Dutch home decor and furnishing designer Bertjan Pot has designed a vibrant, colourful textile for the iconic Utrecht armchair, designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, yet another Dutchman of artistic movement De Stijl fame, in 1935.
The armchair has been exclusively produced by the Italian brand Cassina since 1988. The newly designed BoxBlocks fabric will have three versions, each of which will upholster 90 limited-edition chairs. The geometric patterns, designed in vibrant colours, will adorn the fabric of the chairs, using innovative weaving technology. A computer-driven Jacquard weaving machine will be used, with eight coloured threads mixed two at a time to create 19 different shades on a template tracing the shape of the armchair, resulting in a unique geometric pattern of triangles, in which no triangle is ever repeated.
“My concepts are never single-lined or step-by-step but they are always a meeting point of different ideas and feelings,” says Pot, adding, “For the BoxBlocks textile of the Utrecht, it was important for me to do something today that was not technically possible at the time of the armchair’s creation.”
The brand’s Origins of the Future collection was displayed at Milan’s Salone del Mobile furniture fair from April 12 to 17.
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