Design
Knitting Chain-Link Fencing Into a Work of Art
A design team in Rotterdam has a creative solution to scenery-marring construction fences.
Fences aren't meant to be looked at. They exist to block off something from view or from access, such as a building site or your ugly recycling bins.
A team of Dutch designers is challenging that notion, however. With Lace Fence, brothers Joep and Jeroen Verhoeven and Judith de Graauw – members of the Rotterdam-based design collective DEMAKERSVAN – aim to haul the ordinary chain-link fence up into the airy realm of Art. And they're doing a decent job at it, too. Look at this noble King of the Jungle executed in galvanized-steel wire: