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Tying It All Together: An Architectural Weave at ICFFDesign and architecture are constantly woven together in everyday life, but here's one case where they will be bound together literally: the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's installation at the upcoming 17th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF--which will be held in New York from May 14-19).
At this year's ICFF--the enormous, international, furniture-focused design show held yearly at New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center--six design schools will present projects in a competition, judged by editors from design publications.
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects is one of the participants in the competition, and its 200-foot-long entry, called "collective_diff erence," will weave together objects, products and architecture. The exhibit will contain containers of DuPont Tyvek bags and injection-molded card clips--woven together by ribbons--which visitors will be allowed to remove at will. The object is to show a continual transformation in the space's architecture, highlighting the relationship between designed objects and the environment. (By the end of the fair, most of it should be gone, carted away by rabid ICFF-goers.)
The woven theme is meant to emphasize the importance of "collective difference," in the f
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