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Fabric mesh allows for visitors to have a sense of the exhibition as a whole while maintaining the installation's substantial scale.
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Overall view of the double X-wall assemblies.
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Double X-wall displays create a ephemeral, yet formal/monumental context for the Albright collection.
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The X-walls break down the scale of the collection in parts, defining pockets of space, or informal rooms, against the gallery's perimeter.
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Simple wood frames, covered with a translucent fabric mesh, help maintain a sense of the space as a whole, even as the walls break-down the gallery into eight parts.
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Fabric mesh allows for visitors to have a sense of the exhibition as a whole while maintaining the installation's substantial scale.
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Detail of R+L's display cabinet housing the Museum of Arts & Design's traveling display panels.

READ MY PINS

Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

Proposal 2014
Project 2014
Completion 2014

Organized by the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, consists over over 200 of the former Secretary of State's pins. R+L designed the exhibition for the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, organizing the collection into two luminous X-wall displays that distinguish between pins of personal value and those which Albright used as diplomatic tools - often with with wit and verve - during her tenure as Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration.

The double X-walls are wrapped in a fabric mesh and serve as structural armatures supporting 8 color-coded wood display cases. The translucent character of the frame-walls allow the installation to be viewed as a whole with a lightness that balances the it's substantial scale.

Rice+Lipka Architects
Principals: Lyn Rice & Astrid Lipka
Project Team: Rachel Kim, Alexander Crean

Graphics: Rice+Lipka Architects