Textile Sketch by Kiki van Eijk
This collection of furniture by Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk looks like it's made of textiles but is in fact fashioned from solid metal.
The Eindhoven designer used laser-cutting, welding and blow-torching plus gold- and nickel-coated thread to give the illusion of lace, piping, fringing and crochet.
The Textile Sketch range includes a dining table, high table, low table, lamp, chair and room-divider.
It's on show at The Pop-up Generation exhibition at MOTI Museum until 12th April.
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Textile Sketch
Part of a furniture collection that brings flat and mobile textile shapes to life in solid heavy metal; the different techniques Kiki discovered in a metalworkshop inspired her “to capture the delicate nature of fabrics: laser-cutting lace, 3D laser-cutting piping, welding and blow-torching fringe, coating gold and nickel thread, and even attempting to fluff-up a metal pillow!”
A first sketch of cut and folded textile pieces results in a table with a flat and textile feeling.