In his book Le Baron perché, Italo Calvino evokes over thirty species of tree, marking the author's strong link with botany. Writer and illustrator Pascale Favre drew inspiration from the Baron's life in the trees to create a tree-like graphic environment for the MRL's window displays.
Direct observation of plant species and their morphology was at the heart of the drawing workshops given by Pascale Favre and Alessandro Chidichimo at the Geneva Botanical Garden, as part of the Calvino a scuola project. A slideshow of these children's drawings is shown on the MRL screen.

Pascale Favre
Artist, interior designer and writer Pascale Favre was born in Geneva in 1970, where she lives and works. After graduating from the Beaux-arts and winning a prize from the Fonds cantonal d'art contemporain, she worked as an assistant in the drawing and painting studio at the Beaux-arts de Genève before receiving a grant and a residency in Cairo. Since her return, she has taught at the CFP ARTS in the passerelle | propédeutique art and design classes. Since 2006, she has been a committee member of éditions art&fiction, developing stage work through music and readings, and is a member of the experimental music group Wasistdas¿ Winner of the Alice Bailly scholarship in 2010, in 2014 she published a first novel and continued her research into the relationship between text and image.