Future Tense Collection
Future Tense Collection
May 2019
The Future Tense Collection designed by Suzanne Tick highlights our progressive approach to textile design with an emphasis on super scale and the duality of materials. Non-traditional processes are applied to honest materials, providing new context. Each fabric requires a second look, encouraging interaction with the environment and promoting curiosity. Through questioning the tangible, we become more engaged with our surroundings.
Nodding to past eras characterized by large graphic applications and the elevation of everyday materials, the Future Tense Collection harnesses the power of textiles to simultaneously define and shift our spatial perspective. The five new fabrics are grounded in industrial design, celebrating advances in conscious manufacturing and sustainability. The expressive patterns and palettes are both bold and complex, reflecting the balance between harmony and discord.
Schema
Schema’s fragmented graphic pattern honors generations of restless designers; an awakening of brilliant color and disciplined lines in an attempt to dissolve space. Nodding to recurring visual cues, super graphic patterning shifts one’s notion of scale and context while bringing vitality to an interior.
Color Fuse
Color Fuse transforms natural materials, making the tangible intangible. Translucent high-performance poly-urethane is bonded to a chunky black and white cotton weave structure, creating a chromatic barrier between the user and the fiber below. The tinted color softens the effect of the contrasting substrate, while highlighting the depth of the weave. The palette represents the evolution of pastel colors toward soft but saturated hues with greater clarity of color.
Macrotweed
Macrotweed explores volume through texture and color. Marled and chunky yarns are blended to createa hyper-textural product. Amplified and graphic combinations mimic a multi-colored pattern, motivating the user to question suppositions about a textile’s color, dimension, and form. The palette challenges the expected and creates an explosion of graphic hue. Macrotweed highlights Luum’s exploration of scale, material, and construction.
Percept
This versatile recolor of a classic multi-purpose fabric now offers an extended palette of 27 colors. Sophisticated as a vertical fabric, its heavier weight and elegant textural surface make Percept perfectly suited for upholstery use. The developed palette includes essential colors, ranging from light to bright to deep. Combining the existing technical brights with a warm neutral, vibrant greens and a subtle pink creates a rich and bold palette. Percept is a true multi-purpose fabric designed for use as upholstery, panel and wrapped wall.
Elastic Wool
Highlighting the innovation that can be achieved through manufacturing partnerships, Elastic Wool repurposes existing manufacturing technology in response to current needs in the marketplace to create an entirely new material. Today’s curvilinear furniture presents new challenges for textile application. In response, elastomeric fiber is introduced to an intimate blend of wool and nylon and woven in conjunction with cationic polyester for a highly upholsterable and durable textile. The plain weave construction, often considered the most rigid structure, takes on an element of playfulness and spontaneity without sacrificing performance. The color palette encompasses bold brights, heathered hues and refined neutrals to highlight the integrity of the wool fiber. Elastic Wool’s understated design lends sophistication and elegance to this innovative fiber technology.