Table Of ContentTEXTILE
TECHNOLOGY
AND DESIGN
TEXTILE
TECHNOLOGY
AND DESIGN
From Interior Space to Outer Space
EDITED BY
DEBORAH SCHNEIDERMAN
AND ALEXA GRIFFITH WINTON
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Textile technology and design : from interior space to outer space / edited by Deborah
Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4725-2880-3 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4725-2375-4 (paperback) 1. Textile fabrics.
2. Industrial equipment--Materials. 3. Textile fabrics in interior decoration. I. Schneiderman,
Deborah, 1968- II. Winton, Alexa Griffith.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations viii
Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xvi
Foreword by Susan Yelavich xvii
Introduction 1
Alexa Griffith Winton and Deborah Schneiderman
PART ONE TEXTILE: PLIABLE PLANES, INTERIOR
APPLICATIONS, AND FABRICATIONS
7
1 Interstitial Threads: The Body, Textiles, and Interiority in
Contemporary Interior Design 9
Alexa Griffith Winton
2 Soft Spaces: From the Textile-clad Interior to Modern
Interior Design 17
Anca I. Lasc
3 Felt and the Emerging Interior 31
Helene Renard
4 Tailoring Second and Third Skins 45
Lois Weinthal
5 Interview with Carol Bove 57
Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton
vI CONTENTS
PART TWO MECHANICAL AND DIGITAL INNOvATION IN
THE INTERIOR REALM
65
6 Ulterior Motives 67
Sarah Strauss
7 Topically Embedded: Surface as Graphic Material 73
Igor Siddiqui
8 Materializing the Digital Realm: Textile of the Modern Age 85
Jonathon Anderson and Laura Schoenthaler
9 Bespoke: Tailoring the Mass-produced Prefabricated Interior 95
Deborah Schneiderman
10 Sensorial Space: Responsive Interiors through Smart Textiles 109
Margarita Benitez
11 Self-actuated Textiles, Interconnectivity, and the Design of the
Home as a More Sustainable Timescape 121
Aurélie Mossé
12 Interview with Charlie Morrow: Sound Environment Design 135
Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton
PART THREE EXTREME ENvIRONMENTS AND
OUTER SPACE
143
13 Design for Extreme Environments Project [DEEP]: A Case Study
of Innovations in Mediating Adverse Conditions on the Human
Body 145
Brian F. Davies
CONTENTS vII
14 Design for Confinement: The Art and Science of Sensory
Deprivation in Space 157
Evan Twyford
15 Fabrics for Space Travel 171
Evelyne Orndoff
16 The Role of Soft Materials in the Design of Extreme Interior
Environments for Space Exploration 181
Larry Toups, Matthew Simon, Robert Howard, and A. Scott Howe
17 Interview with Charles Camarda 191
Deborah Schneiderman and Alexa Griffith Winton
Index 197
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Plates
1 Numen/For Use, Tape Paris, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2014.
2 Loop.pH, Algae Curtain, Lille, France, 2012.
3 A RO, felt-wrapped stair at Knoll Showroom, New York, 2013.
4 D o Ho Suh, The Perfect Home II (detail), 2003.
5 Carol Bove, Caterpillar, 2012.
6 Channel Splitting Simulates Depth, Sarah Strauss.
7 Bloom, Sarah Strauss. Original pattern by LuzElena Wood.
8 Swamped, Sarah Strauss. Original pattern by Rachel Ben-Zadok.
9 Falls, Sarah Strauss. Original pattern by Niketa Shah.
10 I SSSStudio + deSc, Zigzag, view from exterior (2013).
11 J enny Sabin Studio, Branching Morphogenesis, LabStudio, 2008; Jenny E.
Sabin, Andrew Lucia, Peter Lloyd Jones; originally on view at the Design and
Computation Gallery, SIGGRAPH 2008 and subsequently at Ars Electronica, Linz,
Austria, 2009–10.
12 Sawdust screen designed by Emerging Objects, a subsidiary of Rael San Fratello.
13 Kinematics Dress, 2014. Designed by Nervous System.
14 100 Electronic Years.
15 Aurélie Mossé, Reef, detail (2011).
16 I ndividual components of CASiTA readied for assembly. One-inch plywood
skeleton components with Tyvek roof and skin.
17 I nterior view of Skylab. The interior of spacecraft can be disorienting, and requires
the use of orientation cues and translation guides for crew to navigate.
18 TransHab.
19 Advanced Inflatable Airlock.
20 S leeping bag in crew quarters lined with textiles, cargo transfer bag, astronaut
clothing, contingency water container. Also, cargo transfer bags in M-bags
strapped down with woven fabric straps, astronaut EVA suit.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX
Figures
1.1 N umen/For Use, interior, Net Blow Up Yokohama, Japan, 2013. 13
1.2 Loop.pH, Atmeture, Letchworth, UK, 2014. 15
2.1 D ésiré Guilmard, “Intérieur de Boudoir” [“Boudoir Interior”], Lith.
Destouches, in D. Guilmard, Le Garde-Meuble Ancien et Moderne:
Collection de Tentures 113, no. 327 (c.1862). 21
2.2 C élestin-François-Louis Gosse, “Boudoir (Style Louis XVI),” Héliogravure
J. et A. Lemercier, in César Daly, “Boudoir et cabinet de travail par
M. Gosse, architecte-décorateur,” Revue Générale de l’Architecture et
des Travaux Publics 4, no. 13 (1886): 186, Plate 55. 23
2.3 Alexandre Sandier, “Salon, côté de la bibliothèque,” in “La Maison
moderne VII: Le Salon (fin),” Revue illustrée 2, no. 18 (June–December
1886): 623–27. 25
2.4 A lexandre Sandier, “Salon – Coin du Salon,” Héliotypie E. le Deley, in
Alexandre Sandier, Études d’architecture décorative (Paris: Armand
Guérinet, c. 1908), Plate 26. 26
2.5 A nonymous, “Salon Oriental,” in Grands Magasins de la Place Clichy,
[Catalogue: Exposition de tapis] (Paris: c. 1898). 27
3.1 F ilzFelt DNA diagram by Ayse Birsel. 37
3.2 F ilzFelt Polka 120 Light Drapery. 39
3.3 Detail of Submaterial wall panel 067. 40
4.1 Back of Hand, in The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a
Satellite by James Nasmyth and James Carpenter, 1874, Plate II. 47
4.2 Shriveled Apple, in The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a
Satellite by James Nasmyth and James Carpenter, 1874, Plate III. 48
4.3 Arktura Ricami Dining Table. 53
4.4 A telier Manferdini, Cherry Blossom Collection, Spring Summer 2007. 54
5.1 Carol Bove, Flora’s Garden II, in the exhibit RA, or Why is an orange like
a bell? Maccarone, New York, 2012. 58
5.2 Carol Bove, Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring,
Camden Arts Centre, 2007–8. Setting for A. Pomodoro, 2006. 60
5.3 S tudio view, 2013. Including (from L to R): The WhiteTubular Glyph,
2012; Chesed, 2013; Terma, 2013; Ra, 2013. 62
7.1 I SSSStudio + deSc, Zigzag (2013), view from interior. 77
7.2 ISSSStudio, Tessellated Floorscape (2010). 78
7.3 ISSSStudio, Millefleur (2013). 80
7.4 I SSSStudio + PATH, Bayou-luminescence (2011). 81
7.5 ISSSStudio, Protoplastic (2014). 82
8.1 bitMAPS (2009). 87
8.2 Hylozoic Soil, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, 2007. 89
8.3 modularArt, Crush, 2009. 92
