Elliptical Folding Screen - Gottlieb Klein House & Mackerel House

by Caroline Casey

1994 - 2007

One of the most renowned of all Caroline’s designs, the Elliptical Folding Screen is lightweight and delicately woven with elliptical strips of hand selected timber veneers. Like much of the Caroline’s collection, it is inspired by plant structure and organic form. Both a flexible space divider and light filter, this piece was also inspired by the ceramic screens of the Alhambra, whose Arabian geometric patterns defuse intense sunlight into a delicate pattern of light and shade. Similarly this screen is an exercise in the movement of light through space. An object of simple refinement, Elliptical Folding Screen translates this poetic division of space into an organic abstract form.

In the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Australia and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Black and white photograph of palm trunk by Penelope Clay.