A hanging rainbow garden dangles from the ceiling in a new Tokyo installation by French architect and designer Emmanuelle Moureaux. The piece is called Bunshi, based on the Japanese concept of ramificiation. Moureaux suspends 20,000 multicolored branches around a display at the Wood Furniture Japan Award 2016 Exhibition. Each branch seems to sprout or grow from the branches around it, diverging and multiplying in fractal-like patterns.
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The branches come in 100 different colors, aligned to create hidden three-dimensional grids. Carved through the center of the hanging branches is a tunnel that visitors can walk through, and where the furniture is displayed. Walking through is meant to simulate the meditative quality of a forest, but with a Lisa Frank color palette. "It is like being in a colorful forest that spreads infinitely," Moreaux tells The Creators Project. "I want people to breathe and be immersed in 100 colors. I want people to see colors, touch colors, and feel colors with their senses. I want people to feel emotions through colors."Bunshi was on display at SPIRAL in Tokyo in early March. Check out images of the installation below.
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