Installation design

Slow Lens is the newest piece from French artist Vincent Leroy, who often explores optics and light in his large-scale installation work. The piece is suspended from above, and a network of curved, translucent lenses distorts the viewer’s perspective. Displayed en plein air, the connected lenses slowly rotate and ofter multiplied visions of the surrounding environment. Leroy installed and documented Slow Lens in various locations around Paris, including in highway lanes that were vacant due…

Chloe Ostmo - Mass MOCA - October 2012

the polymer veil represents an artistic, as well as an architectural gesture, as it follows no functional logic or form, but seems to be shaped by natural elements like the force of the wind or the flow of water.

Italian artist Massimo Uberti is renowned for his gravity-defying sculptural light installations that create secondary reality-altering 3D forms.

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As part of the 2019 London Design Festival, Paul Cocksedge’s ‘Please Be Seated’ has taken over Finsbury Avenue Square in the city’s Broadgate neighborhood. The undulating sculpture is comprised of concentric wooden circles that ribbon up and down to create functional spaces to socialize, rest, and walk through. Cocksedge collaborated with White & White to fabricate the massive steel and upcycled scaffolding wood installation, which the designer described as “walk[ing] the line between a…

See the nature-inspired works by Terri Chiao and Adam Frezza including window displays for Hermès and a stucco forest at Coachella.

Osaka, Japan-based Nobuhiro Nakanishi's mesmerizing body of work entitled Layered Drawings is truly breathtaking. He photographs a scene or object

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