Bologna-based luxury furniture company Visionnaire is entering the metaverse with the launch of the Visionnaire NFT. Set to be unveiled on 1 April 2022, to align with Milan\u2019s modern and contemporary art fair, Miart, the NFT builds on the company\u2019s traditions of championing innovative and avant-garde design.\nWith the piece...
with an exploration of 3D animation that places objects outside of their traditional narratives. Monaghan was quickly seduced by the possibilities of NFTs, embracing them as early as 2013, when he used bitcoin blockchains to authenticate digital artworks. Monaghan went on to exhibit at the Sundance Film Festival, St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, before being inspired to add his own contemporary spin to a traditional piece.– in conjunction with Visionnaire.
Their creation is crafted from Carrara marble, with the life-size bust reminiscent of the tactile capitonné leather more commonly seen in furniture pieces. Embracing juxtaposition – the softness of the imagined leather, the cool hardness of the marble – as well as uniting the physical and the digital and the past with the present, the piece marks a new direction for Visionnaire.