Designer cakes by Viktor & Rolf, Studio Job and more served up during Design Miami
Design Miami 2014: cakes by designers including Viktor & Rolf, Studio Job and Alessandro Mendini were displayed and then eaten during an event hosted in Miami this week by New York gallery Chamber.
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Chamber, which opened in New York's Chelsea district earlier this year, commissioned six of its featured designers and studios to come up with an idea for a cake.
Alessandro Mendini, Martijn Van Strien, Floris Wubben, Viktor & Rolf, Studio Job and Formafantasma all created desserts for the event, hosted at Casa Claridge in Miami Beach on Tuesday evening.
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Their designs were realised by a team of cake makers including Antonella Tignanelli and Laila Gohar. "Most of the designers specified how they wanted their cakes to taste like," said Tignanelli.
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Belgian artists Studio Job – the curators of Chamber's inaugural collection – created a three-tiered cake decorated with pink, white and gold icing as well as silver embellishments. A large white candle on top was surrounded by small pink mounds dotted with red balls.
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The cake design previously featured as the wheel hub of a Land Rover Defender that the studio customised for the vehicle's 65th birthday last year.
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Three-dimensional geometric shapes, some in pastel colours, topped the simple white base of Formafantasma's design.
"The Studio Job cake was mostly pink and white on the outside so we made a strawberry and vanilla filling, and same with Formafantasma," Tignanelli said.
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Italian designer Alessandro Mendini grouped together six white-tipped conical towers, each with a red ball at the top.
"Mendini wanted the base to be tiramisu, and the towers to have candied almonds so we did that," explained Tignanelli.
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Viktor & Rolf's red-velvet dessert had a gold base patterned with swirls. The Dutch fashion duo stood a Rococo-influenced element on top, which supported a yin-yang symbol, a heart, a bow and finally a rainbow.
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Martijn Van Strien – another Dutch fashion designer who launched his own label in October – used folds of icing to drape over his monochrome creation.
"The Martijn Van Strien cake was a dark chocolate pedestal and then the structure was made out of Rice Krispies to be able to mould it," explained the cake maker.
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Finally, the cake by Dutch designer Floris Wubben was a stack of three cog-shaped cylinders of different heights and widths.
A milk chocolate layer formed the bottom portion, white chocolate was in the middle and dark chocolate covered the top.
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Guests were able to eat the cakes once they had been admired at the event, which took place during Design Miami – running until 7 December.