3D knitting isn’t just for clothes or shoes; it’s potentially the future of furniture. Even Ikea is getting into the game. This year, Layer–a design studio based in London–is releasing the “Tent” chair for the Italian brand Moroso. It’s a seamless, 3D-knitted chair that integrates upholstery, cushions, and an armrest into a single piece of fabric–riffing, as its name suggests, on tent design.
The knitted “matrix,” which Layer calls the stretchy all-in-one piece of fabric, is composed of over 164,000 feet of waterproof nylon yarn woven into over two million loops. The steel frame is designed to be inserted into pockets in the sides of the fabric, just like you would assemble a tent.
