cranbrook student patrick gavin refers to wet floor signs and supermarket checkout grocery dividers,
his ‘room divider’ implies a simple boundary within the interior.
merging the considered with the banal, the ‘designed’ with the ‘straight-out-of- the-engineering-department’
type-aesthetic, room divider and its unusual proportions propose new ways of organizing possessions in the home.
 
 
room divider, 2008
 
room divider by patrick gavin
the black walnut wooden spine orients it as a piece of furniture,
while the bright green powder-coated aluminum sides and exposed fasteners
suggest at the same time a more industrious, municipal application.
room divider by patrick gavin
 
room divider by patrick gavin