Studio Aisslinger recently released a brand new furniture collection combining new high-tech applications to traditional stitching techniques. The result is the NETwork stitching furniture edition which transformed a 2-dimensional embroidered textile into 3D pop-up objects.
The latest 3D textile pop-up technology is an empirical research-result developed with a traditional German manufacturer in Plauen, a region with a long tradition in stitching and embroidery. The combination of experimental design with a hidden traditional production is always a challenge for designers and an exciting field for new concepts. Nowadays the know-how of specialized technologies is more often found in the supplying industries than in the design brands themselves.
the process:
the volumes are first translated with software into 2d projections of themselves that can be directly programmed into the machines that stitch the pattern into a carrying surface. The carrying surface is then dissolved and the embroidered 2d pattern becomes free to form a 3d object. The objects formed by the stitched honeycomb structures are fixed over a fiberglass mould and impregnated with resin in order to make them rigid and constructive.
“Since Gaetano Pesce´s UP-collection from 1969, the switch of dimensions has been a challenge for designers and design concepts. The pieces from the NETwork edition – armchairs, stools and lamps – are volumes carefully designed for later flattening with software support. The objects created are extremely light and transparent and they seem to flow in space as 3d textile meta-networks.” – werner aisslinger
Technical partner
gerber GmbH, Plauen, Germany
fabrics
kvadrat, Denmark
project team studio aisslinger
werner aisslinger, nicole losos, julene aguirre-bielschowsky,
verena stella gompf, johannes becker, gabriele gebert
Images courtesy of Werner Aisslinger
