Textility – 34 Danish furniture design inspired by a textile universe
SE, Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition 2014
Textility – furniture inspired by a textile universe
Exhibition period: 14 November 2014 – 14 December 2014
Location: Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark
A lounge chair titled News Feed, shaped as a printing press and upholstered with a fabric woven of newspaper. A screen wall woven of textile sheets of veneer. A seat made of antlers and animal hides. A cupboard called Wrap that you can zip and unzip. A sculptural Barbapapa-style easy chair clad in the most elastic furniture fabric to date. The list goes on, and titles like CORE, RENDEZ VOUS and DRESS YOUR SHELF (D.Y.S) hint at alternative furniture concepts, all shaped around this year’s theme of creating furniture inspired by a textile universe.
The Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition 2014 'Textility – furniture inspired by a textile universe' focuses on textiles in an endeavour to challenge the classic notion and use of upholstery, enhance the awareness of the technological development potential of textiles and rediscover the sensuous and aesthetic capacity of textiles. This year’s exhibition thus reconsiders and experiments with the partnership between furniture and textiles by presenting the members’ new furniture designs in a cross-field of material contrasts striking a fine balance between design and crafts.
The manufacturers are vital to the creative process, for as a true specialists within the field, the manufacturer is a knowledge bank of experience, know-how and technology – a platform of competences which the designers and manufacturers draw on to shape an experimental prototype that showcases new aspects of the profession, the craft and the history.
As always, this year’s exhibition includes a handful of guest exhibitors, who are either young talents or established designers and makers in the field of furniture or other artistic genres. The exhibition offers a diverse range of takes on the textile inspiration: a people’s chair where the woven seat is instead represented by a laser-cut pattern in the surface of the wood, a table with intarsia – an ancient decoration technique that resembles the depth and originality of embroidery – and a flowered crinoline dress shaped as a soft easy chair with dance shoes for feet.
In other words, you can look forward to a constructive dialogue between contemporary and classic virtues at this year’s Cabinetmakers’ Autumn Exhibition at the Exhibition Hall, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 51, 1434 Copenhagen from 14 November through 14 December 2014.
Fact sheet is attached.
Press photos - please contact:
Karin Carlander, T +45 29 88 14 18, se@se-design.dk
The official opening and a press showing take place on 13 November.
We look forward to seeing you there!
