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Frederik Gustav Turns Speaker Cones into a Reflective Wall for O Days Festival

The article highlights "Speaker," a captivating installation created by the Copenhagen-based design studio Frederik Gustav for the O Days Festival.

What makes this project fascinating is how it subverts expectations: the designers took the familiar anatomy of a loudspeaker cone and completely stripped away its acoustic function. Instead, they built a curved wall made of circular-brushed aluminum panels that act purely as an optical experience. The installation relies on natural light, shadows, and the viewer's position to create kinetic reflections during the day, while at night, it transforms with warm, backlit glows.

Read the article here: https://www.urdesignmag.com/frederik-gustav-speaker-odays-copenhagen/