Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, famous for their
Steelwood chairs, launched the
Rennes and
Chainette curtains at the
Stockholm Furniture Fair . The pieces were made using delicate embroidery techniques. Created for the
Kvadrat brand, both have the same model, but differ in quality and specific characteristics and were designed to interact in different ways with light intensity and shadows.
Rennes This type features wide, diagonal shapes, densely stitched in intersecting lines, creating an interplay of colored shapes. The hues become more intense when the curtain is lit from behind.
Chainette The
Chainettes have a more subtle aesthetic, with fine lines, sewn together as if they were braids. With softer colors, when lit from behind, they give the viewer a feeling of transparency.
The products were the first designs from “
Seventeen screens ,” an exhibition held by the duo in Tel Aviv, Israel, and Rennes, France. The pieces presented had watercolor designs and also changed according to the lights and colors that interacted with them.
“Embroidery has always been important to us. In the region where we come from, Brittany, there is a great tradition of this technique,” say the brothers. “We have always been interested in it, and for this collection, the delicacy and lightness of the technique was the right one for our designs”, they add.
