WOODish fabric. photo: Monique Jaoui
With an eye on emphasizing wood’s richest qualities from its amber hues to its lovely grain patterns, Alex Gunnarsson has transformed the material into something completely surprising and impressive.
This is WOODish, a fabric made in a fractal pattern of very thin wooden pieces. Because it’s made by hand and can’t be mass produced, every application is a unique one off.
I think this would make a lovely screen of some sort as the thin wood and spaces in between give it an interesting transparency. It would also add an exciting twist to curtains, wallpaper, tablecloths, and that sort of thing.
As for Alex, its interaction with light and ability to transform from two to three dimensions are particularly appealing. She’d like to see the fabric used in lighting.
photos by Monique Jaoui
Alex Gunnarsson graduated with a Master of Interior design, majoring in commercial spaces, from Barcelona’s Istituto Europeo di Design in 2009.
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10 comments on “wonderful wood fabric”
July 15
Wood … fabric!? Not something that I would have ever imagined, but I must say, it is magically beautiful. :)
July 18
Absolutely stunning…..want to see applications..!!….
July 21
Looovely!
July 24
For me it is just like a DREAM to see the light as it appears through wood. JUST WONDERFUL!
July 24
For me it is just like a dream to see the light as it appears through the wood. JUST WONDERFUL!
July 25
Spectacular! I absolutely adore it, would love for it to serve as a piece of art in my home!
July 31
Thank you for all your very flattering comments! And for a nice article in this lovely blog by Tiffany…
August 10
genius as usual my sweet al!
November 13
beautiful, but isn’t this just an imitation of the fragile wood textiles by Elisa Strozyk (which could be at imm cologne 2010) ??
cf. http://elisastrozyk.de/seite/woodtex/wooden%20textiles.html
November 16
beo – gosh, I have no idea how to know which came first or if either of the designers were inspired by each other, but both are absolutely gorgeous. Hopefully we’ll see at least one of them make it into regular production.
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