmering of the text panels, conveyed the noble variety of rich oriental culture in high quality.

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Client: Museum Rietberg Zurich

Project start: 2018

Her responsibilities: research, sketches, brainstorming, design and realization

Team: Cristian Zabalaga (Exhibition Architect)

Axel Langer (curator and project manager)

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