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Westridge School Upgrades to Safer, Sustainable IFR Stage Curtains
Westridge School in Pasadena recently underwent a campus-wide upgrade of soft goods, including the stage curtains in the historic Fran Norris Scoble Performing Arts Center and Braun Theatre. Rose Brand designed, fabricated, and installed new inherently flame-retardant (IFR) curtains, sustainable fabrics, and acoustical wall treatments to replace the school’s aging cotton drapery. Thanks to the rigging expertise of the Rose Brand West installation team, the project brought new life to the Westridge stages—creating safer, greener, and better-sounding performance environments for students.
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Transforming Open Space into a Stage at Park Avenue Armory
It’s no easy task to transform a wide open, cavernous space into a captivating, all engrossing theatrical environment. With a little help from Rose Brand, the magicians at Park Avenue Armory did it for the critically acclaimed production of “The Lehman Trilogy.” How do you build a theatre from scratch in the massive Wade Thompson Drill Hall? Start by creating a full proscenium with nearly an acre of masking curtains
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Space Transformation from Single to Multi-Purpose
Our customer needed a quick and easy way to create a dual use space. They wanted to transform an everyday gymnasium into an elegant event space whenever desired. In a short amount of time they wanted a bare gymnasium to be lined with gorgeous white silk drapes and flowing ceiling swags. And of course, they needed to protect the delicate white soft goods during volleyball tournaments. This was a challenging request for which we developed a surprisingly simple solution: a unique application of curtain track and custom fabrication.
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Masking That Accomodates Variable Projection Screen Sizes
Lots of folks are interested in masking that can accommodate different screen dimensions, depending on the specs of the video/film to be projected. The following was a killer solution for a wealth of issues surrounding a project of this nature. Our client wanted an automated, motorized system for configuring all four sides of the masking curtains that surrounded their screen.
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Custom Printed Wall Panels, Invisibly Framed & Acoustically Insulated for Gorgeous Architectural Interiors.
When the design team in charge of renovating and transforming Broadway’s Court Theatre into the James Earl Jones Theatre, their vision included a digitally printed wall treatment that would extend “seamlessly” from the Basement up through the 3rd floor. Each floor practically floats in space, mostly detached from the walls, which allows the imagery to flow without interruption up all four stories.
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How to Choose a Velour Fabric for Your Main Stage Curtain
Some important considerations in choosing a velour include flame resistance, weight, color, price, in-stock status, pile height, durability, acoustic properties and effect on the environment. See below for a more in-depth discussion of each of these characteristics.
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How to Choose Your Black Masking Fabric, a Handy Chart
Here’s a useful tool for choosing black masking fabric whether you’re interested in a sewn curtain or just draping material. The fabrics below are ranked in descending order of price and described in terms of opacity, blackness, weight, width and use.
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What You Need to Know About Acoustics (Part 3)
Rose Brand has partnered with our friends at Stages Consultants to create a blog series about the acoustical applications of fabrics. In this 3-part series, we discuss some of the more common approaches for using fabrics in performance spaces and also the things to consider when choosing a fabric for your project.
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What You Need to Know About Acoustics (Part 2)
Rose Brand has partnered with our friends at Stages Consultants to create a blog series about the acoustical applications of fabrics. In this 3-part series, we’ll discuss some of the more common approaches for using fabrics in performance spaces and also the things to consider when choosing a fabric for your project. In this second installment we take a closer look at the acoustically important differences between fabrics and identify some considerations in choosing the right fabric and integrating it into your design.
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