Climate

RESEARCH BACKGROUND Climate was a novel collaboration between fashion and interior designers, and was commissioned by the major interior design company, Schiavello, working with Peter Geyer. S!X (Denise Sprynskyj and Peter Boyd), together with another fashion designer, Akira Isogawa, an architectural firm, LAVA Design, and the Italian textile and colour designer, Giulio Ridolfo, were commissioned to design a range of screens, to be incorporated into a new modular office furniture system. The screens serve as personalized yet functional dividers and storage systems. RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION For their range, S!X drew upon their extensive knowledge of tailoring, recycling and printing techniques to create screens that resembled garment pieces and fabrications, such as suiting and denim, zips and pockets. Some screens were designed to double as portable, detachable carry bags. The range investigated the relationship between fashion and interiors, the mutual influence of the form and material of fashion design and that of its furnished surroundings. In so doing it explored the meaning of interiority, in allowing an anonymous yet internal work space to be given character by a personal yet external wardrobe. RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE Schiavello is an Australian design company with a global reach, and the Climate range is available and sold internationally. The range has been reviewed in Artichoke, Inside, Frame, and DQ, and was presented at the launch of Saturday in Design in Singapore in May 2011. S!X were subsequently invited to create an installation in the window of the Schiavello Melbourne showroom in June 2011 to showcase the project. The installation was repeated for Saturday in Design in Sydney in August 2011. http://www.workclimate.com/