FULL METAL BANQUET presents AWAKING
An installation by Éric Charles-Donatien for LCD Textiles

Within the baroque halls of Palazzo Litta, in the heart of Milan, a work is born from silence and metal. AWAKING is an artistic installation conceived by Éric Charles-Donatien, internationally renowned designer and feather specialist, in creative dialogue with the exceptional metallic textiles of LCD Textile Edition.

One material. A thousand forms. LCD’s metallic fabric — that improbable alloy of light and structure — is here deconstructed, decomposed, and reimagined. Éric Charles-Donatien shapes it as he has worked with feathers for thirty years: with patience, with intuition, and with the conviction that beauty is born from the repetition of gestures, and that today’s discarded material can become tomorrow’s object of contemplation.

“Like Nature itself, gestures repeat to create singularity and wonder.”

Upcycling is the work’s guiding thread. Each recovered fragment, each reworked filament carries the memory of its first life and the impulse toward a new existence. This fundamental principle — making something from nothing, elevating even waste into an element of contemplation — resonates directly with the Fuorisalone 2026 theme: Metamorphosis.

AWAKING evokes the symbolism of Woman as an ornamental force — her infinite patience, her ancestral relationship with matter and adornment. It conjures birds and feathers, Éric Charles-Donatien’s primary medium, whose nature offers an infinite variety of colors and textures. It weaves a dialogue between East and West, between the organic and the constructed, between a frozen scene and one in perpetual motion.

The great wave as a creator of chaos. The octopus leaving its habitat in a silent, weightless elegance. Nature reclaiming its territory when human time stands still. AWAKING is a poetic meditation on mutation, on the hybridization of the animal and the vegetal, and on the strange beauty that emerges when two universes — feather and metal — choose to become one.

Installed in the history-laden rooms of Palazzo Litta, a jewel of Lombard Baroque, the work enters into dialogue with the architecture that holds it. The contemporary answers the ancient. Artisanal excellence echoes historic ornament. The ephemeral speaks to the permanent.

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