丨美国纽约

Architects:opng

Area:30000ft²

Year:2025

Photographs:Naho Kubota

Manufacturers:Acme Brooklyn

Category:Cultural Architecture,Museums & Exhibit

Design Team:Jeffrey Inaba, Nabila Morales Perez

Technical Team:Charles Chilton, Simon Quayle, Kyle Hagemeier

Lead Team:Many Ameri

Project Management:LDJ

City:New York

Country:United States

Text description provided by the architects. opng / Jeffrey Inaba designs Dior Exhibition set around Noguchi's Sunken Garden. Anticipating the debut collection by their new creative director, Jonathan Anderson, opng designed a first-of-its-kind Dior exhibition, curated by Carine Roitfeld.

Ten display walls crisscross the 30,000sf (2,787sm) interior and orbit around Isamu Noguchi's Sunken Garden (1964). The rugged water and basalt landscape sets the perfect backdrop for the refined haute couture pieces by all the House's past creative directors.

Shown for the first time together are works by Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons, and Maria Grazia Chiuri.

Gowns, accessories, newly commissioned photographs by Brigitte Niedermair, archival videos, sketches, and mock-ups present Dior's legendary history of design and craft. Couturiers demonstrate the art of haute couture construction on a 24ft (7.3m) long work table while Niedermair's photos of the Houses' iconic profiles hang on the 60ft (18.25m) long 'Silhouette Wall.'

Located in the former mid 20c Chase Manhattan bank by SOM (1961), the space echoes Christian Dior's vision of urbane life.

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