{"id":537557,"date":"2010-04-21T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/21\/bmw-5-series-gran-turismo-gets-artsy-with-patricia-urquiola-and\/"},"modified":"2010-04-21T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T13:59:00","slug":"bmw-5-series-gran-turismo-gets-artsy-with-patricia-urquiola-and-giulio-ridolfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/537557","title":{"rendered":"BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo gets artsy with Patricia Urquiola and Giulio Ridolfo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/crossovers-cuvs\/\" rel=\"tag\">Crossover<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/hatchbacks\/\" rel=\"tag\">Hatchback<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/bmw\/\" rel=\"tag\">BMW<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/design-style\/\" rel=\"tag\">Design\/Style<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/luxury\/\" rel=\"tag\">Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/the-dwelling-lab\/#2911741\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/02-dwelling-630.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>The Dwelling Lab &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s safe to say you won&#8217;t be seeing this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/bmw\/\">BMW<\/a> art car lapping Sarthe any time soon. The Bavarian automaker teamed up with textiles manufacturer Kvadrat and Flos to create &#8220;The Dwelling Lab&#8221; &#8211; a design installation. The brain child of <strike>artists<\/strike> designers (<em>Thanks, Lorenzo!<\/em>) Patricia Urquiola and Guilio Ridolfo, the exercise was designed to strut both BMW&#8217;s and Kvadrat and Flos&#8217; commitments to creativity. Or something.<\/p>\n<p>We won&#8217;t pretend to be art critics, so we&#8217;ll avoid strutting our ignorance by throwing judgment against the fabric-covered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/5+series+gt\">5-Series Gran Turismo<\/a>. Instead, we&#8217;ll do our best to describe the piece and let you do the judging for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Urquiola wanted to draw the viewer&#8217;s focus to the interior of the car, so she created the massive fabric cones called &#8220;diamonds&#8221; to pull your look inward. Sure enough, it&#8217;s effective. You can&#8217;t help but look toward the car&#8217;s cloth-swaddled guts. The piece will be on display during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, held in Milan all this month. You&#8217;ll find the press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/21\/bmw-5-series-gran-turismo-gets-artsy-with-patricia-urquiola-and\/#continued\">after the jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/the-dwelling-lab\/low\/\">The Dwelling Lab<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/the-dwelling-lab\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/13-dwelling_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/the-dwelling-lab\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/01-dwelling_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/the-dwelling-lab\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/02-dwelling_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/the-dwelling-lab\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/03-dwelling_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/the-dwelling-lab\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/04-dwelling_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: BMW]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/21\/bmw-5-series-gran-turismo-gets-artsy-with-patricia-urquiola-and\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo gets artsy with Patricia Urquiola and Giulio Ridolfo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/21\/bmw-5-series-gran-turismo-gets-artsy-with-patricia-urquiola-and\/\">BMW 5 Series Gran Turismo gets artsy with Patricia Urquiola and Giulio Ridolfo<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:59:00 EST.  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The Bavarian automaker teamed up with textiles manufacturer Kvadrat and Flos to create &#8220;The Dwelling Lab&#8221; &#8211; a design installation. 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