New Zealand artist George Nuku decorated Kartell transparent furniture with traditional scenes from the Maori people.

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George Nuku is an artist, carver and sculptor of Maori origin. This ancient culture has become an inexhaustible source of inspiration for him. He transfers folk motives and ritual patterns to modern materials - in addition to traditional stone, wood, bones and shells, he works with plexiglass, polystyrene and acrylic polymer.

Artist George Nuku.

The decor, reminiscent of the famous tattoos of chiefs and warriors of Maori, got the chairs of Louis Ghost, the pedestals of the Small Ghost Buster, the bench of Uncle Jack and other iconic models of Kartell. All the ornaments - spirals, zigzags, intricate masks - are applied manually.

This furniture is part of the Ducal Salon project, a room in an imaginary Milan palace, where baroque motifs converged on Polynesian carvings. A joint exhibition of George Nuku, Mudec Museum and Kartell Museum with the support of Sotheby’s and the publishing house 24 Ore Cultura was held in Milan at the end of last year. In 2017, the collaboration participates in the D'Days design festival in Paris, which takes place from 2-14 May.