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Proust 2 Holiday Ornament
Alessandro Mendini for Alessi 2023
Hand-decorated blown glass
[Ø 9cm / 3.54"]
Conceived during a trip to the places associated with the famous French writer, in which Alessandro Mendini perceived the affinity between the writer Marcel Proust and the Parisian pointillists, the “Proust” decoration was born from the reinterpretation of a detail in a painting by Paul Signac. The iconic decorative pattern is now added to the Holiday Season, proving how its innate expressive power is able to transfigure any medium into an artistic object. To make every decoration a miniature work of art.
The baubles can be hung on wires, lamps, candlesticks, posts, and bookshelves. They can be attached with wire or tape and made into a seasonal wreath, etc.
Marcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer responsible for what is officially the longest novel in the world: À la recherche du temps perdu – [Remembrance of Things Past] which has 1,267,069 words in it; double those in Leo Tolstoy's 'War and Peace. [Wikipedia]
Paul Signac and Pointillism: Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. [Wikipedia]
Detail of Seurat's "Femmes au puits" 1892:
