Raw Edges: Herringbones

Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay present their experiments with patterns and colours in a performance that encourages visitors to get involved, in the 5 Vie district #MDW2016

After Maarten Baas and Max Lamb, this year it is Israeli design duo Raw Edges’ turn to “occupy” the delightful and unpolished Via Zecca Vecchia in the 5 Vie district with their experiments.

Curated by Federica Sala, the exhibition has turned the former Garage Sanremo into a workshop where an installation-performance gives a live demonstration of the tools employed to create Herringbones.

Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay continue their research into the use of colours and patterns via a technique that slowly and repeatedly dips wooden planks into colour. Visitors are encouraged to try their hands at it by dipping coarse wooden planks into special tubs filled with colour.

Raw Edges: Herringbones — The ex Garage Sanremo in via Zecca Vecchia hosts the installation Herringbones, by israeli designer Raw Edges

Herringbones is a further evolution of the parquet created for Established & Sons and for Stella McCartney, and then developed into the Endgrain project in which the designers dyed wooden slats by cooking them in inks before assembling and sculpting them.