Dutch designer Hella Jongerius has created a giant loom with threads that tumble 16 metres between the floors of the multi-storey Lafayette Anticipations foundation in the Marais, Paris.
Installed in the atrium of the foundation's building in central Paris, the giant Space Loom has turned the four-storey space into a textile studio that is open to the public to view.
Over the course of three months, a 3D shape has been gradually woven on the hanging warp threads by weavers who worked on small raised platforms.

"The reason why the Space Loom is so large is because it responds to the question of scale and to how to inhabit the verticality of the building," said Jongerius.
"And because the building's architecture is essentially a machine, it made sense to use it as a weaving machine, a loom."
The loom forms part of an exhibition called Interlace, Textile Research that explores how we consider textiles in our daily lives, as well as the implications of its production and consumption.
"If you come in on the ground floor, you see the end of a warp," explained Jongerius. "You see many threads or, more precisely, 16 metres of hanging yarn, like a deep forest of all kinds of yarns."
Jongerius aims to both demonstrate the process of weaving and draw attention to how disposable textiles have become "in today's age of fast fashion" with the Space Loom installation.

The Space Loom is joined by the Seamless Loom on the first floor and ...