Kvadrat

DENMARK

Kvadrat develops and markets modern soft furnishing designs and curtains.

Kvadrat A/S
Lundbergsvej 10
8400 Ebeltoft
DENMARK
T +45 8953 1866
F +45 8953 1800
kvadrat@kvadrat.dk

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MISCELLANEOUS [7]

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'Circles' Fabric

D E S I G N E R S
Charles Eames
Ray Eames

P R O D U C E R S
Kvadrat, Denmark
Maharam, United States
1947

M A T E R I A L A N D D I M E N S I O N S
cotton
70% cotton - 30% polyester
In 5 colourways.

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'Cirkler' Fabric

D E S I G N E R
Arne Jacobsen

P R O D U C E R
Kvadrat, Denmark

M A T E R I A L
fabric
92% wool - 8% nylon


From the A.J. Centennium collection. In 7 colourways.

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'Crosspatch' Fabric

D E S I G N E R S
Charles Eames
Ray Eames

P R O D U C E R S
Kvadrat, Denmark
Maharam, United States
1947

M A T E R I A L
fabric
75% viscose - 25% polyester


In 5 colourways.

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'Gran' Fabric

D E S I G N E R
Arne Jacobsen

P R O D U C E R
Kvadrat, Denmark

M A T E R I A L
fabric
100% polyester

The story began during the Second World War. Jacobsen was of Jewish descent and consequently feared for his life. In September 1943, he fled to Sweden in a little rowing boat with his friend and colleague Poul Henningsen. Besides the fact that they all nearly drowned, the story has it that, in the end, their wives had to row them all for more than four hours to reach Sweden.
Since he was not permitted to work as an architect during his stay in Sweden, he began to create designs for textiles; an occupation that he continued to pursue in Denmark after the end of the war.
The “Swedish” designs are highly organic and his motifs are derived from shapes found in nature itself. Later, on his return to Denmark, he began to bring in more abstract and geometric shapes.
His production of textiles in the 1950s developed as a hybrid between the figurative plant patterns and a more abstract and strict form of expression, which became
increasingly dominant.
In the 1960s, Arne Jacobsen’s textiles were purely abstract and geometric, characterised by more or less repeating abstractions, manifesting themselves as circles, trapeziums or orthogons. The repetition and colour contrasts of the motifs cause the observer’s eye to be seduced and deceived.
Jacobsen could spend hours sitting making minute variations to the highly abstract geometric textile patterns until he came up with the final result.
One example that serves to emphasise the contradictions in the very person of Arne Jacobsen – between the rational and strict modernist on the one hand, and the nature-loving romantic on the other.
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'Optik' Fabric

D E S I G N E R
Verner Panton

P R O D U C E R S
Kvadrat, Denmark
Maharam, United States

M A T E R I A L A N D D I M E N S I O N S
cotton
76% cotton - 24% polyester
In 6 colourways.

Optik was created in the 1960s and, as the name suggests, concerns a furnishing fabric with a strong optical art pattern, where the eye comes into play – both as regards the displaced graphics and colour combinations.
The furnishing fabric is quite reminiscent of the visual strength found in the work of the artist Vasarely, but the colours are definitely from the Panton universe: sunshine yellow/orange, red/carmine red, lilac/blue, lime/jade, blood red/red, ultramarine/violet and black/white. Optik was originally printed on cotton, but is now woven in a cotton/polyester fabric.

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