Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Floor Skrabanja has created a collection of seats with single-piece 3D-knitted upholstery that needs no gluing or stitching, so can easily be deconstructed.

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The series features a chair , stool and bench , each covered with a seamless, continuous piece of fabric that is slipped on like a sleeve and bound to the frame with a contrasting orange cord. The upholstery fabric is 3D-knitted – a fabrication method which combines digital pattern-making with the knitting process.

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The process replicates 3D printing’s ability to scale and multiply a pattern, in order to create complex designs at specified sizes. The knitted yarns that make up the fabric can be unraveled in order for the threads to be re-knitted as another piece of furniture in future. “Like with 3D printing, you code a shape on the computer and then you can reproduce it endlessly,” Skrabanja told Dezeen. “The […]

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