Looking for a dream oasis in the middle of winter? The Peninsula New York and Peninsula Hong Kong hotels boast luxurious Asian-inspired spas to revitalize mind, body and spirit in sanctuaries of seclusion and splendor.
The Spa, housed in the Peninsula New York Hotel, is a 35,000-square-foot oasis featuring thermal suites with ice fountains set against a backdrop of 24-karat gold Bisazza mosaic. The gold mosaic enhances the nature-inspired design of the spa offering luxurious compliments to the organic form featured throughout.
The beauty of the mosaic illuminates the dream-like environment of marble, warm woods and hues of cinnabar, amber and charcoal throughout the Spa. The gold mosaic allows a wide range of luminous effects and shades to enhance the calm lighting of the Spa, particularly because of the diffusion and vibration of light off the shimmering gold.
The Peninsula Hong Kong is home to The Peninsula Spa by ESPA, a calming environment of reclaimed antique wood and green bamboo complimented by shimmering glass mosaic.
The Spa experience is tranquil, peaceful and framed by a glimmering glass mosaic backdrop.
Alessandro Mendini, artist and designer, has worked throughout his career with various international design companies awakening with his projects the desires of contemporary buyers and art lovers.
ALESSANDRO MENDINI PROUST MONUMENTALE
Photo Alberto Ferrero
Once defining himself as a “designer of a milky way”, Mendini is an artist who pursues a range of interests, with notable passions for literature, architecture and design. Mendini considers himself a “magazine designer” after his work with Casabella and Domus throughout the 1970s and his work to steer the magazines in the direction of radical, functional and rational design.
ALESSANDRO MENDINI PROUST MONUMENTALE
Photo Alberto Ferrero
Alessandro Mendini led art direction for Bisazza during the late 1980s, and under his direction Bisazza was one of the first companies who looked to leading architects and designers for artistic advice developing from then on collaborations with a variety of personalities in the world of art, architecture and design such as Sandro Chia, Ettore Sottsass, Jaime Hayon, Marcel Wanders and Alessandro Mendini himself.
Convinced that architecture does not originate from the city but from the human body, the “centre of all spatial interest,” Mendini has carried through a number of architectural projects, including the tower in Hiroshima in Japan, the Groninger Museum (Holland 1989-94), the Louisiana Museum (Denmark 1996), the Arosa Casino in Arosa (Switzerland 1997), the Maghetti-neighborhood in Lugano (Switzerland 1999). His project for the Subway of Naples (2001-2003) was presented at the Biennial of Architecture in Venice (2002) and was awarded a gold medal for Architecture at the Milan Triennial (2003). He was also twice awarded of the Compasso d’Oro (Golden Compass Award): in 1979 for his theoretical analyses and in 1982 for design.
“Mobili Per Uomo” (Furniture for Man), a notable project from Mendini, is made up of nine out-of-scale sculptures in yellow gold mosaic designed and created between 1997 and 2008. The project started as a symbolic expression of the essentials of a man’s wardrobe: Giacca, Scarpa, Guanto e Testa pensante (Jacket, Shoe, Glove and Thinking Head, 1997) and was later complemented by Lampada e Tazzina (Lampshade and Cup, from the Nuovi Mobili per Uomo – New Furniture for Man series, 2002), Stella (Star, 2003), Cappello (Hat, 2004) and Borsa (Suitcase, 2008).
ALESSANDRO MENDINI MOBILI PER UOMO
Photo Ottavio Tomasini
The entire Mobili per Uomo collection is now showcased in Vicenza together with the Proust Monumentale, the famous Proust armchair originally designed by Mendini in 1987 with Studio Alchymia, produced by Bisazza in an oversized version for the “Art of Italian Design” exhibition in Athens, October 2005.
Bisazza will present “The Pixel Vases Collection” designed by Jaime Hayon at the 2010 occasion of Maison&Objet. The collection will be showcased at the Bisazza Paris flagship store, at 26 rue Madame, beginning January 21st,.
The “dreamy-pop” vases, entitled Antenahat, Ballhat, Bulletrabbit, Black Bulletrabbit, Openholes, Openmuñeco and Pointyhat, are all numbered as part of Bisazza’s Limited Editions collection, a limited edition series of exquisite works with Bisazza mosaic tile.
Antenahat
Ballhat
Bulletrabbit
Black Bulletrabbit
With Pixel Vases, the Spanish designer Jaime Hayon unconventionally experiments with mosaic through his own personal language.
“… the intention is to break with the traditional use of the Bisazza elements… where the mosaic application can become any shape, any intention within artistic expression.” (Jaime Hayon)
The use of mosaic with ceramic, resulted in objects of uncommon and voluptuous shapes.
Each vase looks like a lead character of a fairy tale environment and represents a luring and intriguing way of using mosaic.
Openholes
Openmuneco
Openmuneco with Pedestal
