Showroom MAMA Rotterdam
In January 2008 MAMA (Media and Moving Art) in Rotterdam contacted the designers Demakersvan with the assignment to produce a customized Lace Fence for their new office at Kromme Elleboog 35.. Judith de Graauw from Demakersvan designed a varied and beautiful pattern for the five windows. MAMA chose for a galvanised iron Lace Fence where it is also to obtain in white.
Although
Lace Fence has earlier been installed as a separating wall in an office
building in Amsterdam and recently as a pergola in Milaan, this is the
first application to prevent burglary. Siebe Thissen (CBK Rotterdam) labelled
the work as an `public artwork related to security’.
The production of Lace Fence is manual; it was made in the factory which
Demakersvan set up in Bangalore, India, in 2007. Dutch firm De Melker
provided the heavy industrial frames, in which the Lace Fence is stretched.
