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Location: Tehran, Iran
Build: 1977-1978Illustration: Madalena Boavida Guerra‚ based on axonometric by Hans Hollein
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Hans Hollein’s solution for adapting a small 19th century palace into a museum of glass and ceramics, was to design a series of highly sculptural display cases – allowing preservation of the original interior fabric whilst adding his own highly distinctive signature to the building.
With their strong geometric vertical forms, looking like variations on abstracted columns, these polished stainless steel and chrome vitrines contrast strongly with the delicate interior plasterwork, with its mix of European Beaux-Art and Iranian detailing.
Through the design of these display cases, Hollein intended visitors to be “confronted emotionally by the objects and their quality as works of art”. Together they form an exhibition landscape, providing a dramaturgy through the collections, beginning outdoors with a single case embedded in a brick wall, leading inside to striking groupings of the free standing units, with other cases set into the parquet floors.
(rgw)Photo © Hans Hollein archive
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