If you happened to stroll down New Bond Street today, you would have noticed the glimmering new installation in Fendi‘s Mayfair maison window, for the Luxury Italian fashion house have tapped UK-based artist Chris Wood for a special collaboration. Here, we bring you the exclusive behind-the-scenes images of Wood creating the epic pieces.

Titled, Hues of Light, Wood’s bespoke pieces, created in dichroic (meaning ‘two colour’), form geometric kaleidoscopic mandalas that alter in different lights (with the London sun currently on full whack, it’s ultimate timing). This ability for a material to take on different forms is one which resonates with Fendi’s design ethos –you only have to think back to the house’s SS17 collection, where pieces came reversible and with hidden fur detailing.

“My work is a continual exploration of light and it never fails to surprise me,” says Wood. “I often create work for specific places with specific needs and I always begin with the light. I make a physical model to look at how the light works in the space. For the Fendi windows project I did the same for each window and particularly looked at how the light will work in those windows during the summer.”

Gallery: the making of Chris Wood's 'Hues of Light'

The installation will later be presented in FENDI stores across Paris, New York, Milan and Florence, where the works will take on different shapes, from portions of a circle in Paris and Milan, rectangles in London, to spirals in Florence or suspended rings in New York.

See Chris Wood’s Hues of Light at Fendi, 141 New Bond St, London.