Curated by Ilse Crawford.Ģ012, Galvanized Steel wire, Electroplating The Hardie Stool is light and playful, warm and tactile.Ĭommissioned by Kvadrat for Kvadrat Hallingdal exhibition at Salone Internazionale del Mobile 2012, Jil Sanders showroom. The result is a series of stools that use the same piece of fabric from the inside to the outside, for its structure and for its finish. When paired with resin, the fabric acts in a similar way to laminated fibreglass or carbon fibre. Fabric doesn’t react like paper, but the idea is the same: by rolling it up to make it structural, just like a rolled-up sock it starts to become more rigid. rim of a paper cup or a rolled up newspaper. The weaving of the fabric is very hard wearing and deep, and after comparing the Hallingdal to certain fibreglass and carbon fiber matting we had the feeling that the Kvadrat fabric could have a structural role as well as an aesthetic one in the creation of a piece of furniture.īy applying a simple action, such as rolling to a nonstructural material, a structural strength can be achieved, f.ex. Wanting to give the material a more significant role we set out to design a range of stools and chairs that uses Hallingdal fabric as its main material, therefore doing without the usual structural elements. Kvadrat Hallingdal fabric is usually used for the upholstery of furniture where the fabric composes 5-10% of the whole piece and has purely aesthetic or tactile role.
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