The Textile Eye - Report 30

Skill & Sensibility

New Themes in Contract & Hospitality

This report follows the contract and hospitality market through NeoCon and Fulton Market Design Days in Chicago, then travels to Copenhagen for the thirteenth edition of 3daysofdesign.

Expertise runs through the report in several forms — Liam Lee, a self-taught felter who reached production with a contract mill, Lapuan Kankurit, a weaving family five generations deep, and an interview with artist & educator Ragna Froda. Plus, guest contributions from Lori Weitzner and Daniela Venezia. Character, skill, and material expression came to the fore across the season, while sustainability emerged as material choice, durability, and circular design.

What's inside:

• Five design themes: The Cultivated Collector, The Avant-Gardener, The Bauhaus Effect, Beyond the Surface, and The Mark of Mother Nature

• 40 pages of color direction in Personality Types: Contract Color with Character — 19 named shades and palettes with HEX codes throughout

• Interviews with Liam Lee on his collaboration with HBF Textiles, Jaana Hjelt of Lapuan Kankurit, and Ragna Froda on connection, craft, and culture

• Daniela Venezia on the human hand in contemporary design, and Lori Weitzner's Color Worlds from Copenhagen

• Viva Vienna: Women of the Wiener Werkstätte at The Jewish Museum

• Featured work from over 180 brands, studios, and makers