Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos has created a beautiful homage to Marie Antoinette, the infamous last French Queen with a lavishly decorated, bright pink helicopter.
Covered with fluffy ostrich feathers and sparkling crystals, “Lilicoptère” is the artist’s vision of what the fashionable queen will be riding in, if she is alive today.
“The carriage of Marie Antoinette if she were alive today would be a super wonderful heli. This is the transformation of tradition -- an old tradition into a new object.”
Part of her exhibition at the Palace of Versaille last year, this helicopter fit for a queen also boasts of an opulent interior that features “intricate woodworks, gildings and embroidered upholstery featuring Marie Antoinette's initials”.
[via Joana Vasconcelos]