Faced with romantic and grandiose visions of nature, Paul Klee focused his attention on the fragility and levity of a flower, or in this case a young plant; a palm tree.

He conceived the top as a chessboard with nine superimposed elements, in the way of the intricate skeleton of a radiolarian. The German biologist Ernst Haekel produced an extraordinary series of drawings of these protozoa that greatly influenced Klee. Another influence was art professor and photographer Karl Blossfeldt who used photographs of plants to prove to his students how nature anticipated the greatest solutions of engineering and industrial design.

In Klee’s case nature guided evolution and spiritual growth, much like the famous blue flower in Heinrich von Ofterdingen by Novalis.

Conversely, the space surrounding the palm tree has been distributed in colored bands that generate transitions as if they were a musical eco.