Category: Textiles
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Studiopepe’s Relevo Rug for Muuto – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Relevo is what happens when Scandinavian design meets Italian style. The new rug collection from Danish company Muuto has been designed by Milan-based Studiopepe, a creative and architecture studio founded in 2006 by Arianna Lelli Mami and Chiara Di Pinto. The brief to Studiopepe from Muuto was to design carpets inspired by nature. “We started […]
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Furniture Highlights from EDIT Napoli 2022 – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Now in its fourth edition, EDIT Napoli—the Italian fair dedicated to limited edition and small-series designs—proved to be an opportunity to discover diverse and unexpected gems. From our recent visit to the fair, which is curated by Domitilla Dardi and Emilia Petruccelli, we’ve chosen to highlight exemplary furniture projects that represent contemporary Italian design. […]
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Belgium is Design’s “The Gift to be Simple” Exhibit Locates the Humanity in Textiles – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Artists, designers and curators once again converge in New York to celebrate the foundational yet ever-evolving medium of textiles in the citywide event founded by Lidewij Edelkoort: New York Textile Month. This year, public initiative Belgium is Design tapped Edelkoort and Philip Fimmano to curate The Gift to be Simple, a poetic display of textiles […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] A Native American woman in space, Nick Cave’s new textiles, tightening rules for orbital debris and more California Becomes the First Official Sanctuary State for Trans Youth Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom passed SB 107, a law that prohibits other states from prosecuting families seeking gender-affirming care in California. The new legislation (which […]
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Artist Nick Cave’s Knoll Textile Collection – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Ahead of Nick Cave’s forthcoming survey exhibition, Forothermore, opening at NYC’s Guggenheim Museum, the celebrated artist, sculptor, dancer and professor announced a collaboration with Knoll: a 10-piece collection of textiles “consisting of four upholsteries, three draperies and three wall-coverings.” The vibrant collection “conveys Cave’s sense of dimension, color and movement, with each design referencing a […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Apollo mission photography restored, pulverizing glass for coastal restoration, bowfin regurgitalite and more Recycling Glass into Sand and Gravel to Fight Climate Change Founded in 2020, Glass Half Full is a New Orleans-based startup that recycles glass to make sand and gravel to be used in disaster relief, construction, new products and boosting coastal […]
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Viking Textiles Reveal Misconceptions About Women’s Power in Medieval Societies – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] The understood role of North Atlantic Viking women is often domestic, placing them second to men. However, new studies reveal these assumptions were made with present-day bias and that women were integral to the evolution of Medieval societies. At the forefront of this research is Michèle Hayeur Smith, an anthropological archaeologist at Brown University […]
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Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] An explosion of color in Stockholm, NASA’s Mars precautions, updates to our perception of marijuana and more NASA’s Preventative Measures Against Potential Martian Pathogens Although the risk is small that threatening organisms will make their way to Earth via the Martian rock samples currently being collected, NASA is taking precautions. These samples—set to arrive […]
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Textured Works – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Providing moments of invigoration and meditation, this year’s installment of The Armory Show—the acclaimed international art fair born in NYC circa 1994—opens within the sprawling Javits Center (and preceded by a satellite installation off-site) to the public today. Inspiration radiates from the network of exhibits, presented by 240 galleries and representing more than 30 countries. […]
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Ghana’s Kantamanto Market at the Center of “Obroni Wawu” – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Located in Accra, Ghana, Kantamanto Market is the largest second-hand apparel market in West Africa—and it’s brimming with clothes from North America, the UK, China, Korea and Australia. It’s partly “waste management” for those countries (and has a devastating effect on Ghana, as tons of this clothing is unusable and becomes landfill), but it […]
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Traditional Japanese Garments Merge with Unusual Natural Materials in New Exhibition – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] From now through 11 September, the Minneapolis Institute of Art will showcase Dressed by Nature: Textiles of Japan, an exhibition that features over 120 Japanese textiles crafted from unexpected natural materials like banana leaf, nettle, hemp and even fish skin. “Exhibitions on the dress of Japan always focus on the silk kimono and clothes worn […]
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Raw Color’s “Temperature Textiles” Collection is Embedded With Climate Data – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] Created by Daniera ter Haar and Christoph Brach of the Eindhoven-based studio Raw Color, the Temperature Textiles collection of blankets, scarves and socks has climate change data knitted within. These colorful products incorporate information on the three main elements of global warming: temperature change, sea level rise and emissions. For example, the Sea Level Blanket illustrates […]
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Sustainable Aesthetics” at NYC’s Japan Society – COOL HUNTING
[ad_1] Designed by NYC-based architecture firm SO-IL, the Japan Society‘s Boro Textiles: Sustainable Aesthetics exhibition introduces audiences to folklorist and cultural anthropologist Chuzaburo Tanaka’s personal collection of vintage Japanese pieces along with contemporary garments by pioneers of Japanese fashion like Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, Issey Miyake, and Yohji Yamamoto. The presentation bridges the gap […]