This week, Patricia Urquiola returns to Frankfurt’s Heimtextil truthful (till 16 January 2026) to unveil ‘Amongst-all’, an set up exploring the Milanese designer’s textile exploration via an immersive, experiential journey. It’s a demonstration of the truthful’s daring method in assist of textile innovation and the alternatives for creativity throughout the subject.
On the coronary heart of the set up is a sequence of radical experiments, typical of the designer’s follow. Trying on the prospects of recycled textiles, Urquiola has introduced collectively a number of improvements within the subject, that are positioned in a visible dialog throughout the truthful.
‘Type shouldn’t be the principle goal of design,’ Urquiola tells Wallpaper*, describing her work as a designer as being like a ‘dialogue with matter’. The objects on view are related by a shared materials ecology, the results of new methods of repurposing and recycling in collaboration with fabricators and studios which might be main materials experimentation.
Patricia Urquiola presents ‘Amongst-all’ at Heimtexil 2026
Patricia Urquiola at Heimtextil, hugging an inflatable structure created from nylon leftovers from unused cloth rolls and selvages
(Picture credit score: Constantin Meyer)
One of many core components of the show is a sequence of objects made of various interpretations of Econyl, a cloth created from discarded fishing nets and textile-industry waste (a nook of the house is devoted to the fabric’s authentic type, and a display screen explains its processes). The fabric is available in two types, utilized by the designer to experiment with the chances of {industry} and craft. In its textile type, it seems as a fringed upholstery cloth, used to cowl a big seating object created in collaboration with Moroso and CC-tapis, an evolution of a design from 2025 that additionally suggests new seating typologies.
Econyl additionally seems as the place to begin for strong objects: in its pellet type, the fabric is used for a collaboration with manufacturing firm Caracol, comprising sculptures that exemplify a real collaboration with a machine. Urquiola requested: what occurs if we let the machine paint freely with the fabric? The result’s a sequence of fluid types that resemble textiles or three-dimensional work of their obvious softness, whereas additionally talking the visible language of craft.
‘Giano Bifronte’ sculptural seat, made with Moroso and CC-tapis, with a fringe protecting manufactured from Econyl yarn
(Picture credit score: Constantin Meyer)
Urquiola emphasises the significance of working with recycled supplies, of elevating waste and experimenting with the scope of latest, regenerated materials choices, regardless that the outcome could also be a much less managed train than we’re used to in design in the present day.
Working between digital, AI-powered pictures and the three-dimensional world, Urquiola additionally presents a brand new method to the Euclidean grid, proven right here each as an ornamental body to the set up (manufactured from woven selvages from 13 Rugs, the German firm which additionally collaborated on two felted rugs on diaplay) and as a visible information for an on-screen determine that guests can management with their physique. However she is eager to emphasize the out of date nature of such a grid in modern creation: ‘It is a part of our tradition, nevertheless it does not carry the identical worth anymore,’ she explains. ‘For me, design just isn’t about controlling types anymore, it is extra a couple of negotiation with matter, a dialogue, a course of.’
‘Amongst-all’ set up view
(Picture credit score: Constantin Meyer)
Somewhat than offering a sequence of sensible instruments for designing domesticity, Urquiola’s show reaches into uncharted territory to counsel how design can rethink outdated methods and discover a brand new dialogue between creator and materials.
On the centre, guests are welcomed by a silver creature, zoomorphic however summary, made with Ohoskin, an Italian textile innovation created from discarded orange peel. Futuristic in its silvery guise, it is an interpretation of a digital object that Urquiola first introduced at Heimtextil in 2025, and additional developed for 2026.
‘We’re a nexus of coexistence between craft and {industry},’ concludes Urquiola. ‘I do not consider in purity, and thru my work, I suggest a brand new dialogue of woven concepts. I do not consider in perfection, I would quite attempt for transformation.’
‘Amongst-all’ set up view. Within the foreground on the proper is a 3D-printed object made by Caracol utilizing Econyl pellets. On the left within the background is ‘Giano Bifronte’, a sculptural seat made with Econyl Yarn by CC-tapis and Moroso
(Picture credit score: Constantin Meyer)
Inflatable structure created from nylon leftovers from unused cloth rolls and selvages
(Picture credit score: Constantin Meyer)
‘Amongst-all’ set up view
(Picture credit score: Constantin Meyer)
Supply: Wallpaper
