The London-based design firm Layer has created a prototype seat that’s knitted with conductive thread.
Humanscale Introduces Fourtis in Collaboration with Textile Designer Elizabeth Whelan
For its newest collaboration with award-winning textile designer Elizabeth Whelan, Humanscale introduces Fourtis, a versatile and sustainably-crafted performance textile.
Designtex + Coalesse Collection
In a true collaboration between applied materials and furniture experts, Designtex and Coalesse, equally well known for bringing warmth to work, developed together the Designtex + Coalesse collection.
Knoll Luxe’s New Fashion-Inspired Textile Line Pushes the Limits of Manufacturing
One upholstery textile in the collection, All Star, is an homage to the spattered-paint look that's cropping up in recent designs by high-fashion houses Maison Margiela and Gucci.
How Florence Knoll helped America sell the world on capitalism
The U.S. State Department had also noticed Knoll’s growing reputation. As part of a Cold War propaganda effort to align consumer choice with political choice, they used her and her “look” to help establish and promote an American identity abroad.
Camira Launches New Textile Line In Partnership With Jens Risom Design
Global textile company Camira Fabrics has announced their collaboration with Danish-American designer Jens Risom, which has launched globally today.
Philippe Starck covers furniture for Cassina with apple-based vegan fabric
French designer Philippe Starck has created a collection of furniture for Cassina that have been upholstered in Apple Ten Lork, a vegan fabric.
Carnegie Creative Studio Releases 2019 Trend Forecast
Kvadrat debuts eco-friendly and "sporty" Patio outdoor fabrics
Due to its high-performance properties, the fabric can be used across all outdoor spaces, as well as areas with high-humidity and chlorine such as spas and indoor pools.
Allseating Expands Proprietary Fabric Portfolio
Allseating announced that it has launched three new solid fabrics to enhance its growing collection of proprietary textiles: Norwood, Calabasas, and Fleur.
Save A Sample! Celebrates Twenty Years of Helping The A&D Industry Recycle Unused Materials
Save A Sample! is a non-profit nationwide recycling drive helping designers donate unused samples to local design schools—keeping the materials from alternatively going into landfills.
Knoll Luxe Collections Introduced at knoll.com
Designtex and Crypton Team Up to Celebrate 25 years of Design and Innovation
In celebration of Crypton's 25th anniversary and their foundational partnership with Designtex, the two innovators have teamed up once again to introduce a special collection that pays homage to art, design, technology, performance and two pioneering leaders in the contract textile industry.
Back to the future
The forthcoming Heimtextil is themed as “Toward Utopia” and represents a return to fiction becoming reality for the trend space.
Hang Onto Your Seats
AIS has partnered with Applied Textiles for Alta™ – a new textile performance technology that is bonded directly to AIS seating fabrics.
Fierce and fashionable: Designers turn commercial interiors materials into wearable art
Stantec Sacramento interior designer walks the runway in dress crafted from carpet, window shades, and upholstery—for a good cause.
Putting the Health Back Into Health-Care Textiles
Textiles are key to designing health and safety into our hospitals—and the industry is changing its thinking about how these fabrics should be made.
CF Stinson Introduces First Ever Responsive Woven Textiles Collection for Commercial Interiors
Inspired by Philip Johnson and Rare Minerals, Jonathan Olivares Designs a New Textile for Kvadrat
Working with the Harvard Art Museum's Straus Center for Conservation, Olivares developed the textile after creating a specially-commissioned piece of furniture for Johnson's Thesis House.
HAWORTH & KVADRAT ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP
Haworth, Inc. and Kvadrat are launching a new partnership at NeoCon and Orgatec to provide a global textile offering that coordinates with Haworth’s global product portfolio.