Architect Gal Gaon’s installation for Nilufar Gallery at Milan Design Week 2025 explores the fusion of home and art, reimagining the home office as an immersive artistic environment. Designed as a sculptural scenography, the installation transforms everyday objects into a dreamlike celestial sanctuary, where reality and fantasy converge. A testament to Gaon’s visionary approach, the Heaven Collection seamlessly blends mythological grandeur with contemporary artistry, inspiring both creativity and contemplation. Each piece in the collection embodies an organic yet celestial presence, drawing from Greek mythology while embracing the abstract surrealism of modern design. At the heart of the collection stand Aglaea and Thalia, two monumental stainless-steel sculptures interpreting two of the Three Graces (Les Trois Grâces). Composed of five to six reflective elements each, they resemble contemporary dancers, their forms stacked in a gravity-defying balance of movement and stillness. Suspended from the ceiling, the pendant sculpture Zeus introduces an ethereal, ever-shifting presence.
Composed of four highly polished stainless steel volumes, this mobile sculpture rotates freely in a celestial dance, reflecting and refracting light as it hovers in space. The Torii desk in a deep green polished, symbolizes a threshold between the earthly and the divine, a grand gesture for one’s thought and creation. Its rich hue finds harmony in the sculpted Waterfall sofa, upholstered in a dark green palette that evokes depth, serenity, and quiet sophistication. Together, these pieces form an evocative landscape, an office reimagined as an artistic sanctuary, where every element is imbued with movement, meaning, and myth. “As above, so below; as within, so without.” — A principle echoed in Hermetic philosophy, often linked to Greek mystical thought. In this poetic fusion of function and art, Gaon invites us to inhabit a space where mythology, movement, and materiality converge—transforming the everyday into a realm where boundaries dissolve, and creation becomes infinite.
