COLLECTIBLE FAIR NEW YORK 2025: "GLAMOUR ALLE VONGOLE"
For the CURATED program at this year's COLLECTIBLE Fair at WSA in New York, Architectural Digest’s Hannah Martin asked for design proposals which would speak to the theme "In Praise of Folly." The piece Tara designed is titled “Glamour alle Vongole" and is inspired in equal parts by Surrealism, cinema, and a recent dinner at The Odeon.
Fellini used food as a means to evoke, but what if food itself could evoke Fellini? A theatrical take on a theatrical period in design history, my design is a Hollywood Regency style lamp refashioned using the ingredients of the classic dish, linguine alle vongole. A stick lampshade made of dried linguine is festooned with parsley trimmings and the traditional cut glass charms on the body of the lamp are replaced with shells.
In the tradition of the Surrealist Readymade, Tara chose to use this Hollywood Regency lamp as a foundation - Hollywood Regency is, after all, a style very much rooted in fiction; its exaggerated interpretation of neoclassical ideas make it an ideal jumping-off point for an exploration of Folly.
Photos by Elliott Fuerniss
For the CURATED program at this year's COLLECTIBLE Fair at WSA in New York, Architectural Digest’s Hannah Martin asked for design proposals which would speak to the theme "In Praise of Folly." The piece Tara designed is titled “Glamour alle Vongole" and is inspired in equal parts by Surrealism, cinema, and a recent dinner at The Odeon.
Fellini used food as a means to evoke, but what if food itself could evoke Fellini? A theatrical take on a theatrical period in design history, my design is a Hollywood Regency style lamp refashioned using the ingredients of the classic dish, linguine alle vongole. A stick lampshade made of dried linguine is festooned with parsley trimmings and the traditional cut glass charms on the body of the lamp are replaced with shells.
In the tradition of the Surrealist Readymade, Tara chose to use this Hollywood Regency lamp as a foundation - Hollywood Regency is, after all, a style very much rooted in fiction; its exaggerated interpretation of neoclassical ideas make it an ideal jumping-off point for an exploration of Folly.
Photos by Elliott Fuerniss and Simon Leung