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The Dutch architect Tom Postma has created an exciting location

Summary: The Dutch architect Tom Postma has created an exciting location for a radical re interpretation of jewel design a conceptual strictly minimalist and dark spatial installation It shrouds the extremely valuable and small exhibits in an appropriate aura constituting both setting and spiritual stage for them while also enabling active spatial experience and sensitization of the viewers Double walls become a poetic surface on which light fractures ingeniously infused with moving reflections Postma embeds water into these double walls and a pneumatic mechanism ensures the water moves gently As if in moonlight via reflective foils the water sheds shimmering light onto the dark skin of the interior The entire black box sized 10 x 10 meters floats apparently weightless at a height of 90 cm in the room which is 20 x 20 meters in size Ramps lead the visitor into the mysterious interior Inside the box 8 display cases grow out of the ground And 8 protrude towards them like stalactites from the ceiling These structures made of bullet proof glass constitute the only direct sources of light in the entire setting Interactive cameras record the gaze of the visitors and project them onto the exterior of the exhibition space The architecture creates a feeling of modernity in which the jewelry actively plays a part in the dialog with the visitors likewise interacting with the lighting Exhibition Myths Jewels Today seen by Stefan Hemmerle The Dutch architect Tom Postma has created an exciting location for a radical re interpretation of jewel design a conceptual strictly minimalist and dark spatial installation It shrouds the extremely valuable and small exhibits in an appropriate aura constituting both setting and spiritual stage for them while also enabling active spatial experience and sensitization of the viewers Double walls become a poetic surface on which light fractures ingeniously infused with moving reflections Postma embeds water into these double walls and a pneumatic mechanism ensures the water moves gently As if in moonlight via reflective foils the water sheds shimmering light onto the dark skin of the interior The entire black box sized 10 x 10 meters floats apparently weightless at a height of 90 cm in the room which is 20 x 20 meters in size Ramps lead the visitor into the mysterious interior Inside the box 8 display cases grow out of the ground And 8 protrude towards them like stalactites from the ceiling These structures made of bullet proof glass constitute the only direct sources of light in the entire setting Interactive cameras record the gaze of the visitors and project them onto the exterior of the exhibition space The architecture creates a feeling of modernity in which the jewelry actively plays a part in the dialog with the visitors likewise interacting with the lighting Exhibition Myths Jewels Today seen by Stefan Hemmerle

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