“我希望能够通过创造另一种风格的公共艺术来再次让人们展露笑容。这次，我设计了公共长椅，让人们在植物和地毯的环绕中感到宾至如归。我想创建一个大家可以聚集、欣赏周围环境并享受城市的场所。我喜欢将趣味元素带入街道的想法，把色彩和快乐编织进有时缺乏这两样的城市。” —— 卡米耶·瓦拉拉（Camille Walala）

2019年伦敦设计节标志着卡米耶·瓦拉拉为丰富城市空间这一使命进入了一个新的阶段，整个伦敦梅菲尔区的一条街道被改造成了一间生动多彩的城市客厅。

South Molton Street是一条位于牛津街旁受欢迎的200米长的购物街，街道两旁是精品店和咖啡馆，但这里一直缺乏公共座椅。为了创建既具艺术冲击力又实用价值的装置，工作室开发了一系列雕塑般的街头家具——包括10个独特的长椅和花盆，并用特别设计的彩旗装饰整条街道。

这条街道变成了一个沉浸式的彩色走廊，配有雕塑长椅，将卡米耶标志性的壁画明亮的色彩调色板和大胆图案以引人注目的三维形式呈现出来。

设计成如同露天客厅一般的Walala Lounge创造了一个鲜明的避风港，提升了周围的都市环境，同时给过往行人带来了积极的影响——邀请他们停下脚步，深呼吸，与自己和他人建立联系。

《Walala Lounge》不仅仅是一个临时的装置，它被委托作为半永久性的街头景观添加。它将一直保留到2021年，并且——如果一切顺利的话——还会更久。

Walala Lounge

“I wanted to push myself by creating another style of public art to make people smile again.This time I have designed public benches, where people can feel at home, surrounded by plants and rugs. I want to create a place where people can gather, appreciate their surroundings and enjoy the city. I love the idea of bringing an element of fun to the street, weaving colour and joy into a city which is sometimes lacking in both.”  – Camille Walala

London Design Festival 2019 marked a new stage in Camille Walala’ s ongoing mission to enrich city spaces, as it saw the transformation of an entire street in London’s Mayfair into a vividly colourful urban living room.

Lined with boutiques and cafés, South Molton Street is a popular 200m thoroughfare off Oxford Street that suffered from a lack of public seating. Determined to create an installation with both artistic impact and practical value, the studio responded by developing a family of sculptural street furniture – including 10 unique benches and planters – and festooning the street with strings of specially designed bunting.

The street became an immersive corridor of colour, complete with sculptural benches that brought the bright colour palettes and bold patterns of Camille’s distinctive murals into striking three-dimensional form.

Designed to feel like an open-air living room, Walala Lounge created a vivid sanctuary that uplifted the surrounding urban environment while bringing positivity to the passing public – inviting them to take a moment to stop, breath and connect with themselves and each other.

More than just a LDF installation, Walala Lounge was commissioned to be a semi-permanent addition to the streetscape. It is set to remain in place until 2021, and – fingers crossed – beyond.