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The Organized Complexity collection by Suzanne Tick features 6 textiles that explore human connection in tandem with nature—which continuously finds ways to fit form to function, collectively-evolving in pursuit of a greater equilibrium. Through pattern work, manufacturing techniques, and materiality, Organized Complexity reveals the ways in which humans can mirror the natural systems around us to better relate with one another. Pairing a bright, accented palette with biodegradable and recycled fibers, this integrated toolkit of multipurpose, wrapped wall, drapery, and upholstery textiles packs a colorful punch with deep reverence for nature—creating opportunities for renewed vitality in any space.

Juxtapose reflects the beauty of nature’s imperfections with large-scale, wood-grain-like variation. Fitting form to function, Juxtapose’s full-width organic pattern camouflages the seams for wallcovering installations with a subtle vertical flow—creating areas that are dense and others that are more open. All 6 nature-inspired colorways are designed to work as a textile alternative to wood veneer, for the wall and for a more holistic space.

Acoustically absorbent, light-dimming, and soft to the touch, Focal Point drapery honors the role of acoustics in deep intrapersonal connection with fire-retardant and Clean Air Gold-certified velvet. Focal Point’s 8 rich colorways—dramatic reds, deep blues and greens—exist to create conversation between the areas in any space, from window backdrops in hospitality to breakout areas in corporate settings.

Limitless Loop is a dimensional, quilted textile made for upholstery and wrapped wall. Inspired by the fractal patterns found in nature, Limitless Loop’s geometric curves pass through every point on its surface, tracing and retracing their paths for a subtle, in-and-out fade. Neutrals and pops of color are embroidered with nylon stitching to Limitless Loop’s base cloth, Cult Classic, as well as a polyfill base—creating a soft, pillowy surface.

Comprising five sustainable and super-natural textiles by Suzanne Tick, the Super Natural collection paves the way for more environmentally-conscious performance textiles—emphasizing natural, renewable, domestic, recycled, biodegradable and circular fiber systems wherever possible.

Inspired by our relationship with nature, Super Natural features a palette that finds harmony between the man-made and the organic—balancing warm and cool textures, black and white hues and the softer colors of nature with the more saturated colors of fashion. Combining craftsmanship with the durability of renewable materials, this collection weaves patterns and textures into comfortable, classic, and technical textiles to meet the needs of contract and hospitality spaces. Working in tandem with nature and its organizing powers, we take part of its system, presenting a collection that feels good and does good, too.

Inspired by nature’s organizing principles, Rubric’s multicolor block pattern plays with scale and repetition to create dynamic movement in an underlying grid—weaving the complex melanges of North American wool in the weft with a recycled cotton blend in the warp. Woven with natural fibers on a double beam loom, Rubric’s multicolor block pattern draws inspiration from nature’s organizing principles—playing with scale, color, and repetition to yield dynamic movement in an underlying grid.

A timelessly modern textile, Everyday Boucle tells a circular fiber story. Combining recycled warp and weft yarns with a hyper-textural wool blend boucle, pre- and post-consumer recycled wool, acrylic, and polyester from garments are shredded and re-spun into richly-colored melange yarns that retain their original colors.

The world is shaped by the way we move. Earthly Artifacts is a collection by Suzanne Tick that features four textiles inspired by the physical impressions left by humans on the earth—and the patterns created in the process. Drawing from shared elements across art, anthropology and geology, Earthly Artifacts examines the impact and expression of nature’s organizing principles: discernable up close and undeniable at scale. Made with a variety of high-performance, recycled materials selected for multi-purpose and indoor/outdoor use—such as high-UV polyester, high-UV polypropylene, and 100% recycled polyester—Geoglyph, Pebble Melange, Particulate and Megacheck reflect our continuous desire to immerse ourselves in nature. These textiles feature layered fields of multi-color materials that create complex earthen shades, reminiscent of contemporary art and archaeological remnants. Both abstract and representational, the Earthly Artifacts collection tells the story of topography through the lens of human intervention and the collective form of many individual paths—weaving new meaning into our relationship with the earth.

Fragmented and textural, emerging and fading, Geoglyph’s large-scale grid pattern mirrors the impressions we leave on the Earth, progressing from the ordered to the eroded. A nod to the graphic patterns of geoglyphs — works of art created by arranging objects within a landscape — this upholstery textile utilizes high-UV boucle and blended yarns, making it bleach-cleanable and suitable for indoor/outdoor use alongside its coordinate, Pebble Melange. Balancing the linear qualities of architecture and the groundedness of earth, Geoglyph inspires deeper engagement with the outside world — with spectrums of vivid color that honor the beauty and vitality of nature.

What we build together creates the shape of our future. The Structural Dimension collection by Suzanne Tick is a grouping of four textiles that encourages us to explore a deeper vision of how spaces can be built. Multi-dimensional structures and classic building materials are created using fiber and construction technology, facilitating connection between users in the interior and providing opportunities for breaks from the use of two-dimensional screens. At once tactile and colorful, each textile in the Structural Dimension collection awakens the subtlety of our senses using the dimensional craft of weaving.

Developed on the Tick Studio loom, Graph Speck breathes new life into discarded wool, acrylic, and polyester through each of its 16 colorways — emulating the angles of architecture with sustainable yarn-spinning practices. Graph Speck shreds pre- and post-consumer recycled garments into colorful fibers, transforming them into complex melange yarns with purpose and precision. The textile’s broken twill structure uses a color and weave effect to tailor dimensional multi-color patterns that coordinate directly with its predecessors, Wool Fleck and Melange Check. Graph Speck extends Luum’s color offering from past to present — creating more opportunities for color, texture, and pattern within any space.

Fabric of Space, a collection of five textiles by Suzanne Tick, draws inspiration from the ever-expanding universe — intersecting the matrices of time, matter, and energy to weave the world around us.

Using new techniques, these textiles embody the vivid colors and patterns of the stars, the vibrational qualities of sound and light, and the geological layers of Earth. Renewable and recycled fibers, paired with cutting-edge weaving and coating techniques, produce multi-layered materiality for any contemporary interior.

As we adjust to new environments and ways of communicating, acoustics are a pivotal part of our sensorial and emotional experience in a space. Spectral Array’s multi-color, large scale pattern nods directly to this phenomenon, taking inspiration from spectrograms; diagrams that map the amplitude of light and sound waves emitted during a physical event, such as the firing of neurons in the brain. Spectral Array’s generous pattern, at 54” horizontal and 110” vertical, envelops the user in organic, colorful movement and opens the possibilities for large expanses of color and pattern on furniture. Independent moments of chenille and slub yarns collage together creating a greater whole, bringing softness and luxury to the hand of the fabric for a tactile experience. Spectral Array comes in 8 distinctive colorways, is bleach cleanable and has high-UV indoor lightfast performance.

Equal parts wool-blend and cotton, Emergent combines renewable yarns into a new hybrid material. Using a needle punch process, Emergent’s highly unique and tactile surface is created when color contrasting boucle cotton loops emerge through the surface of the smooth and heathered wool-blend face. With its all over texture and no visible pattern repeat, Emergent’s speckled surface is reminiscent of the abundance of stars in the night sky. Emergent upholsters beautifully on the curves of furniture and comes in 11 color combinations ranging from vivid to classic, allowing for a variety of applications.

Welded upholstery brings the art of woven textiles to coated form using a new fusing technology. Like the Earth’s core and crust, Welded is multi-layered: colorwork was developed from scratch and polyester fibers were woven into a ground cloth to create a color-and-weave effect, a technique where alternating light and dark or contrasting colors of yarns work together to achieve a dimensional effect. The ground cloth is then coated with a clear thermoplastic elastomer, or TPE. Welded’s coating behaves as a clear barrier, making it ink and stain resistant, wipeable, bleach cleanable and highly upholsterable for high traffic areas such as healthcare, education and workplace.

Outdoor In by Suzanne Tick, offers four bleach-cleanable performance textiles for indoor-outdoor spaces in hospitality, higher education and corporate environments—bringing new, pivotal products to these hybrid spaces. Showcasing forward-thinking textile design, Outdoor In utilizes high-UV fibers, new coated technology and recycled polyester yarns to enhance user experience and flexibility in both the interior and exterior.

New textures and patterns in this collection extend the Luum line, ranging from weaverly and sophisticated to organic and playful. The pattern work expresses themes of distortion and reflection, referencing both digital and analog processes and showing the new ways in which we negotiate virtual and in-person communication.

As we rethink the ways life, work and communication influence design, outdoor accessibility continues to prove a major influence in design equity. Whether indoors or outdoors, walls, panels, screens and seating can be re-adjusted in real time throughout the day with ease, unlocking the full creativity within.

Designed on Tick Studio’s loom using melange yarns and a striated weft, Megapixel is Luum’s first indoor-outdoor chenille textile. Featuring a chunky, tactile woven surface, Megapixel’s handmade sensibility is paired with high UV and bleach cleanable fibers, which maintains the ideal performance qualities for contemporary environments. Inspired by traditional fiber techniques like cording, each yarn in Megapixel interacts to display an interwoven visual effect that is highly dimensional and reaches 2,000 hours of lightfastness. The 12 colorways in this palette vary in depth and shade, providing an option to suit a variety of applications.

Wavefield is a multicolor, mid-scale organic pattern for upholstery in indoor-outdoor spaces. Discovered through a Tick Studio brainstorming session, Wavefield’s pattern was developed by layering fluted glass over prints of geometric artwork in repeat. The resulting pattern, when woven, is a deep, textural design that warps and undulates, transforming like new methods of communication in shifting environments. Wavefield ’s recycled UV fibers are bleach cleanable and reach 1,200 hours of lightfastness, providing performance attributes to indoor-outdoor spaces, atriums, hospitality and corporate environments.

Using recycled, renewable, local and biodegradable fiber technology, Rare Earth displays a new way forward with a lighter footprint.

As we recalibrate to new ways of working, living and communicating, we observe the importance of nature in our everyday lives. Moreover, we reflect on the physical impact humans have made on the environment from overconsumption, and the physical impact the changing environment has on us in return in the form of climate change.

In the collection, we explore shapes that mirror migration maps, agricultural outlines and geological boundaries stemming from human activity. Bright synthetics and natural hues work together, embodying the balance of nature and technology working together. Textures resemble patina, symbolizing movement and the passage of time. Bold colors derived from nature sparkle like raw minerals in the sunshine and soft hues glow like the moon.

Inspired by the linear shapes of modern agriculture and the bright colors of algae and sediment from San Francisco’s salt flats, Mitered’s multi-color motifs recall classic wools with a contemporary twist. Using bright and rich color combinations, Mitered’s materiality shifts our perspective toward sustainable and local materials through the use of two unique yarns. sEach melange wool yarn contains up to six colors of North American wool, while upcycled cotton from the textile industry is combined with polyester for added performance. Mitered’s handcrafted sensibility emulates the analog and counteracts the digital, providing a large scale pattern that is suitable for collaborative, breakout lounges and task seating.

Collective Conscious by Suzanne Tick features four textiles that reflect our readjustment to a slower, more connected life. Highlighting predominantly domestic innovation and craftsmanship, this collection focuses on enhanced user comfort and wellness. From upholstery to vertical to drapery, purposeful design meets the needs of the time.

Inspired by contemporary craft, Collective Conscious evokes textures of artisanal handmade surfaces like hand-wovens, embroideries and woodworking by utilizing renewable, recycled and biodegradable* materials. From the simplicity of the grid and the complexity of the weave draft, to the colors emerging in contemporary fashion, we re-think how materiality works for the spaces we occupy.

As needs in a space shift and new challenges arise, comfort and tactility remain essential to functional design. Collective Conscious provides performance and multipurpose products in a range of vivid brights, complex neutrals and tonal hues that infuse a space with coordinating color, texture and pattern. From upholstery, to panel, and wrapped wall and drapery, each textile works in tandem for a holistic interior.

Grid State advances the conversation around sustainability. As Luum’s first – and the contract textile industry’s first – textile made of post-consumer recycled biodegradable polyester*, Grid State is all about evolution. Not only does its recycled, biodegradable fiber content lessen impact on the environment but it also provides more design solutions with its bleach-cleanable and multipurpose-use properties. Grid State’s motif is borrowed directly from the textile development process, transforming graphic dobby weave drafts into colorful jacquard artwork, then woven into the textile’s final form. Through exploring the concept of the grid, a starting point for designers and makers, we contemplate new beginnings.

Even through the smallest crack in the pavement, nature finds a way to break through. In Second Nature, Luum’s first contemporary floral pattern, a botanical motif emerges from an architectural stitched pattern, expressing nature’s ability to regenerate and challenging our perceptions of traditional floral patterns. Using the wool-blend solid Construct as a base cloth, Second Nature’s linear stitching refers to structure while transforming the surface of the fabric, inviting us to reimagine our relationship with the natural environment.

Fleece’s lofty surface emerges from the volume and natural variegation of its wool fiber blend. Here, the interaction between raw material and design is inherently structural, rather than stylized or applied. Within its lush blend of twisted wool, cotton and polyester, the fibers bloom, cuddling the surfaces of furniture and grounding the user in a space.

Fleece’s lofty surface emerges from the volume and natural variegation of its wool fiber blend. Here, the interaction between raw material and design is inherently structural, rather than stylized or applied. Within its lush blend of twisted wool, cotton and polyester, the fibers bloom, cuddling the surfaces of furniture and grounding the user in a space.

Stratiform offers a large-scale striated pattern with luminescent hues and a handwoven sensibility for wrapped wall and panel applications. Joining vertical textiles Rhetoric, Lustrado and Mica Shift, which were also developed on the hand loom at Tick Studio, Stratiform’s modified jacquard structure also features metallic polypropylene tape which stands out against a solid warp, adding dimension and movement. Stratiform is made of 52% recycled polyester with a palette of classic light tones and sophisticated warms and cools.

As we enter a new decade, opportunities and ideas emerge, encouraging new ways of seeing. Second Sight by Suzanne Tick is a collection of four upholstery textiles with a vision – exuding optimism, reflection and a focus on responsible materials like wool, silicone and recycled polyester. With clarity of intent, Second Sight celebrates the possibilities of design processes that advance environmental thought, sparking a return to purity of raw materials. Spirited use of color is seen throughout, offering vivid and nuanced colorways that when integrated into the materials, refresh our perspectives with playful simplicity. The dynamism of exaggerated, angular architecture facades and sculptural furniture inspires and elevates graphic pattern, allowing the interior environment to reflect the exterior. Through this interplay of sustainable materials, joyful color and architectural motifs, new possibilities are created, crystallizing the user experience with a revived energy and outlook for the future.

Engineered with the environment at heart, both built and natural, Top Coat is a performance faux leather made from 100% silicone. Without the presence of additives, silicone inherently rejects microbiological growth, making it widely applicable in corporate, education, healthcare and hospitality settings. In addition, Top Coat is has increased elasticity and subtle texture with a color palette range that encompasses deep colors, synthetic brights and evocative neutrals. PVC-free silicone supports indoor air quality, while its performance capabilities are expansive: inherently ink and denim resistant, anti-microbial, anti-fungal and bleach and viricide cleanable.

Flex Wool is a versatile textile that embodies a blend of age-old manufacturing techniques and new design processes to address unique performance-related opportunities. An indirect coordinate to Elastic Wool, Flex Wool’s larger and more textural weave structure is derived from a wool and nylon blend mixed with cationic polyester and elastane, providing a contrasted and vibrant color palette that allows durability and stretch. Flex Wool’s flexible structure lends itself to the exaggerated, curvilinear angles of furniture, opening up new possibilities and further applications.

A celebration of raw materials, Construct elevates the classic wool solid. Construct is a vehicle for color, lending a new lease on design with a wide range of tinted neutrals, rich mainstays and saturated bright hues that are simple, playful and beautiful. The wool fiber’s worsted quality has an inherent subtle luster and smooth hand, while the nylon content enhances the intrinsic performance of wool. Highly upholsterable, Construct’s durable makeup and palette enhance the look and form of furniture

The Future Tense collection designed by Suzanne Tick highlights our progressive approach to textile design and 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’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. By juxtaposing graphic geometries with pure hues, curvilinear forms are reintroduced in spaces both built and imagined. Digital dream spaces signify our vision of utopia, while the built environment increasingly breaks from norms and requires deeper engagement. Schema’s textural materiality is impactful and grounding, while imaginative and vivid colors speak to possibilities of the cerebral.

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.

Tilt Shift’s linear design and use of recycled cotton encourages us to shift our value system toward sustainability. The post-industrial and post-consumer cotton used in Tilt Shift is derived from apparel waste, which is carefully sorted by color, shredded, and spun into yarn.Inspired by the isometric language and forced perspective of architectural drawings, the parallax pattern engages the viewer, prompting a new outlook. The progressive palette encompasses a range of unexpected color combinations of neutrals and bold brights, to reflect a contrast of artificial and natural components.

The Woven Logic Collection by Suzanne Tick highlights anomalies in automated structures and celebrates weaving from simple, plain and basket weaves along with more complex constructions. The five new fabrics feature these hidden complexities within inherently durable material constructions. Each fabric represents an exploration in fiber development with sophisticated color palettes.

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.

Digi Tweed is a hyper-textural multi-purpose product that is a direct coordinate to Heather Tech. The irregular texture and expansive palette speaks to the need for interior spaces to reflect the natural world. The exaggerated texture and tonal coloration offers designers an opportunity to explore visual dualities through the use of contrasting surfaces. Digi Tweed’s palette draws inspiration from honest and natural materials.

As the distinction between our work, home and social activities continues to dissolve, Knurl is a textural upholstery fabric that comfortably lives in a contract or residential setting. The straightforward weave structure allows thick, knubby rows of polyester yarns to shine. The exaggerated texture provides opportunities to create visual interest through texture and color. The palette offers saturated chartreuse and teal, as well as fiery reds and a range of sophisticated neutrals.