A few months ago we presented an interesting project called the Rainbow Bookshelf, a beautiful example of organizing books by color. Today here is another interesting way to play with colors created by Jim Lambie. Jim Lambie, a Scottish artist, is best known for his striped vinyl floor pieces, which have covered the floors and stairs of multiple gallery and museum spaces in the United States and Europe.The artist meticulously adheres vinyl tape to the floor in a geometric pattern that responds to the building’s architecture.The project presented in this post is called “ZOBOP!” and is a dizzying installation of meandering parallel strips of colored tape laid on the lobby floor and up some stairs of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Published by Michael October 8th, 2008 in Ideas
Tags: gallery and museum, Jim Lambie, new york, Scottish artist, striped vinyl floor, vinyl tape
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Dizzy-making striping on a stairs, no thank you.. Like the idea, but it’s just a bit too much for me..
So this means that every colour is made from one tape? Lot’s of work. And I’m wondering how you have to prepare the stairs to make it last longer than five times to scratch it off…
Do you have any information on this?
That’s pretty cool.
OMG I would so love this if it were tetris, now that would be awesome.
That is the ugliest thing I’ve ever seen bar none.
This is so sick! All I need now is a little flute to play when I need to call the Oompa Loomas over!
Wow!
That’s awesome and eye-catching.
I’m not sure about the durability aspect, but if water-based polyurethane would hold to it, you could use that to “cure” the installation. Then, you would just need to re-coat once a year to keep a fresh, scuff-free finish.
Definitely time consuming to create though.
If you are drunk and you want to get down on the stairs, you should call on 911 first to be waited by an ambulance
extraordinarily tacky
It’s like a Venus flytrap for old people. Why not just skip the vertigo and jump out the window?
“YIKES!” was my first and only thought on this. *shudders*
I would burn my house down if it had these stairs in it. Ugliest, most dangerous, most poorly-executed design ever.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT TITTIES!
What happens when you smoke too much pot…
Stairs like those would be the death of me. Literally. They’d make me dizzy, I’d lose my footing, and that would be that.
I love it!! Retro all the way baby.
Making the stairs a focal point, cool. Making your stairs look like the entrance of a gay bar, lame.
Hot DAMN! This is so so so GOOD! I love the colours! But having said that, clumsy person like myself will probably fall down these stairs ALL the time!!
Amazing Work. Well Executed. Intriguing Palatte.
Very impressed, some people may not like it, but it takes real talent to come up with and carry out ideas like this. WELL DONE
Sorry, but it’s a bit freakish
Wow, that is about the most scary thing I’ve ever seen. Yikes.
I love it! I’ve always had a soft spot for stripes in bright, bold colors. This is just the epitome of cool as far as I’m concerned. I’m already trying to figure out how to copy it and put in my hallway or kitchen floor. It’s all about thinking out of the box…
Yeah - they won’t get sick of that in a year.
appallingly poor taste. i can’t fathom how ANYONE thought that was a good idea. firstly, why you would ever want to make your STAIRS the focal part of your home is beyond me. secondly, to attempt it THIS was is astounding.
I saw a floor like this at the Hirshhorn Museum in DC but the colors were more fluorescent/neon. It was actually pretty amazing. Not saying I’d want to live with it, though.
Very eye-catching
Yeah, Vertigo. I wouldn’t like it, I got the “Wow, I don’t want to walk down those too fast” thought. Though it’s a very acid-trippy 70s sort of design, possibly 60s? and some might like it.
As for the gay bar comment, if I were designing a gay bar, I’d go with something softer, those leather men are all big softies hehe!
I love bright colors and I like the idea, but I can see where this might get annoying & obnoxious over time. Maybe using the idea but shoosing fewer, more subdued colors would be better.
Interesting…,but it would be too risky to walk on it.