Recent design showcases, such as Milan Design Week and NYCxDesign, highlight a shift towards theatricality among designers. Exhibitions featured dramatic installations, like Dimoremilano's noir-themed piece, while others incorporated luxurious fabrics and green draping to enhance ambiance. Designers are reinventing traditional drapery, merging old-world charm with contemporary styles. For instance, Christine Gachot's redesign of the Met Opera lounge showcases art deco silks, while Lee Broom's trompe l'oeil wallpaper blurs the boundaries between architectural surfaces and textile designs, transforming rooms into spaces of unexpected depth and intrigue.
Curtains, of course, are natural design elements for spaces devoted to performance. Lately, designers are expanding the cast of fabrics past the usual velvet vernacular.
'The illusion of drapery in wallpaper creates a kind of quiet theater on the walls-something unexpected,' Broom says. 'It blurs the line between surface and design, allowing a room to feel expansive.'
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