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Designer Petra Blaisse discusses the dynamic environments -- interior, exhibition, and landscape -- her studio Inside Outside creates. Architectural and cultural context informs the use of flexible forms of architecture and spatial composition. Soft and pliable -- often living -- materials create movement and ever-changing effects, along with sound, light, climate and the effects of time.
Made possible by The Ethel S. Lerner Endowed Fund and co-sponsored by RISD Departments of Textiles, Interior Architecture, Architecture, and the RISD Museum.
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Petra Blaisse started her career at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Department of Applied Arts and continued on as a freelance exhibition designer and won distinction for her installations of architectural works. Gradually her focus shifted to the use of textiles, light and finishes in interior space and, at the same time, to the design of gardens and landscapes.
Blaisse founded Inside Outside in 1991 working in a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape and exhibition design with specialists of various disciplines. The studio works internationally, on projects of increasing technical sophistication, ambition and scale.
Blaisse has lectured and taught extensively in Europe, Asia and the United States. Her work has been included in numerous design and architecture exhibits internationally. In 2000 a solo exhibition on Inside Outside's work was organized at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Soho, New York, for which Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom created Blaisse's first publication, the "Movements, 25%" catalogue. The first monograph on the work of Petra Blaisse / Inside Outside designed by Irma Boom, has been published February 2007 by NAi Publishers and was reprinted by The Monacelli Press, a division of Random House Inc. New York, October 2009.