{"id":235296,"date":"2024-08-07T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=id_news&p=235296"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:54:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:54:47","slug":"silver-streaked-olympics-installation-matchpoint-by-india-mahdavi","status":"publish","type":"id_news","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/designwire\/silver-streaked-olympics-installation-matchpoint-by-india-mahdavi\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Active At India Mahdavi’s Paris Installation Inspired By The 2024 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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August 7, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Annie Block\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Benoit Floren\u00e7on<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Get Active At India Mahdavi’s Paris Installation Inspired By The 2024 Olympics<\/h1>\n\n\n

Rue Las Casas, <\/strong>in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, might as well be renamed India Mahdavi Boulevard. The Interior Design <\/em>Hall of Famer<\/a> runs three businesses there: her studio, furniture showroom, and Petits Objets shop. In 2020, she expanded her ecosystem to the intersecting Rue de Bellechasse with Project Room, a tidy 430-square-foot gallery where she produces quarterly exhibitions with fellow creatives\u2014past collaborators include Martine Bedin, Chris Wolston, and Les Crafties\u2014that represent a unique nexus of all her interests. \u201cIts scale is intimate enough yet big enough to express a concept,\u201d Mahdavi explains of the modern-day parlor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since she synchronizes the programming with city happenings, the summer show linked to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics: It was the first all-room installation, called Match Point<\/em>. When dreaming it up, Mahdavi invited designer Harry Nuriev to flesh out her vision, which resulted in a sporty, silver spectacle of an interactive ping-pong room. \u201cIt was Harry\u2019s idea to cover it all in reflective surfaces,\u201d Mahdavi says, \u201cgenerating a spatial mirroring from inside to out, and vice versa, which was the opposition I wanted to manifest.\u201d She\u2019s currently manifesting Criss Cross, her CC-Tapis<\/a> carpet collection that is a modern take on tartan and will be shown at Project Room in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Match Point<\/em>, by Crosby Studios founder Harry Nuriev, was an all-room installation at Project Room, India Mahdavi\u2019s Paris gallery that she programs with collaborative temporary exhibitions, in aluminum paneling, linoleum flooring, lam\u00e9 curtains, and a custom table and paddles that ran during the 2024 Summer Olympics. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n