At this year’s interior design show, IDS12, the entranceway installation featured a dramatic curtain comprised of more than 1,300 individual strips of felt, doubling as a canvas for interactive digital projections. Dubbed StripTease, it was designed by RAW, a Toronto architecture studio, in collaboration with industrial designer Mark Tholen.
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At this year’s interior design show, IDS12, the entranceway installation featured a dramatic curtain comprised of more than 1,300 individual strips of felt, doubling as a canvas for interactive digital projections.
The 3,700 lbs installation, dubbed StripTease, was designed by RAW, one of Toronto’s fastest growing architecture studios, in collaboration with industrial designer Mark Tholen.
Striptease is the result of a mass collaboration between some unlikely partners that also included The Felt Store, Christie Digital Systems Canada Inc., GestureTek Inc. and Acid Integrations.
While architects work in a digital, virtual world, the materials they use are prosaic; bricks mortar and concrete.
Felt expert and industrial designer Tholen and The Felt Store were vital to the installation, says Roland Rom Colthoff, RAW principal architect
On the show floor, visitors were invited to interact with the felt canvas in the MicroTiles environment. Using camera’s to capture show-goers, partners GestureTek Inc. and Acid Integrations developed content that allows the public to sweep away images, revealing themselves on the dramatic two-storey felt screen.
The interior design show took place Jan. 26 to 29.
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