The Green Cathedral by Monamour Natural Design
Location: ephemeral Project for the XX Casa Decor anniversary
Area: Madrid
Completion Date: 2012
Landscape Design: Claudia Bonollo
Photographer: Philippe Imbault
“ORGANIQUES” Patronage and under the auspices of: “L’émoi du design”, Institute français, Central del diseño Dimad, French Ambassade.
The Green Cathedral is a tribute to Nature.
When we were selected to create the new auditorium in the XX Edition of Casa Decor, we decided to take the chance of following a dream: create an ephemeral but multi-sensorial organic architecture. It had to attempt to recalibrate the senses and reconsider time. It had to celebrate the joy of natural life. It had to be open to everyone.
The Green Cathedral was a place, a series of places, a philosophy, a feeling, a mind-set, a movement, a contemplative space. During the period of The International Fair, the Green cathedral has become a location for conferences, workshops and seminars, presentations and meetings of all kinds.
Thanks to the collaboration with the architect and artist Claudia Bonollo, Monamour Natural Design has created an exclusive research brand that embodies natural and organic elements with an almost endless array of combinations.
These experimentations are meant to innovate the use of the “green” and its languages, exploring the limits of the materials in use.
The Green Cathedral also represents a tribute to the human being: in the rose windows for example Claudia Bonollo created 7 semi-transparent digital images which were cartographies of the human body: human cells in the act of blooming.
Monamour Natural Design has always had a keen interest in research and innovation; each project becomes a unique piece which combines art, design and architecture with nature. “Green” is not only a mere decorative element for indoor landscapes but it is turned into a multi-purpose organic installation that can be adapted to different and various functions, for the joy of our prospective customers.
designed by Claudia Bonollo for Monamour Natural Design
THE GREEN CATHEDRAL
Double-face 25 square meters screen (5 x 5 m) designed by Claudia Bonollo for Monamour Natural Design, which separates the showroom from the Auditorium of Casa Decor.
Side A
Composition of 29 coloured modular moss pieces, a tribute to Johanes Itten and the Bauhaus.
Double-face 25 square meters screen (5 x 5 m) designed by Claudia Bonollo for Monamour Natural Design, which separates the showroom from the Auditorium of Casa Decor.
Side B
Composition of 29 modular gardens “The Natural Collection with natural preserved plants”.
Custom-made modular organic compositions of flat moss and moss ball, and a wide variety of preserved plants, that change according to the project, the space and/or sensitivity and customer tastes: ferns, eucalyptus, amaranthus, ivy, etc. in order to achieve the desired three-dimensional and natural effect.
“The Exclusive Collection” (In the corridor of the Cathedral):
- “Blue Light Box”,
- “The Cosmic Garden”,
- “11. Tai, The I Ching Symbol”,
- “Rosa di Maggio (May Rose)”
“The Exclusive Collection” – the organic artwork serie by Claudia Bonollo for Monamour Natural Design – is made with natural preserved plants.
Beyond its usual production, from its very early stages, Monamour Natural Design has developed and created unique works of art, small limited numbered collections between nature and art.
We compose gardens adapted to the installation’s spaces combining the colours with their spatial context, in harmony with the environment.
What it always interested us is a multimedia installation, the architecture as a possibility to construct sensitive spaces that assemble natural, artistic and sensorial elements. Our work consists in converting space into something more, a sensitive place. It’s not simply filling spaces with green, but giving them a real content. Our green spaces reinforce contemplation, soothe your soul and develop feelings of well-being. We create very different environments using our imagination and organic material, warm and sensual sites, thematic spaces, dream worlds.
“Monamour Natural Design products are nature itself, in all its splendour, energy and vitality of inhabitable spaces. Edited by Denis Broduriès and designed by Claudia Bonollo, they offer a wide-array of artistic applications, made with moss, ferns and leaves, travelling across natural and primitive spaces…” Marcelo Leslabay, contemporary design critic
GOING GREEN with Vertical Landscapes
edited by Vo Tong and Takashi Niwa
Images Publishing, Honk Hong, 2018
CLAUDIA BONOLLO ATELIER 
