Space Popular: The Portal Galleries

With this unique commission, we worked closely with the Space Popular design team on their interactive exhibition at the Sir John Soane museum using their concept designs to help realise the finished exhibits.

Our role

design detail, build

Designers

Space Popular

Upholstery

John Hitch Seating

Photos

Gareth Gardner

Octagonal interactive table with pink skirt and VR headset, set between the windows of a red-walled museum gallery.

Interactive exhibit table on a patterned rug, with display cabinets and The Portal Galleries sign beyond.

Both exhibits used virtual reality headsets in conjunction with the tactile interactive Alcantara fabric to bring them to life.

Visitor in a VR headset seated at the interactive table, touching the upholstered tabletop.

Close-up of a visitor wearing a VR headset, hands resting on the printed Alcantara tabletop.

Visitor in a VR headset at a round upholstered plinth in The Foyle Space, facing a projection screen.

Our substrates were expertly upholstered by the talented team at John Hitch Seating.

Close-up of the tiered tabletop printed with portal icons, edge labelled portable hole, above pleated skirt.

Detail of printed portal icons, including a wardrobe, on the layered fabric tabletop.

Close-up of the printed Alcantara upholstery on the round plinth, with abstract shapes and repeated words.

Pleated fabric skirt and printed upholstered band at the base of the round plinth.

Upholstered stool in pale yellow and grey fabric on a dark timber base, standing on the printed rug.

Close-up of the semicircular rug printed with portal words such as floating door, monolith and hole.

Top of the coral upholstered plinth printed with The Magic and Mechanics of Virtual Travelling.

Overhead view of the plinth and VR headset on a semicircular word rug, two stools and a projection screen.

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