Glowing Beauty - Skin, Florence |
Monday, 12 November 2007 |
Recent collaboration between the industrious designer Michael Young and his wife, Icelandic graphic artist Katrin Olina Petursdottir,
resulted in SKIN. It is an exquisite Florentine cosmetic surgery clinic
commissioned by Dr. Jorgos Foukis, guru to the rich and
(determined-to-remain) beautiful.
SKIN is befittingly located in central Florence in Borgo San Jacopo, an
area known already in 1050 for a hospital for the pilgrims on their way
to Rome. SKIN’s 250-square-metre space includes state-of-the-art
operating theaters, meeting rooms, massage rooms, offices and a
reception.
In SKIN, the Hong-Kong-based Young and Olina have managed to fuse
sterile medical with sexy boudoir. The overall feeling of lightness and
illumination is achieved by applying a translucent laminate glazing DuPont
on not only walls, windows and mirrors but on floors as well, allowing
Olina’s beautiful, light-pastel imagery to glow through. By Tuija Seipell
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