Introduction

Tomorrows designfront runners, is the codeword for the new growth of labs, lots of awards and international breakthroughs for the staff and students of The Royal Danish Academy, School of Design. The School of Design is a modern design school with an international and conscientious perspective, and in 2013 we will continue to take on a number of major design tasks. We work in a wide array of contexts to make The Royal Danish Academy, School of Design a power house for design, not just in Denmark but also abroad, through collaboration with international educa-tion and research institutions and business partners where crea-tivity, innovative methods, and experiments with form and mate-rials go hand in hand with advanced research and the latest new knowledge in the field.

Our vision is to offer programmes that are the unique result of in-teractions of creativity, innovative methods, research and material-oriented projects. We want to ensure that our graduates command methods and tools that enable them to continue to develop their design skills professionally and to engage in dynamic partnerships. With this we want to help revitalize awareness of, and respect for, Danish design worldwide.

For nearly 140 years, School of Design has contributed to the de-velopment of Danish design with an international reach. The school is founded on the Nordic design tradition, where functionality and aesthetics go hand in hand with business sense, and today it is a modern, business-oriented design school where groundbreaking partnerships, ambitious visions and new technologies go hand in hand with creative artistic development and professional innovation.

We offer a five-year education within design - consist-ing of a three-year Bachelor and a two-year advanced programme at MA level. Beside this we offer a three year highly regarded craft programme in Glas and Ceramics at our department in Bornholm.

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of De-sign has 650 students and a staff of 110 in Copenhagen and on Bornholm. Each year, we accept up to 105 stu-dents into the BA programme in Copenhagen and up to 27 on Bornholm, and we receive guest lecturers and ex-change students from every corner of the global design map every semester.

Tine Kjølsen / Head of School of Design

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The exhibited pieces on this fair stand are the results of a ten week school project with the title “The New Textile Furniture”. The goal in this project has, for each student, been to design and built innovative seating furniture based on textile principles. Instead of considering the textile as something being added to the furniture after the design process, the textile universe is here the main focus of the designs. After being introduced and thought in tradi-tional upholstery techniques, the students have worked with different ma-terials in different scales. The techniques were introduced by experts from the relevant fields. In other words, in a combination of hand and spirit, the students have created new expressions, functions and techniques looking upside-down on the principles of how to use textile in furniture. The key word has been the experiment, both considering form and artistic manner, as well

as the connection between construction and aesthetics.

The New Textile Furniture

The ExhibitionThe Royal Danish Academy Of Fine Arts School Of Design are proud to introduce...

The concept of the school’s stall is based on the idea of Metamorphosis:

The biological process from cocoon to butterfly. This transformation is used as a reflector of the phases we students are passing through during our design process. Here, the furniture develops from the initial idea to the final form. Additionally, it reflects the phases of development that each individual student are going through, throughout the years of education, and beyond.Through the light and the surfaces of the stall we have created a vibrant space that draws the viewer into an untamed creative investigative and experimental environment that is continually in progress.

Metamorphosis

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The students12 students show their interpreatation of the new textile furniture

This furniture is made from the concept of “time to wait”, a bench for the semi-public space where laten-cy may occur. A furniture that is easy to read , made in bright ash with a classic grey tekstile reference. The bench does not hide any big secrets in its shape, but it can be transformed if needed, for more seating.

Emil Krøyer

Contact: emkro@edu.kadk.dk // emilkroyer.dk

“Latency”

Sponsors: Kvadrat and Davinde savværk A/S

“A Brilliant Chair”

The idea of this lounge chair was to make it soft and comfortable, yet still transparent and light in its expression. The shape is inspired by the brilliant - a transparent object, cut in shape to play with light. With the use of alternative upholstery materials, the vertical surfaces of this chair have become trans-lucent and soft. In this way the chair preserves the light flow and lines of architecture, in its interaction with the surrounding space.

Eva Fly

evfly@edu.kadk.dk /www.evafly.dk /

+45 24915433

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Sponsors: Gabriel & Kvadrat

The aim was to challenge the limits of the theme “the new textile furniture”. As such the appear-ance of the chair’s shell is the result of investigat-ing the potential of veneer for wicker work - i.e. of using a non-textile material in a textile way. Dur-ing the process much attention has been paid to the differences in the tactile nature of different materials. H:75cm – W:86cm – D:63cm

Mads Sætter Lassen

Contact:www.madssl.dk

Sponsors:Optimera and danskmøbeldesign.dk

Mathias Weber

“MAWR12”

A choice of high-quality materials combined to meet the modern aesthetics and need of change in expression as well as function. The body of carved oak-tree, carries the woolen mattress, but also function to fixate the move-able back-rests. By inserting the two back-rests into its simple metal-undercarriage, the furni-ture is expandable from 150-200cm in length, inviting its owner and guests to rest.

Contact: +45 25 65 68 01 / mathiaswebr@gmail.com www.mathiasweber.dk Credits: Kvadrat, sponsor of fabrics.

Carina Ellegaard Jacobsen

“A piece of knit” For the project “ The new textile furni-ture” I wanted to create a furniture with textile as the main material. Therefore, I knitted a textile and braced it, so when it dries, it keeps the shape without any framework. In a furniture context, textile is often used to improve comfort. This is why I didn’t shore up the whole fabric. This means that the textile works as both the bearing and comfortable part of the furniture.

Contact:Carinaellegaard@gmail.com tlf:0045 40922911 //Cajac1@edu.kadk.dk

Hardened Leather Chair is made with an old technique for hardening leather in a 100% natu-ral way. The technique has been used for corsets and armours, and is now being used as self-sup-ported upholstery for a dining chair. The shape of the chair, which is commonly seen in plastic, gets a Nordic materiality by the use of leather and the frame of light ash.

Contact:+ 45 60 15 99 40 /n.steenfatt@gmail.comwww.steenfatt.dk

Nikolaj Steenfatt

“Hardened Leather Chair”

Sponsors:

“ÆDT”

In the development of this bench, the focus has been on creating a narrative seating furniture, that balance between the aesthetic and non aesthetic, accommodating and repulsive .The design of the bench is inspired by worms, guts and by organic takeover of the man-made.The bench is not supposed to tell this exact story, but to ignite the viewers imagination.

Contact: aslar@edu.kadk.dk

Astrid Tolnov Larsen

Jesper Su Rosenmeier

“HVIL”

Hvil means rest and is created with the in-tention to create a private sphere, a private break in the hectic everyday lives. The idea is taken from our childhood freedom - here we made caves and created our own private room, rooms where the time stood still, and there were no stress - only freedom.

Contact:surosenmeier@gmail.comtlf: 0045 26 17 00 26

Dorothee Mainka

“Armin”

The armchair “armin“ is inspired of the homeliness and “retreat cave” feeling. “Armin“ gives you a sense of pro-tection, it is soft, pleasant and comfortable. The shape grows out of a concave curve at the right side to a con-vex curve or wave in the left side. The soft-felt weav-ing structure hides the metallconstruction. It gives you many opportunitites to sit, you have a optimal dynam-ic of your human postures. You can recharge your bat-teries after work, calm down, or simply relax.

Contact: dorothee.mainka@gmx.dedomai@edu.kadk.dk

Sponsors: Kvadrat and Gabriel

Martyna Golik

“DIPDIP”

I wanted to create a personal space, a kind of asylum that can provide user with peace and relaxation. Of main importance to me was the nature of the light and influence which it exerts. dip dyed membrane is strong enough to hold a person and at the same time to keep away from the outside world.

contact:magol@edu.kadk.dk // www.martynagolik.com

Anne-Kathrin Kühner

“The Membrane Chair”

The membrane chair consists of two textile layers with contrary functions. The first layer is a semi-transparent fabric that dimly shows the inner second layer, a woven structure that forms the inner seat. In the movement of sit-ting on the chair, the person’s body sinks into the first layer and finds a fixed and comfortable seat position on the second one.

Contact: anne_kuehner@web.de

Ilona Damski

“Feast for the eyes”

Chair inspired by woven structures and optical illusions. The intension was to create a visually attractive and at the same time a comfort-able chair.

Contact:ilona.damski@aalto.fi0045 91 62 52 33

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