The city of Milan installs a dazzling LED light display portraying a cluster of outdoor clotheslines to celebrate Christmas.
As part of the 2010 Milan LED Light Festival that kicked off earlier this month and runs until mid-January, Italian designer Fabio Novembre created “Ieri, Oggi, Domani” (“Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow), a dazzling LED tribute to Italy’s cultural appreciation of clotheslines.
LEDs recreate the forms of clothes hanging on clotheslines, illuminating the street. A highly technical reproduction of a centuries-old practice, the work converses with the dialogue between tradition and modernity. Novembre likens the hanging forms to 'flags of a new italy, made of fashion, style, and the joy of life.'
