Last year, the Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs of Lyon, hosted the exhibit Lo sguardo laterale /A sideways glance - Moroso and exploration in decorative arts and design. The event show-cased two creative Italian firms: furniture maker, Moroso and weaver, Rubelli.
Very seductive in itself -
this 18th century Philippe de Lasalle textile document was chosen from the Lyon museum archives
to be part the upholstery project.
The element of fun in Rubelli's recreation of this design is in the ground of the fabric. Those graphic squares are a woven representation of the point paper used for the technical drawing that is usually seen only by the manufacturer. The design is brought into the 21st century with the discreet modernity and a sort of 'textilian' inside joke!
The fabric was made on a warp of 9600 fine yarns of organzine silk woven with none less than 12 wefts - 11 of viscose and 1 metallic yarn. The Italian weaver explains, "... 50/60 wefts per centimetre are normally used for a rich fabric, as many as 180 were used for this precious brocade." |
| photo: Rubelli |
this 18th century Philippe de Lasalle textile document was chosen from the Lyon museum archives
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| photo: Rubelli |
The element of fun in Rubelli's recreation of this design is in the ground of the fabric. Those graphic squares are a woven representation of the point paper used for the technical drawing that is usually seen only by the manufacturer. The design is brought into the 21st century with the discreet modernity and a sort of 'textilian' inside joke!
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| photo: Rubelli chair design Patricia Urquiola |
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| photo: Rubelli |
