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laila gohar spins a surreal carousel of fruits and vegetables for arket during milan design week

designboom | architecture & design magazine·kat barandy I designboom·about 1 month ago
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an 18th-century carousel reborn in milan At Milan Design Week 2026 , Laila Gohar presents her collaboration with ARKET through a public installation at Giardino delle Arti, where a reworked fairground carousel becomes the central device for introducing her first ready-to-wear collection. The installation takes the form of an antique carousel adapted from a rare late-18th-century model, its horses replaced by oversized fruits and vegetables. The shift is immediate and legible. Familiar objects are enlarged, displaced, and set into motion, turning a childhood structure into something closer to a staged environment for adults. Gohar’s work has long operated in this territory, using food as both material and image. Here, that language expands into space. The carousel rotates slowly, creating a continuous loop of repetition and variation, where scale and material alter perception without obscuring the source.…

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