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Underwater dream: Wanda Barcelona for Zara Home grand opening in Zurich

After the launch of Zara Home’s biggest store in the world and last year’s Milan Design Week window displays, Wanda Barcelona consolidate the collaboration with Zara Home with another daring project: bringing an underwater fantasy into the heart of the Swiss Alps.

With an impressive 600 square metres store located over three floors on the famed Bahnhofstrasse,  the grand opening of Zara Home’s third Swiss store called for an outstanding installation.

Inspired by the SS17 collection, Wanda Barcelona immersed the building facade into a paper sea landscape, creating a stark yet elegantly beautiful contrast with the surrounding environment.

500 white corals of different sizes and genre delicately grew out of stone slabs and metal structure, as it would normally do in Switzerland.  To balance form and function, Wanda Barcelona selected a 100% waterproof Japanese paper normally used for scuba maps, which guarantees a premium finish as well as an excellent performance in case of adverse weather conditions, quite common in this period of the year.

The installation, which required twenty hours to be rigged, was on display for a week and marks another outstanding creation worth of the Studio’s motto “Paper Dreams”.

See more of Wanda Barcelona’s work here.