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How to Build a Blanket Fort, temporary set design at Roskilde Festival and Chart Art Fair

Spacon & X and artist duo Frederik Nystrup-Larsen and Oliver Sundqvist

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Client
Tuborg and Chart Art Fair
Floor area
150.00 ㎡
Completion
2019

How to Build a Blanket Fort is a maze of colorful textiles, semi-transparent walls, flowy ceiling and abstract objects. Together creating the set of the Tuborg Lounge at Roskilde Festival 2019, and later as the set of several points for social gatherings at Chart Art Fair in Copenhagen.
The Blanket Fort embodies a playful atmosphere which strives to disarm any potential pretentious VIP environment. The design aims to inspire the guests to escape the outside world and onboard the journey into childhood memories of building, hiding and playing in a blanket fort.

The construction is primarily made from upcycled bed linen, dyed with avocado and cabbage leftovers in order to bring a new colorful life to the old textiles. All in all, creating a large-scale patchwork in natural nuances with few popping color spots.

Soft curves are cut into the patchwork creating deformations, narrow passages and tunnels which either guide the visitors to smaller lounge areas or shape dreamy formations in the sealing.
Deconstructed chairs are placed around the blanket fort to facilitate small lounge areas or forming the stage for artist talks and music performances. Each sculptural expression is made from broken chairs upcycled by Frederik Nystrup-Larsen and Oliver Sundqvist.