Designer Harry Nuriev from Crosby Studios transforms a Paris gallery by India Mahdavi to form the Match Point installation. It is a silver-tonal space where visitors can experience and immerse themselves in a game of table tennis just ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games. It is located on the Left Bank and the space is entirely transformed with a minimal aesthetic to make visitors feel like they are in a video game.
Mahdavi speaks about the design, stating "Project Room #14 acts as a modern-day parlour and seeks to address table tennis from a spatial and social perspective. On the one hand, it reconnects with the game's origin by devoting a domestic interior space to physical activity, and on the other, it invites the outside to play on the inside."
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