{"id":104674,"date":"2017-02-28T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/fay-mccaul-and-kia-utzon-frank-create-interactive-screen-from-dichroic-rods-in-cotton\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:51:21","slug":"fay-mccaul-and-kia-utzon-frank-create-interactive-screen-from-dichroic-rods-in-cotton","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/fay-mccaul-and-kia-utzon-frank-create-interactive-screen-from-dichroic-rods-in-cotton\/","title":{"rendered":"Fay McCaul and Kia Utzon-Frank Create Interactive Screen From Dichroic Rods in Cotton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hosted by London’s Saatchi Gallery<\/a><\/span> and presented by the U.K.’s Crafts Council<\/a>, the Collect<\/a> contemporary-art fair has an experimental offshoot, Collect Open. And this year’s was decidedly female-focused: designer Faye Toogood<\/a> was the lead curator, and all but three of the 15 exhibitors were women. The largest installation, Curved Twist<\/em>, was by textile designer Fay McCaul<\/a> and industrial designer Kia Utzon-Frank<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Although we’re in different disciplines, we both work with light and transformation,” McCaul says. They combined their fields of expertise to laser-cut thousands of acrylic rods, wrap them in dichroic film, slip them into sleeves of knitted Italian cotton, and stack the results to form an 8-by-10-foot freestanding screen that was not only color-changing but also interactive. Visitors could slide a plastic mechanism, made from recycled yogurt containers, up and down to manipulate the rods. Utzon-Frank compares it to twisting a bamboo sushi mat.<\/p>\n

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The frame in extruded aluminum. Photography by Dunja Opalko.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n