Kvadrat ReThink marks the Danish textile authority’s sixth exploration of design and textile in collaboration with world creatives. Unveiled at 3 Days of Design 2024, ReThink is a creatuve exploration of, sustainable approaches, curated by effrey Bernett, Anniina Koivu, Johanna Agerman Ross, Jane Withers and Njusja de Gier and that includes the work of 12 designers, each rising and established.
Kvadrat ReThink at 3 Days of Design 2024
The designers had been invited to discover the boundaries of supplies by means of revolutionary design approaches, and given carte blanche on their most popular medium, from recycled textiles, renewable or pure supplies, or round approaches. The group explored Kvadrat’s huge materials portfolio, whereas additionally drawing from their very own communities for additional materials and manufacturing inspirations.
Augmented Curtain – Christophe Guberan and Camille Blin
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The designers concerned embrace Patricia Urquiola, Fernando Laposse, Buro Belén, ECAL’s Christophe Guberan and Camille Blin and extra, with a roster of creatives starting from Iceland to Venezuela. By way of a wide range of approaches, the designers delved into their very own apply whereas additionally exploring the potential of circularity and collaborating with native realities to offer voice to their communities.
All through the 12 initiatives, the designers explored experimental approaches to utilizing textiles each for sensible home functions, playful ideas and extra. Guberan and Blin’s Augmented Curtain, for instance, ‘develops the potential of a curtain as an insulating materials in residing areas,’ by means of the usage of a 3D weaving expertise leading to a curtain that may scale back warmth loss in winter and reasonable temperature acquire in summer season. To do that, the pair used Kvadrat’s Replicate, created from recycled PET, and created light-weight curtains that includes small tubes that entice air, forming an insulating barrier between window and room.
Octopoda – Patricia Urquiola
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A decidedly totally different path was chosen by Urquiola, who used her Sport textile for Kvadrat ( the world’s first recycled polyester upholstery textile woven from discarded plastic collected from the ocean) to create a large octopus sculpture. The playful object ‘is meant to convey a critical message about waste reassignment and environmental sustainability.’
The Good Shepherd – Fernando Laposse
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Additionally on the playful finish of the spectrum is Laposse’s The Good Shepherd, a rocking bench impressed by the apply of herding sheep on horseback in Mexico. Utilizing Kvadrat’s wool-based textiles (a symbolic selection, the designer explains, ‘as the corporate’s wool manufacturing is dependent upon sustaining grassland for grazing’), Laposse’s horse-like piece contains a saddle in Kvadrat’sVidar 4 sitting on a blanket fabricated from Recheck. In the meantime, he selected Sisal for the physique – a cloth that’s recurring within the designer’s oeuvre, as it’s derived from agave he cultivates as a part of his ongoing land and group regeneration challenge in Mexico.
Asignatura: Patineta – Fragmentario
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Venezuela-born María-Elena Pombo of Fragmentario concerned a Venezuelan youngsters’s dwelling to create a sequence okay skateboards fabricated from Kvadrat Actually’s (the corporate’s versatile boards created from end-of-life textiles). ‘As they created the skateboards, the children utilized a variety of latest expertise and realized about sustainability from each a worldwide and native perspective,’ reads a observe accompanying the challenge. ‘The skateboards can be used not just for recreation but additionally for transport of their space. As a method of transport that doesn’t rely on petroleum, the skateboard is symbolic of the transfer away from ‘extractivism’.
Bana – Jenny Chou (Atlas)
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A Tibetan yak tent, created from strips of Kvadrat’s Molly 2 wool upholstery textile, is the challenge proposed by Atlas’s design studio co-founder Jenny Chou. Initially created from yak yarn and now a disappearing custom, for Chou ‘the nomads’ tents exemplify the core rules of reuse and regeneration.’ Working with the Tibetan group for the challenge turned an exploration of how conventional practices and customs might help develop sustainable design concepts.
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New York-based studio Leong Leong’s Kīpuka references the Hawaiian idea of ‘oasis’ or ‘clearing’ of the identical identify. An inspiration to the design and structure duo for its resistance to surrounding environmental transformations, the idea was translated into an ‘adaptable system of objects that transforms residing areas into sanctuaries for relaxation, play and reflection.’
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‘The contributors responded with ardour and ingenuity, drawing on numerous cultural and cross-disciplinary backgrounds,’ says says Njusja de Gier, Kvadrat’s senior vp of selling and digital. ‘ReThink captures many various approaches to sustainability by means of artistry, experimental schooling, transparency, 3D expertise, meeting, construction and pure craft wherein the inventive course of evolves by means of hand, coronary heart and thoughts.’
Kvadrat ReThink is on view throughout 3 Days of Design, 12-14 June 2024
Kvadrat showroom
Klubiensvej 22
2150 Nordhavn
Copenhagen
kvadrat.dk
Fibre Partitions – Buro Belén
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Irreversible Scale – Rikako Nagashima
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Supply: Wallpaper
