Color Room
Textile, Digital, Art Direction
2019
Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh transformed a basement room into a so-called “Color Room”, for which Backhausen created 200 metres of fabric with modern patterns and vibrant colours, featuring 13 designs by the two designers, as one of the focal points of the exhibition. The luxurious, fine textiles give the room an impressive glow, which only reveals its unique aesthetics under the light of a sodium discharger lamp. Visitors to the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna can experience the power of colour and patterns through the switch from oppressive, uniform grey to illuminating polychrome.