Museum, art gallery and luxury hotel owners, start licking your chops. That ambient mood lighting you've been looking for to set the tone is on its way and likely to turn your walls into works of art themselves.
Phillips recently announced plans to develop LED-illuminated wallpapers that absorb sound and glow in a palate of colors according to the user's specifications. Phillips is collaborating with Danish manufacturer, Kvadrat Soft Cells, whose customizable acoustic panels are flexible and capable of being tailor-fitted for a wide range of interiors. The panels are stretched onto an aluminum frame, providing the ideal amount of tension, regardless of fluctuations in temperature or humidity.
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"They can be rearranged and reupholstered to meet changing requirements, simply and quickly," Kvadrat Soft Cells' website says.
Phillips' LED-lighted wallpaper could provide designers with an array of options to conjure mood-inducing atmospheres like never before. For example, the changing of the panel's color could be be synced with an audio system that undulates to the music's rhythm. Because they're sound absorbent the Soft Cells panels could soften echoes and muffle sharp noises.
Phillips has not yet announced any pricing or availability details, but the luminescent wallpaper certainly seems geared to the more upscale spaces found in hotels, museums and galleries.
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"This is the only product that you can hang almost like a painting on the wall and completely control the content and create the mood you want," says lead architect Olav de Boer in a promotional video for the Soft Cells.
Credit: Philips
[Via GizMag]
Tags: Architecture, Artists, Design, Electronic Art, LEDs
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