Image source: Arper — Paravan
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Paravan
A modular sound-absorbing panel system that defines intimate zones within shared interiors.
2018
Official product information
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Overview
Paravan is a 2018 modular panel system by Lievore Altherr. Freestanding sound-absorbing panels establish boundaries while remaining movable elements within an interior.
Construction
The range uses upholstered panels in multiple sizes and heights. Modules can create linear, angular, circular and curved arrangements, and the related Paravan Mood accessories add storage and display functions.
Specifications
- Freestanding panels and desktop panels
- Sound-absorbing function
- Multiple heights and panel sizes
- Linear, cornered and curved compositions
- Mood accessories include shelves, hook, mirror, blackboard, magazine rack and table organizers
Story
A perimeter without construction work
Lievore Altherr conceived Paravan as an architectural element that can be placed inside an existing room. Its panels draw a perimeter around conversation, focused work or waiting without becoming a permanent partition. The softened outline prevents the system from reading as a conventional wall.
Modularity with added functions
Straight and curved panels can form open lines, corners, circles and enclosures. Arper supplements those arrangements with Paravan Mood accessories, allowing the partition to hold books, notes, magazines and small objects while retaining its acoustic role.
The gallery shows a three-sided enclosure around a table and a studio overview of straight and curved configurations (gallery:1; gallery:2).
