GKD Metal Fabrics is a supplier of interwoven metal meshes for large-scale architectural use.
Woven metal fabrics offer a wonderful visual inversion: when the primary illumination is from the viewer’s side, the surface appears solid. When the primary illumination is on an object or wall surface behind the metal fabric surface, the fabric appears highly transparent (it can almost completely disappear when viewed from a distance).
As such, if a direct-view lighting product is integrated into the weave of the mesh, it can “magically” appear to dance across the transparent surface (because it will be visually brighter then the surface behind the mesh).
GKD has creatively exploited this effect with the Mediamesh product, which includes an integrated direct view LED display system woven right into their products.The Illumesh variant produces softer, more volumetric surfaces then the precision seen in the direct view Mediamesh product.