Danish textile company, Kvadrat, has teamed up with one of the world’s leading art and design publishers, Prestels, to launch its new book, Interwoven – Kvadrat Textile and Design. The new publication will be launched on 17th September at Kvadrat’s London showroom during this year’s London Design Festival.
Since its foundation in 1968, Kvadrat has nurtured creative partnerships with an evolving creative community, collaborating with and supporting designers, architects and artists. Reflecting the integrated working practice of the company, the book illustrates the symbiosis between nature, manufacturing, architecture, design and art which guides Kvadrat’s ethos, and the way that each of these diverse elements educates and inspires the others.
“We are delighted to have partners like Prestel and Robert Violette for this project, which is many years in the making and came about very organically,” says Anders Byriel, CEO of Kvadrat. “From the Scandinavian design roots of our beginnings to the more international role Kvadrat is taking on in today’s global marketplace, innovation and creative collaborations have been a key part of Kvadrat since my father Poul and Erling Rasmussens founded the company more than four decades ago.”
Interwoven is a celebration of the wider world that surrounds Kvadrat, drawing inspiration from its engagement with prominent artistic figures of the 20th Century, such as Verner Panton and Nanna Ditzel, and the leading talents of the new generation, including Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Tord Boontje, Thomas Demand and Olafur Eliasson.
Tracing the company’s founding principle to produce a machine-made fabric without losing its artistic integrity, the book captures the origins of the now iconic Hallingdal 65 created by Denmark’s Nanna Ditzel. More recent projects with Boontje, the Bouroullecs and Demand have led to collaborations with renowned institutions such as London’s Victoria & Albert Museum and the Serpentine Gallery as well as the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Interwoven brings together original essays and photographs with previously-unseen archival material and historical research in an illustrated 200-page hardcover book. Bound in bespoke woolen cloth, it features a foreword by Peter Saville and contributions from Tord Boontje, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Denise Hagströmer, Hettie Judah, Sevil Peach, Matt Price, Zoë Ryan, Joël Tettamanti and Jane Withers.
