OverLap Blinds – observations about natural materials in a man made environment

The blinds were a projects done for the Multipli-city exhibition. They were inspired and created for London.

I have venetian slat blinds in the front of my house and an overlap timber fence in the back. These are the only bits of real wood visible in the entire house.

The timber fence is made of particularly rough timber; the planks are not even trimmed so they still have the outline of the tree section. You can tell which planks were once one tree.

The Overlap blinds touch on this issue of natural materials in a fabricated environment. One of them is made of a natural branch of horsechastnut sawn into thin slats and the other is laser cut ply.

The natural timber has an industrial process applied to it and the inaudstrial ply is made to mimic a netural contour.