Quando si pensa ai numerosi impieghi della lana, l'interior design non balza subito alla mente. Applicazioni come le stoffe per abiti e la maglieria sembrano i più ovvi, naturalmente, considerati i modi in cui indossiamo questi capi di vestiario tutto l'anno. Eppure, oltre a tappeti e fodere, la lana gioca un ruolo sempre più importante nella progettazione della casa, grazie alla ricerca, ai miglioramenti produttivi e all'innovazione del design che ne consentono l'utilizzo per elementi che spaziano fino a tende, biancheria da letto, illuminazione, creazioni artistiche e oggetti decorativi. Con la sua finitura di lusso, l’innata facilità di manutenzione e le proprietà salutari, la lana è la scelta ideale per qualsiasi ambiente interno.
THE DREAMWEAVING PROJECT
Weave your own wall art
This woven wool wall hanging is accomplished on a simple loom which will hold the cotton warp as the wool weft is passed in and out with the fingers. Australian artist Natalie Miller’s tutorial will arm you with an array of different techniques that you can achieve with tapestry weaving.
Wool interiors
Maharam’s future vision
There are few companies with as storied history as Maharam, which was founded in 1902 by Russian-born American immigrant Louis Maharam. From a pushcart near Manhattan’s Wall Street, Louis sold fabric remnants, a business venture that subsequently evolved to become a storefront in New York City’s midtown.Today, the company works collaboratively with a range of artists and designers on its collections, creating an open dialogue across varied disciplines so as to offer its customers – largely architects and interior designers – something innovative.
Wool interiors
Off the Wall
Having crafted a reputation with more than 50 years of material-based artworks, Sheila Hicks shows no signs of slowing down. Her favoured medium is wool and other natural fibres but abandon here all visions of macrame; Hicks has been using textiles since the 1970s to make work that straddles the realms of art, craft and architecture, exploring scale from intimate weavings to large monumental installations that challenge the properties of her chosen medium in ways that are always surprising and never cliché.
Shoot: Masseria Moments
Denise Lithgow Designs wool pot; MCM House wooden chair, dining table and chair; Città wool blanket; Great Dane Furniture sheepskin throw; Alex and Trahanas ceramics; Oon wool cushions, vase and bowl; Ondene black ceramic bowl; Emily Ziz wool cushions; Jardan wool throw; Knitpro needles and yarn, from Cast Off Collective.
Little Dandelion knitted wool bowl, from Cast Off Collective.
MCM House timber bench; Little Dandelion woven wool bowl, from Cast Off Collective; Denise Lithgow Designs spiral wool vessels; Tammy Kanat ‘Sunrays’ wool tapestry.
Ligne Roset wool armchair, from Domo; Città wool throw.
Little Dandelion woven wool bowl, from Cast Off Collective; MCM House ‘Joe’ bed; In Bedsheets and pillowcases; Cittàtassel and long cushion; Ronel Jordaan wool pebble cushion; Jardan wool blanket; Cast Off Collective knitted wool throw.
Alex and Trahanas plates; Oon knitted wool bowl and cushion.
Crossing Threads wool wall hanging.
Denise Lithgow Designs wool pot; MCM House wooden chair, dining table and chair; Citta wool blanket; Great Dane Furniture sheepskin throw; Alex and Trahanas ceramics; Oon wool cushions, vase and bowl; Emily Ziz wool cushions; Jardan wool throw; Knitpro needles and yarn.
"Definisco la lana come una fibra meravigliosa. Se la lana venisse inventata oggi, sarebbe una cosa sensazionale – le sue prestazioni sono in grado di superare quelle di qualsiasi fibra sintetica – e il fatto che sia una creazione della natura è fenomenale".