Stephanie Lin of Present Forms has designed Taffy, a large-scale installation for the 2025 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, curated by Public Art Company for Goldenvoice.

Taffy is a vibrant, large-scale installation composed of seven cloud-like towers ranging in height, each clad in a double-layered, scalloped mesh that creates dynamic moiré patterns.

The towers' colours, inspired by midcentury desert modernism, shift subtly with the movement of the sun and dramatically transform through lighting at night.

Beneath this pastel canopy, plywood benches echoing the towers' forms and hues invite visitors to gather, pause and look up.

Taffy serves as an immersive visual frame for the event, evoking the ephemeral beauty of desert light and air and fostering a connection with the landscape.

This project has been longlisted in the installation design category of Dezeen Awards 2025.

Studio: Present Forms
Project: Taffy
Credits: Raffi Lehrer and Paul Clemente