Explore the future of textiles, design, and interiors with Kvadrat insights. As new priorities emerge we provide a look into textile trends, designers, and thinkers leading the way in this new material landscape of well-being, nature, and community.
Whitepaper
Nearly 20% of the global population is neurodiverse. Many of these individuals bring unique creativity, spatial awareness, and problem-solving strengths. Embracing these differences through intentional design leads to more inclusive, higher-performing environments.
Design for Wellbeing
An environment promoting comfort, tranquillity, and aesthetic appeal can be crucial in the hospitality industry, as it impacts guest experience. Our textiles and textile-related solutions create spaces that look beautiful and support well-being.
Design for Wellbeing
In office spaces, textiles bring more than just aesthetic value.
From acoustics and comfort to visual appeal and functionality, textiles have the potential to transform the space into a hub of collaboration and connectivity.
Design Briefing
Will Jennings looks to recent designs for hospitals and healthcare settings to discover what is changing and ask what designers can learn from them about healthy interiors.
Environment
Recycling is a much talked-about solution to the sustainability challenges faced by the textile industry. Here we look at the current state of textile recycling and discuss the key challenges.
Environment
Kvadrat is launching a new strategy that charts the company’s ambition to lead the sustainability agenda for textiles. Here we look into how this will happen.
Watch
This beautiful film about the astonishing work of Japanese master dyer Sachio Yoshioka reassures us that abandoning synthetic dyes does not limit the range of textile colours possible.
Short
‘Boro – The Art of Necessity’ shows how craftsmanship can elevate old rags to an art, and a culture of reuse can become an opportunity for creativity.
Design for Wellbeing
Master colourist Giulio Ridolfo selects colours to sustain us as we navigate the tangled emotions and yearning for comfort and tranquility that characterise summer 2021.
Design Briefing
How has the design world reacted to society being turned upside down and our sense of touch denuded? In this Design Briefing, Grant Gibson explores how designers have reacted to ‘touch deprivation’ and how, as we’ve understood more about the virus, we have started to re-establish the importance of tactility.
Design for Wellbeing
Sevil Peach’s practice is known for creating human workplaces that put the needs of those who work there first. Here we talk to Sevil about the new design for Kvadrat’s headquarters and the designer’s role as a host.
Competition - Homeworking
Thank you to all the architects and designers who responded to our call. We much enjoyed getting a glimpse of your realities, and your fantasies. Congratulations to the winner Mustafa Afsaroglu.
Design Briefing
The challenges posed by the pandemic have thrown up all sorts of questions and initiated the most dramatic shift in workplace culture in decades. We look to the leaders in office design to see how they are imagining a more humane and productive future for the workplace.
Competition - Homeworking
It is now a year since the majority of us were abruptly thrown into ‘WFH’, ill-prepared and with no support. Learning from the pandemic and its aftermath, ReThink will explore the latest research and ideas about work – in the office, at home, and in between. Homeworking is a call to designers and architects to submit a photo of your current homework set-up, together with a visual and short text describing your ideal home workplace and how your experiences of the pandemic period have informed this.
Design for Wellbeing
The latest Maggie’s center at The Royal Marsden hospital by Ab Rogers Design valiantly reflects the belief of founders Maggie and Charles Jencks in the power of the environment to heal. As the late Charles Jencks said, Maggie’s centres are built from the ‘Architecture of hope’. Here Ab Rogers reflects on the 12 principles that inform his life-affirming design.
Radical Thinking
Taking Time, the title of the solo exhibition by Anupama Kundoo at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art until 16 May has turned out to be uncannily prescient. In the last year our sense of time has changed fundamentally and many of us are questioning how we ‘use’ this finite resource. Anupama talks to Jane Withers about how this subject has preocupied her from the outset of her career and led her to question aspects of architecture and construction and propose alternative systems that put ‘taking time’ rather than ‘saving’ time at the centre of discourse.