Mai Sedersi sugli Allori
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Tolomeo
carla
Mai Sedersi sugli Allori
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well as, without the artist’s intention, into the most beautiful
homes where ,with skilful irony, among the bronzes and the
marbles, also a pink velvet fish and a han covered with green
sequins can fit well.
Fashion and Haute Couture are another aspect of the im-
age of our indefatigable Carla.The cloth ,soft and sinuous of
Tolomeo’s bring our minds to the fashion shows in Paris and
Milan.The chair backs, in the shape of huge roses, displayed
in the hall of the hotel Meurice in Paris, recall the crinolines
by Christian Lacroix.The broad range of colours that tolomeo
uses on her palette allowed her to establish a fruitful collabo-
ration with Hermès, whose Paris windows housed her works,
exhibiting 18 chairs made with the silks of this prestigious
Maison.Do not be surprised then that major stylists have
ordered these masterpieces for their own boutiques, from
Taiwan to Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and London.Carla has broad-
ened some houses and pushed back their walls, bringing her
furniture in the gardens and parks of magnificent, invented,
surrealistic residences, using metallic wires as fabrics and
inserting them into fabrics, or even silver, marbles and mir-
rors.Tolomeo’s enchanted world is now present also in Mos-
cow, calling you in the palpitating embrace of her chairs, full
of poetry and dreams.
Alexandre Vassilev
Essay-writer, fashion historian interior designer
