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24-Hour Museum by AMO and Francesco Vezzoli via OMA. For the 24-Hour Museum, AMO collaborated with Prada and artist Francesco Vezzoli to transform the 1937 Palais d’Iéna into the venue for a social and architectural laboratory, featuring an opening night party, public and press tours, and visits by schoolchildren. AMO designed the mise-en-scene of the modernist pavilion, by Auguste Perret, using the various spaces to stage - and interrogate - the three types of museums spaces that are predominant today. 1. Experimental/contemporary A large pink neon cage turns the main space into a psychedelic concrete and metal nave. It hosts the majority of Vezzoli “statues” - foamboard classical figures with the faces of contemporary celebrities stuck on - and the gala dinner. 2. Classic/propagandistic The curved concrete stair features a single centerpiece “statue” in front of three huge red curtains. For the cocktails. 3. Forgotten/storage Inspired by inaccessible but precious museum archives, and located in a hidden part of the ground floor, this space - which AMO called the “Salon des Refusés” - is used as a small scale disco, accessible through a row of green velvet curtains.The result is an ephemeral “total museum” that hosts a sequence of rituals unfolding through the 24 hours.

24-Hour Museum by AMO and Francesco Vezzoli via OMA.

For the 24-Hour Museum, AMO collaborated with Prada and artist Francesco Vezzoli to transform the 1937 Palais d’Iéna into the venue for a social and architectural laboratory, featuring an opening night party, public and press tours, and visits by schoolchildren. AMO designed the mise-en-scene of the modernist pavilion, by Auguste Perret, using the various spaces to stage - and interrogate - the three types of museums spaces that are predominant today.

1. Experimental/contemporary

A large pink neon cage turns the main space into a psychedelic concrete and metal nave. It hosts the majority of Vezzoli “statues” - foamboard classical figures with the faces of contemporary celebrities stuck on - and the gala dinner.

2. Classic/propagandistic

The curved concrete stair features a single centerpiece “statue” in front of three huge red curtains. For the cocktails.

3. Forgotten/storage

Inspired by inaccessible but precious museum archives, and located in a hidden part of the ground floor, this space - which AMO called the “Salon des Refusés” - is used as a small scale disco, accessible through a row of green velvet curtains.The result is an ephemeral “total museum” that hosts a sequence of rituals unfolding through the 24 hours.

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