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Happy 80th birthday, Landibank!

Burri

Backstage shot in a large photo studio with a garden bench in a white cove.
Lorenz Cugini and an assistant draw lines on a white floor.
Backstage shot in a large photo studio with a garden bench in a white cove.
Frédéric Dedelley draws an outline on a white floor
Backstage shot showing a detail on a monitor
Backstage shot in a large photo studio with a display of flowers and grass
Red bench with a flower bed, a gardener arranges the mulch
Lorenz_Cugini_Burri-Landibank_007.jpg
Backstage shot showing two men in front of a monitor
Studio shot of a red garden bench on a trompe-l'oeil cake made of gravel and flowers
Backstage shot in a large photo studio with a garden bench in a white cove.
Lorenz Cugini and an assistant draw lines on a white floor.
Backstage shot in a large photo studio with a garden bench in a white cove.
Frédéric Dedelley draws an outline on a white floor
Backstage shot showing a detail on a monitor
Backstage shot in a large photo studio with a display of flowers and grass
Red bench with a flower bed, a gardener arranges the mulch
Lorenz_Cugini_Burri-Landibank_007.jpg
Backstage shot showing two men in front of a monitor
Studio shot of a red garden bench on a trompe-l'oeil cake made of gravel and flowers

For the 80th birthday of the Swiss Landibank by Alfred Altherr and Charles Hoch, the manufacturer Burri - Public Elements wished for a celebratory image. So I suggested staging the Landibank on a huge trompe-l'oeil cake in the form of an ornamental garden.

In teamwork with Frédéric Dedelley, design, and Martin Stoecklin, graphics, this image was finally created in elaborate preparation and manual labour:

with wheelbarrows full of gravel, bark mulch, rolled turf, barberries and primeli flowers, the cake was constructed as an anamorphosis exactly from the camera's perspective.

Idea, set design and photography by me.

Project management

Frédéric Dedelley ↗

Graphics

Martin Stoecklin ↗