{"id":255,"date":"2010-10-14T12:13:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2011-03-10T13:16:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T18:16:08","slug":"clouds-heard-and-felt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/archives\/255","title":{"rendered":"Clouds, heard and felt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most people are familiar with the typical fabric-wrapped wall panels and acoustical ceiling tiles that absorb sound and echo in office environments\u2014and may also be familiar with the reverberant, unintelligible character of a room without these absorptive treatments.\u00a0 However, the same absorption can always be provided in less traditional forms, delivering world-class design that just happens to have acoustic benefit as well.<\/p>\n

In search of this sort of innovation on a recent visit to Copenhagen, we stopped by the Dansk Design Center<\/a>, a museum and gallery showcasing the best in Danish industrial, product, and graphic design.\u00a0 On display among the winners of the 2010\/11 Danish Design Prize was a product called Clouds<\/a>, produced by Kvadrat A\/S<\/a> and designed by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec<\/a>.\u00a0 The product is a modular system of 2-D felt panels that are joined with rubber bands at the edges to form complex, striking 3-D surfaces and volumes.\u00a0 The resulting felt sculptures can be fixed to walls, hung from ceilings, or form room dividers on their own.<\/p>\n

\"Felt<\/p>\n

Acoustically, felt is an effective absorber of high-frequency sound, and by trapping substantial air spaces within or behind the overall surface, low- and mid-frequency absorption is possible as well.\u00a0 Products like this allow the acoustic treatment to form an attractive centerpiece to a space’s visual aesthetic, rather than blending into the background!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people are familiar with the typical fabric-wrapped wall panels and acoustical ceiling tiles that absorb sound and echo in office environments\u2014and may also be familiar with the reverberant, unintelligible character of a room without these absorptive treatments.\u00a0 However, the same absorption can always be provided in less traditional forms, delivering world-class design that just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[34,45,27],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-absorption","tag-art","tag-finishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}