Nathalie Van der Massen's REN collection of room dividers seamlessly blend linen, wool, paper, and yarn into intricate wefts on wooden frames.

Treating the frames of her room dividers as giant looms, designer Nathalie Van der Massen weaves intricate and delicate designs that simultaneously offer privacy and transparency. The collection, named REN, consists of three limited-edition room dividers: a four-panel divider and two two-panel dividers. Using a natural material palette inspired by Belgian textile heritage, Van der Massen harmoniously blends linen, wool, paper, and yarns into unique fabric wefts, ultimately creating objects that tread the line between design, art, and architecture.

The impetus for the collection began when Van der Massen started receiving requests for integrating bespoke textiles into her architectural projects. ?I wanted to create. A foundation, a framework for my custom textile designs that is scalable in various ways and can be integrated into different contexts and styles. Something timeless yet adaptable to different projects,? Van der Massen shares. From there, through a journey of research and trial and error, she combines manual and digital techniques to create the fabric wefts, subtracting threads as needed to achieve the intentional areas of transparency. Weaving around the wooden frames, Van der Massen also plays with the tightness of the weaves, which leads to subtle changes in transparency.
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