At the Hussein Chalayan Design Museum exhibition they used some office-style vertical blinds link to break up the space in places and to kill the light spill between regions. Both black and sometimes white and sometimes both in layers, over a 3-4 metre drop and out of the context of the office they become a very appealing alternative to building walls.
Show designers Block Architecture explain in bdonline ..
For this, Chalayan’s first solo show in the UK, the main gallery has been divided into separate spaces around a central core, each showing a selection of dresses from past collections. The conceptual nature of Chalayan’s pieces makes for an intense show, with the small space crammed full of ideas. Block’s job was “to not over-design”, says Smith. “We pared down the materials to create more of a backdrop, with creative visual referencing to hold it.”
The double-height space is sectioned by tall, slatted curtains which move in the breeze and enable visitors to flow from room to room rather than feel hemmed in. These, and the pebble-like surface of quartz and marble, were ideas taken from an installation Block designed to show Chalayan’s summer collection at Mayfair’s Dover Street Market last year.
Plenty to note exhibition-wise here - tacky retro wallpaper overlayed with vinyl graphics, simple, clever graphics by Abake studio. Multi screen projection, backlit images split into process seperations on acetate to give them depth.
