Designer Harry Nuriev of Crosby Studios has transformed India Mahdavi's Paris gallery into a silver-coloured space where visitors can play table tennis in the lead-up to the 2024 Olympic Games.
The Match Point installation is the 14th takeover of Mahdavi's Project Room gallery space on the Left Bank, where the Iranian-French architect also has her studio, showroom and boutique.
Harry Nuriev has transformed India Mahdavi's Paris gallery into a ping pong parlour
Given carte blanche to transform the 28-square-metre space, Nuriev employed a minimalist aesthetic to make visitors feel like they are part of a video game.
The table at the centre of the space is completely painted silver, as are the bats and the balls. Reflective materials were used throughout, including the silver linoleum floor and aluminium panels cladding the walls. The ping pong table, racket and ball were all painted silver
"Project Room #14 acts as a modern-day parlour and seeks to address table tennis from a spatial and social perspective," Mahdavi said.
"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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The collaboration with Nuriev was a "quick and energetic" back-and-forth akin to a game of ping pong, Mahdavi explaine...