Raúl Àvila designs Met Gala carpet as hand-painted stone garden pathway
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Updated · Vogue · May 4
Raúl Àvila designs Met Gala carpet as hand-painted stone garden pathway
5 articles · Updated · Vogue · May 4
For the 2026 event, the tan-and-moss-green carpet at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art evokes a Northern Italian garden, with Baz Luhrmann and Derek McLane on the design team.
Wisteria lines the tent’s ceiling and walls, extending a romantic Renaissance-inspired setting intended to immerse guests and frame fashion as wearable art.
The decor aligns with the Costume Institute’s “Costume Art” theme and the debut of the new Condé M. Nast Galleries, whose opening show spans most of the museum’s 19 collecting areas.
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