Going Boldly: Textiles Look Forward
HBF, Pallas Textiles, and other manufacturers update tradition through cutting-edge technology and sustainability cred.
With wrapped-panel, drapery, and bleach-cleanable options, Lost & Found boasts a high percentage of recycled yarns and rapidly renewable materials, like content made from discarded T-shirts. Courtesy HBF Textiles
Textile designers are the high-wire performers of the contract industry: See them bound effortlessly from construction to color theory to production; look at them deftly balancing art and science on a razor’s edge. And as they do this, many of these designers are also acting as stewards of material history. Case in point: Christiane Müller—the designer behind HBF’s new Lost & Found Collection—has created a series of upholstery and drapery textiles that utilize or reinterpret techniques ranging from embroidery, which has its origins in prehistory, to ancient Egyptian needlepunching. But Müller goes a step further, pulling off a hat trick: For many of them, she has deployed recycled yarns and rapidly renewable content to give them sustainable bona fides.
So let’s throw a rose to the designers. These collections prove that great textiles are timeless—though, thankfully, technology can lend a hand in making products longlasting, and less harmful to the earth.
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A loose kilim structure allowed Mathias Hahn to achieve nuances of color for this series, which recalls the long shadows of near-sundown.
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A loose kilim structure allowed Mathias Hahn to achieve nuances of color for this series, which recalls the long shadows of near-sundown.
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For this high-performance collection, Mayer has harnessed Tekloom technology, which fuses a woven textile with the durable features of coated fabrics.
Courtesy Mayer
For this high-performance collection, Mayer has harnessed Tekloom technology, which fuses a woven textile with the durable features of coated fabrics.
Courtesy Mayer
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The brainchild of Swiss designer Sonnhild Kestler, Maharam's Monsoon features an organic, textural stripe in spiced-up hues like Cinnamon, Turmeric, and Clove.
Courtesy Maharam
The brainchild of Swiss designer Sonnhild Kestler, Maharam's Monsoon features an organic, textural stripe in spiced-up hues like Cinnamon, Turmeric, and Clove.
Courtesy Maharam
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Minimalism and the Bauhaus inspired the graphic geometries and bold colors of Minim by Pallas Textiles.
Courtesy Pallas Textiles
Minimalism and the Bauhaus inspired the graphic geometries and bold colors of Minim by Pallas Textiles.
Courtesy Pallas Textiles
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Designer Joseph White has infused this new wool-based collection for Geiger with subtle nods to Appalachia, as in Graphton, a pattern derived from traditional quilting.
Courtesy Geiger Textiles
Designer Joseph White has infused this new wool-based collection for Geiger with subtle nods to Appalachia, as in Graphton, a pattern derived from traditional quilting.
Courtesy Geiger Textiles
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Camira has rereleased the famed Danish Modernist’s Zap and Armadillo upholsteries 40 years after their debuts.
Courtesy Camira
Camira has rereleased the famed Danish Modernist’s Zap and Armadillo upholsteries 40 years after their debuts.
Courtesy Camira
