Best in show på Copenhagen International Furniture Fair
Cecilie Manz prizes
innovative material
The +1 diploma for 2007 goes to Grethe Sørensen for the furniture fabric Interferens. The annual award is handed out by the magazine Forum AID and is awarded to the furniture fair’s most interesting innovation. This is the second year that the +1 diploma is awarded at the furniture fair in Copenhagen.
This year the diploma goes to the weaver and textile designer Grethe Sørensen, who has been working since the beginning of the seventies and who has been involved with both artistic decoration of public environments and textile designs for Georg Jensen Damask and Kvadrat.
The judge was designer Cecilie Manz, last year’s recipient of the +1-diploma.
This is her motivation:
”Interferens is very well carried out, an ascetic design whereby the form shows the designer’s persuasive handling of modern weaving technology.”
She continues: “With Interferens, technology and artistic expression have been combined into a larger entirety, where one can see how the computer has been used, not just as a tool in the process, but also through the fact that it has resulted in the 3D animations beingc the motif. The long three-metre pattern repeat combined with the character of the motif is very interesting as it opens up the possibilities for discreet deviations. It is possible with Interferens to create interiors where no two chairs will be identical without ruining a closely connected general impression.”
“Interferens is a result of the possibility of using computers in working with pattern development,” says Grethe Sørensen about Interferens’s organic patterns. “With the new drawing programmes, textile designers have been given totally new possibilities than we previously had when working with paper. Technological development means a change in the design world. In the case of Interferens I have investigated many different pattern combinations and worked with different forms in different layers and finally achieved those organic forms and movement in the pattern with the help of the computer. As a weaver I see technical development positively as, amongst other things, it makes it possible to create photo-realistic patterns. It is nothing I personally work with, but I am convinced that technology will change the view of textile design.”
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Grethe Sørensen is chiefly known for the public decoration she has carried out in Denmark. Her textiles have also been shown at exhibitions in Denmark, Europe, South America, Japan and the United States.
Interferens is made entirely of wool. The pattern comes in two variations and is available in 24 different colour schemes. Width 140 cm.
Manufacturer: Kvadrat through Anders Byriel.
The rules for the +1 are the simplest imaginable. From the selection shown at the Copenhagen International Furniture Fair, Forum AID chooses this year’s novelty. Thus possible prize winners are any of the objects on show – furniture, lighting, textiles, fittings – whether large or small. One judge chooses the winning object. The winner has the task of making the selection. In this way the same designer will never be in a position to win in two consecutive years. Previous winner was Cecilie Manz (2006) for the pendant lamp Caravaggio.
For further information contact Forum AID’s editor-in-chief Daniel Golling (+46 730 48 10 75); Grethe Sørensen (+45 7558 2025); Cecilie Manz (+45 2625 1164); Kvadrat: Thea Hyltoft Svensson (+45 2557 2501).
