Design Center Lace Exhibit

The Design Center at Philadelphia University is preparing an exhibit all about new interpretations of lace to open next fall. I was lucky enough to be recommended by a friend to help out with one of the projects- creating a gigantic raffia lace curtain designed by Studio Tord Boontje. However, when I tried to complete my first raffia item today (one of thirty I have committed myself to make by April 1) I got a little frightened. So I search around the websites of Boontje and the other artists participating to get a little more inspiration. The others include:

Demakersvan's lovely lace chain link fence, which will be permanently erected along the driveway leading up to our design center

Cal Lane's work which is essentially any kind of old scrap iron with amazing lace cut into and out of it. items include wheelbarrows, oil drums, i-beams (which i desperately want in my life) and shovels

The curator also mentioned a studio which makes concrete coated in special chemicals that are only visible when wet- imagine waiting at a bus stop and as it starts to rain a lace pattern appears in the concrete below your feet! such lovely ideas, all of them...

images are: a Tord Boontje lamp, Demakersvan fence, and Cal Lane shovels