Looking to add dimension and demarcation to your space? It’s screen time
Earlier this year, the Fondazione Prada in Milan hosted the exhibition Paraventi: Folding Screen s from the 17th to 21st Centuries, which traced a brief slice of the history of one of home decor’s most decadent accessories.
The folding screen – or dressing screen or privacy screen or room divider – is often one of the most beguiling and artistic pieces you can place in a home. The screens on view at the Fondazione Prada included works by Man Ray, Cy Twombly and Pablo Picasso, which all spoke to how these designs can be as fanciful as they are functional.
They can also be completely contemporary. In its winter group show, the tony Mayfair-based Gallery Fumi in London showcased a sumptuous screen crafted as a collaboration between designers Maria Bruun and Anne Dorthe Vester, and the artist Soren Bach. Made of oak, cowhide and polyester halyard , it was an elegant punctuation point in the minimalist space.
Crystal Westland, a former interior designer and owner of the decor boutique Avenue Daughter in Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighbourhood, says she scoops up antique privacy screens whenever she has the chance. “I like anything modular that can easily change a space,” she says of why she’s so into screens, highlighting that these pieces do wonders setting boundaries, but also enhance the beauty of both interiors and the great outdoors.
Nodding to the variety of screens on the market today, from a retro-future mirrored style designed by Sacha Lakic for Roche Bobois to House of Hackney’s opulent options to her store’s own found wares, Westland says that a privacy screen is the optimal backdrop for a chic corner vignette or even the top of your bed. As the options on the following page suggest, there is no hiding their versatility.Switch gears. Give your brain a workout and do today's Daily Cryptic Crossword.
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