Petra Blaisse (1955) started her professional career in 1978 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, in the Department of Applied Arts, where she worked as assistant curator until 1986.

From 1986 onwards, she worked as a freelance exhibition designer and won distinction for her installations of sculptural and architectural works (Rotterdam ’88 ‘Sculpture Route’ and OMA exhibitions 1988-1992). Gradually her focus shifted to interior spaces where textiles, color, light and acoustic effects became her tools. At the same time the first commissions for garden designs were given.

In 1991, she founded Inside Outside, a one-man studio. From 1999 onward, the team grew to around twelve professionals of various disciplines and nationalities, working together in a multitude of creative areas, including textile, landscape, interior and exhibition design. In collaboration with architects, planners, engineers and curators, Inside Outside gained international recognition with projects of increasing technical sophistication, ambition and scale. Public parks, interior interventions, large-scale curtains and gardens for cultural and commercial buildings, landscape master plans, small built structures and planting plans for roof and private gardens fill their portfolio.

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