Gallery: A Mirrored, Moving Ceiling Turns This Museum Into a Funhouse

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    For the next week, in conjunction with London Design Festival, the ceiling of Room48a at the Victoria & Albert Museum will play host to a giant, reflective, moving installation.
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    Designed by Barber Osgerby, *Double Space for BMW—Precision & Poetry in Motion* is a massive sub-structure that mirrors the Raphael Cartoons around it.
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    Raphael painted the Cartoons as the designs for tapestries in the Sistine Chapel.
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    Each structure in *Double Space* weighs five and a half tons, has crane motors hidden in its hollow shell, and is the length of a Boeing 747 wing.
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    The goal, says Jay Osgerby, is "to have a completely altered perception. And to see the drawings in a new way.”
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