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The Timeless Innovations Of Ken Isaacs | Soft—Space: Stories and Ideas about Living Together on Earth

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The designer Ken Isaacs was a pioneer in thinking ahead. During the sixties, as countercultural movements flourished in response to the war in Vietnam, Isaacs developed the Matrix system for home furnishing. He sought to create more flexible spaces that could adapt to their use and conditions. Isaacs and his wife put together cubes made of 2” x 2” beams, each with a pattern of holes drilled into them, allowing for near endless configurations. The idea was years ahead of the similarly modular “grid beams” of today. Ever the radical, Isaacs published his beliefs on design prolifically.…

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