Light Scars シアーカーテン by Ruth Bachrach is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 鉄賞 in 家具デザイン Competition Category.
鉄家具· 2022
Light Scars シアーカーテン
Client: Ruth Bachrach
A' Design Award 鉄賞 Winner in 家具 Category
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About Light Scars シアーカーテン
「Light Scars」は、レーザーカットを施したポリエステル生地によるシアーカーテンのシリーズである。文字は専用に設計された書体でカットされており、可読性を保ちながらも生地の強度が損なわれないよう配慮されている。日差しがカーテンを透過すると、言葉が室内に投影され、一日の時間の移ろいや季節の変化とともにその姿を変えていく。書体は英語、ヘブライ語、アラビア語、日本語に対応。オンデマンド製品プラットフォームを通じて、顧客はパーソナルな仕様を依頼したり、自ら選んだテキストを指定したりできる。生地は軽量で、紫外線に強く、洗濯もアイロン掛けも可能である。
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award 鉄賞
Light Scars シアーカーテンは、よく設計された創造物に期待される専門的・産業的要件を満たす優れたデザインに授与される、権威ある評価である A' Design Award 鉄賞の受賞作品です。鉄賞の受賞作品は、制作者の高い技量、高度な専門性、専門家としての理解、創造的な能力を示しています。Light Scars シアーカーテンは、高く評価され、称賛され、愛される、実用的で革新的な創造物であることが期待されます。この A' Design Award 鉄賞を受賞したデザインは、業界のベストプラクティスを統合し、ノウハウと才能に結びついた有能な技術的特性を備えています。Light Scars シアーカーテンは、その徹底ぶりで尊敬され、世界をより良い場所にするための生活の質の向上をもたらすよう設計されています。
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Ruth's Light Scars is a simple and elegant application of laser cutting technique applied to carefully selected fabrics with a unique designed font which enables the text to be clear yet keeps the strength of the sheers.
Ruth is developing this technique to make it easily available to end-consumers (through a Product-on-Demand application) and interior designers. The user-dweller will be able to use chose their own texts (from poetry to prenup) and apply it in their own space. Ruth develops English, Japanese and Arabic fonts and different fabrics.
This design brings together words, time, space and light in a unique, intimate and personal way. Transcending and merging indoors and outdoors space and the dweller who is a witness and a participant. Our mind and memory are constructed by our personal and collective narrative. Words remind us who we are. Commemorate. Words become a prophecy. Words change their meaning and impact through time. Light, sight, insights change our perception. - Dimensions & Packaging
- This technique and font can be adjusted for personal end-consumer use and for a specific project design. Original design is 3600 x 3200 X 0.1 mm.
- Tags
- Light, curtains, POD, text
- Production Technology
- polyester fabric / Own designed Font / Laser cutting
Available fonts in Hebrew, English, Japanese and Arabic. - Design Challenge
- Ruth challenge was to capture time, space, meaning & love. She intended to transcendent the personal narrative of the end-user into a physical sensation, encapsulated in an ornamental as well as a useful object.
- Research
- Ruth searched for a suitable fabric which can be used with laser technique. The fabric is light, strong, and UV resistant as well. It can be cleaned and ironed.
Ruth designed a font which can be cut out of the fabric, keeping the fabric strong enough not to tear and the text easy to read.
Another Ruth searched the applications of motives in fabrics as a medium to tell and pass through the personal and collective narrative. Light Scars is inspired by the use of written word in architecture as an ornamental and message-carrying element.
Another aspect is the use of written texts as an ornamental element in cultures and religions which forbid the use of images, as the Islam and Judaism.
Ruth was inspired by the use of light of Dutch painters of the 17th century as well. - Inspiration
- The main goal is to create both useful and decorative objects which celebrate the personal narrative of the end-consumer. Ruth suffers from ME/Long Covid. 90% of her time she is bedridden. Through the windows she watches her garden. Her Garden of Eden. The days and seasons pass. Light pours through the windows as the sun travels from east to west during the days and seasons, projecting ever moving text through the space. Moorish architecture - The Alhambra. Vermeer's Milk Maid - window, light, simple, daily gesture, attentive gaze, eternity captured. The Koran. The Song of Solomon: Devotion and the loss of the self. The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a midsummer day. The Persian poet Rumi.
- Project Duration
- This project was a part of installation-performance, to commemorate the previous dwellers of Ruth's apartment in Amsterdam, a Jewish family who was deported and murdered during WW II. This try out took place between March and July 2018.
Research and production started back in 2016 and are still in development. - Operation Flow
- The end-customer has two options. The first one is to assign Ruth to design their own personal version of Light Scars, which will meet their own needs, their space and with their chosen texts. The other option is a Product-on-Demand platform which is now being developed. The costumer will be able to design their own sheers, with the text of their choice, and it will be manufactured and sent to them.
Light Scars is currently available in English, Arabic, Japanese and Hebrew fonts. - Patents
- Copyrights belong to Ruth Bachrach, 2021
Trademark (2020) Ruth Bachrach - Team Members
- Ruth Bachrach - designer
- Image Credits
- Ruth Bachrach/Creator
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