Ikea Introduces The 3D-Knitted Chair

While inward Älmhult, Sweden concluding year nosotros had the run a hazard to persuasion IKEA's PS 2017 collection (in image versions) as well as come upwards Feb the collection volition live on inward stores.  But they late showed off the actual production late as well as ane that stood out to us was their 3D-knitted armchair.  We interviewed Product Developer, James Futcher who explained the process.

"This year's PS collection 2017 is all virtually comfort as well as it's virtually exploring what comfort is because today comfort is rattling static, thick as well as bulky, how tin nosotros await at defining comfort inward a unlike way. So that's ane of the challenges for the PS collection. But also to brand a collection that is young, funky, it has an mental attitude for the novel young, many that are moving into the cities. So the big starting cry for for the collection, to truly brand certain nosotros travel amongst democratic design, was to convey workshops roughly comfort as well as solving life at habitation for living inward pocket-sized spaces as well as to truly brainstorm those ideas. But earlier the designers could set pen to newspaper nosotros truly took them all to factories as well as suppliers to empathize materials as well as techniques thence so nosotros could truly develop inward the IKEA agency as well as that's when we're best on the manufactory floor, to truly empathize cloth as well as techniques thence that nosotros tin blueprint products that volition solve people's needs at home, only also products that nosotros tin make."

"One of the products we've been working on, is a quite interesting chair.  We decided to travel amongst a lot of known materials that nosotros tin empathize as well as travel with, metal, forest as well as textiles only hither nosotros were presented amongst a technique called "3D knitting" which y'all encounter a lot on flyknit (Nike) trainers, as well as it's a agency of knitting a frame for a chair without whatever stitching, rattling lightweight, rattling sparse as well as if y'all sit down on it, it's rattling comfy."

Here's a moving painting of the image nosotros showtime were introduced to:

We're loving the lightweight semi-translucent experience to it.  Great for an component or casual space. 

The 3D-knitted chair comes inward burgundy as well as grayness as well as volition live on available Feb 2017. See to a greater extent than from the IKEA PS 2017 collection inward our post service here.