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Wallpaper:
RGB’ Animalia patterned wallpaper by Milanese collective Carnovsky for Janelli & Volpi consists of red, green and blue line drawings under white light, but reveals a different aspect or layer of the pattern under different shades of light.
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“The feeling of the ‘bodies’ of lamps around the house will recede and we will have, much more, the perception of light instead of lamps; the perception of an emotion instead of a body.”
Padding & Pattern. Designers have been increasingly softening hard objects with materials: making lamps out of paper, freshening older designs with upholstery or fur, fabricating lighting from crocheted yarn or textiles as Bertjan Pot did with his large, photo umbrella-like suspension lights for French label Moustache. Another Dutchman, Lambert Kamps, stuffs his Obese Objects chairs to a bumpy extreme. All good ideas for padding our lives, but there’s also another already familiar way to soften a room: with pattern. Interior designer David Alhadeff of New York’s Future Perfect Interiors (who also experiments lately with hand-made wall textures) is using much more wallpaper than ever: “Wallpaper has been on-trend for awhile,” he says, “In the past they wanted an accent thing, one wall in the bedroom, a wall behind the couch, but now clients want to see whole rooms done in wallpaper because wallpaper is very warm to live with.” Even the most traditional wallpaper manufacturers have been lightening up lately, but the most interesting patterns around? Athens-based collective 39.22 is bringing street art into the home, where it no doubt feels much less menacing. Recently, Milan’s Carnovsky have just come out with a paper based on the RGB color scale that reveals a different pattern under different shades of light while offering a baroque overlay of images under white light. |
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