152. Luciano Pavarotti: Summer Retreat
atelier ying, nyc.
The idea for a summer vacation spot lies in the famed tenor's favorite little cigars, Swiss Villigers, a machine made air cured smoke pressed in very cool rectangular shapes reminding me of Hong Kong's soft banana candies of decades ago.
The cigar box is transformed into a tiny soccer game & Victrola. Sectional drawings proposed for an opera stadium are displayed on a gallery to the side. A soccer ball with Italian colors and a cardboard A.C Milan player (his favorite team) give the pastime a personal touch.
As was mentioned in my design drawing #150, this cigar box is an architectural scale model for the design, which as a funerary object in the manner of ancient Egypt, is not to be built but carried into the next world. In terms of utility and function, this is like a cricket cage belonging to a Chinese scholar, to be tucked into a pocket and carried on the body.
Pavarotti smoked Villigers in the summer only, once a week. They have a lovely Sumatra wrapper leaf. Note that John F. Kennedy also smoked a machine made cigar, by H. Upmann.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.
152. Luciano Pavarotti: Summer Retreat
atelier ying, nyc.
The idea for a summer vacation spot lies in the famed tenor's favorite little cigars, Swiss Villigers, a machine made air cured smoke pressed in very cool rectangular shapes reminding me of Hong Kong's soft banana candies of decades ago.
The cigar box is transformed into a tiny soccer game & Victrola. Sectional drawings proposed for an opera stadium are displayed on a gallery to the side. A soccer ball with Italian colors and a cardboard A.C Milan player (his favorite team) give the pastime a personal touch.
As was mentioned in my design drawing #150, this cigar box is an architectural scale model for the design, which as a funerary object in the manner of ancient Egypt, is not to be built but carried into the next world. In terms of utility and function, this is like a cricket cage belonging to a Chinese scholar, to be tucked into a pocket and carried on the body.
Pavarotti smoked Villigers in the summer only, once a week. They have a lovely Sumatra wrapper leaf. Note that John F. Kennedy also smoked a machine made cigar, by H. Upmann.
Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.