Milan 2011: designer Tord Boontje presented a collection of plywood furniture held together with thread for Italian brand Moroso at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan earlier this month.

Called Stitched, the collection includes a stool, chair and lamp.

The pieces have holes along each edge, through which thread is stitched to join them together.

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The following is from the designer:

Stitched Collection - Tord Boontje

“For a long time, I have been interested in sewing and embroidery. When I was a child, my mother would show me how to sew and I made some clothes for myself (with her help). More recently I have used embroidery in my work on textiles and fur­niture. The action of sewing, creating holes in material with a needle comes back in pieces like the Rain Chair and Wednesday Table.

This time I started to think in a more functional way about sewing, the idea of creat­ ing holes in materials and connecting pieces with yarns. I realized that by stitching plywood components together it would be possible to create strong structures for furniture. After making scale models, I started experimenting in my studio with a full size chair. This led to the prototype for the Stitched Chair.

I like the idea that the stitching is a very simple, low­­‐tech way of making. As stitch­ ing is a very universal and ancient technique, it gives an almost tribal or folk charac­ ter to the pieces.

I imagined that someone could construct their whole environment in this method; the furniture and also the room itself, therefore we decided to start this as a small domestic collection that can expand in the future.“