Incollect Magazine - Issue 14

Incollect Magazine 51 BAMO Architectural Mirage Conceived in the footsteps of Jean-Cocteau, BAMO created a surrealist-inspired architectural envelope with a mind-blowing wood-slat wave ceiling, in the manner of the mid-century Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, that appears to move rhythmically as it stretches across the room towards the water. Folds of curtained walls align with the slats, blurring the distinction between horizontal and vertical. Gio Ponti’s 1950s geometric floor designed for Villa Plancha, Caracas, was the inspiration for the mixed stone composition here, with oversized and irregular shapes that whirl around the room. Biomorphic-shaped furnishings reinforce the room’s surrealist abstraction, and Franz West’s quirky “Privat Lampe II” plays a visual joke. An oversized painting depicts a distant landscape dissolving into the sky, mirroring the scene outside where the sea and sky become one.