Sneak Peek - Ikea's Ps 2017 Prototypes
Thursday, 14 May 2015
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While inwards Älmhult nosotros had the direct a opportunity to thought IKEA's PS 2017 collection (in image versions) together with beak to Product Developer, James Futcher close the ideas behind the collection which he worked on along amongst Creative Leader, Marcus Engman together with their squad of designers ( Hanna Dalrot, Ida Pettersson, Paulin Machado, Sarah Fager, Nike Karlsson, Jon Karlsson, Ola Wihborg, Mikael Axelsson, Marcus Arvonen, Ina Vuorivirta, Gustav Carlberg, Truly truly: Kate together with Joel Booy, Maja Gansyniec, Thomas Sandell, Matali Crasset, Henrick Preutz together with Monika Mulder). Here's what he explained:
"This year's PS collection 2017 is all close comfort together with it's close exploring what comfort is because today comfort is real static, thick together with bulky, how tin nosotros await at defining comfort inwards a dissimilar 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 large starting signal for the collection, to really brand certain nosotros travel amongst democratic design, was to receive got workshops some comfort together with solving life at domicile for living inwards pocket-size spaces together with to really brainstorm those ideas. But earlier the designers could position pen to newspaper nosotros really took them all to factories together with suppliers to empathise materials together with techniques thence so nosotros could really develop inwards the IKEA agency together with that's when we're best on the mill floor, to really empathise cloth together with techniques thence that nosotros tin blueprint products that volition solve people's needs at home, but also products that nosotros tin make."
"One of the products we've been working on, is a quite interesting chair here. We decided to travel amongst a lot of known materials that nosotros tin empathise together with travel with, metal, forest together with textiles but hither nosotros were presented amongst a technique called "3D knitting" together with you lot encounter it a lot on flyknit nighttime trainers, together with it's a agency of knitting a frame for a chair without whatever stitching, real lightweight, real sparse together with if you lot sit down on it, it's real comfy."
"Also when nosotros beak close inwards the living room, non every domicile needs a TV together with a sofa, what could endure a identify for relaxing, cocooning together with beingness together. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rocking chair to pass fourth dimension on your ain or amongst the family. "
"Not everybody is sitting past times the dining tabular array for dinners anymore. If you lot alive inwards a pocket-size infinite you lot swallow perchance inwards forepart of the TV, you lot work. But how could nosotros receive got a folding tabular array that was really smart, at the correct summit that ane could swallow from, travel from, but if you lot alive inwards a pocket-size space, what exercise you lot exercise amongst it when you lot don't necessitate it. This tabular array folds upwardly inwards a really prissy agency together with thence you lot tin merely motion it when it's non inwards use. Also, when living inwards a pocket-size space, you lot powerfulness non ever receive got an extra chair, but why non accept the camping ground manufacture amongst their folding chairs amongst peachy solutions together with brand a peachy indoor folding chair that you lot desire to receive got inwards your home. Designed past times Jon Karlsson, there's also a loveseat selection equally well. And that's where I shout out upwardly we're really skilful at IKEA when we're on the mill flooring but looking at known techniques, thence taking the machinery that plant together with thence redesigning it."
"Looking at the fashion industry, it's real pop today to encounter quilting, it's a really prissy expression, it looks fun, immature together with funky, kinda pop. But thence you lot could cozy upwardly together with throw it over a bed or a sofa, but having a prissy soft cloth on the within that tin evoke the senses, you lot tin rest cozy with."
Also when nosotros beak close comfort that it's non thence skilful to sit down inwards the sofa all afternoon, that it's skilful to motion around, hither we're looking into a form of domicile furnishing form of yoga mat that you lot could lay on the floor, brand the floors comfy, you lot tin sit down together with lay on, to encourage that motion of jumping some together with play, together with having fun at home.
"Another production that is also fun, is looking into life at domicile together with how people alive inwards other countries. In Republic of Republic of India it's real pop to receive got a production that's called a divan, a sleeping/sitting solution, thence what our interpretation of a divan would endure that you lot could slumber on it, sit down on it, together with thence you lot could also accept the pads off of it together with position them on the flooring to sit down on, scroll them upwardly together with lean upwardly against the wall, thence to really challenge novel ways to living inwards the fluid domicile amongst dissimilar production types.
"One of the biggest challenges when nosotros beak close the upholstery manufacture is it's real large foam together with how everybody's sofa looks the same together with the younger generation desire to receive got their personalized products together with how tin nosotros exercise something inwards a dissimilar agency together with how Australian designers, Kate together with Joel Booy receive got come upwardly up amongst something quite radical agency that you lot tin brand your ain sofa," says Futcher.
As Kate together with Joel explain, "Yeah what nosotros really broke down, equally James said was what is the comfort business office of the sofa? These are merely cushions, which when you lot sit down on them are really soft together with comfortable. We were playing amongst materials together with nosotros were similar how tin nosotros interruption this downwards together with when nosotros folded it (like a butterfly) together nosotros got this prissy shape together with nosotros were like, okay, let's larn far similar a giant cushion bed almost. They merely strap on amongst bungee chords to the frame, it's super minimal together with past times beingness thence tight similar this it really creates this book that's really peachy for comfort. And there's thence much in that place to larn far your ain together with it'll endure interesting to encounter what people volition exercise amongst it. The concluding trial of how the pillows volition endure supplied, is non all worked out yet, but the thought is that perchance people tin purpose some of their ain pillows, purpose some of the ones that are available, together with create their ain design."
The chairs intended for indoor use, are divide inwards one-half thence that, you lot tin receive got ane or you lot tin bring together 2 together to brand a consummate sofa. "
"And the other affair nosotros designed, says Joel Booy is this rug. We were looking at nature together with how grass flows some a colina together with these kinds of things, to hand this feeling of comfort visually. The softness of it together with it's a flake organic, together with plant good amongst the metallic of our sofa. "
The IKEA PS 2017 collection volition receive got 35 products which redefine comfort to larn far to a greater extent than personal, together with volition launch inwards August of 2016.
"This year's PS collection 2017 is all close comfort together with it's close exploring what comfort is because today comfort is real static, thick together with bulky, how tin nosotros await at defining comfort inwards a dissimilar 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 large starting signal for the collection, to really brand certain nosotros travel amongst democratic design, was to receive got workshops some comfort together with solving life at domicile for living inwards pocket-size spaces together with to really brainstorm those ideas. But earlier the designers could position pen to newspaper nosotros really took them all to factories together with suppliers to empathise materials together with techniques thence so nosotros could really develop inwards the IKEA agency together with that's when we're best on the mill floor, to really empathise cloth together with techniques thence that nosotros tin blueprint products that volition solve people's needs at home, but also products that nosotros tin make."
"One of the products we've been working on, is a quite interesting chair here. We decided to travel amongst a lot of known materials that nosotros tin empathise together with travel with, metal, forest together with textiles but hither nosotros were presented amongst a technique called "3D knitting" together with you lot encounter it a lot on flyknit nighttime trainers, together with it's a agency of knitting a frame for a chair without whatever stitching, real lightweight, real sparse together with if you lot sit down on it, it's real comfy."
"Also when nosotros beak close inwards the living room, non every domicile needs a TV together with a sofa, what could endure a identify for relaxing, cocooning together with beingness together. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rocking chair to pass fourth dimension on your ain or amongst the family. "
"Not everybody is sitting past times the dining tabular array for dinners anymore. If you lot alive inwards a pocket-size infinite you lot swallow perchance inwards forepart of the TV, you lot work. But how could nosotros receive got a folding tabular array that was really smart, at the correct summit that ane could swallow from, travel from, but if you lot alive inwards a pocket-size space, what exercise you lot exercise amongst it when you lot don't necessitate it. This tabular array folds upwardly inwards a really prissy agency together with thence you lot tin merely motion it when it's non inwards use. Also, when living inwards a pocket-size space, you lot powerfulness non ever receive got an extra chair, but why non accept the camping ground manufacture amongst their folding chairs amongst peachy solutions together with brand a peachy indoor folding chair that you lot desire to receive got inwards your home. Designed past times Jon Karlsson, there's also a loveseat selection equally well. And that's where I shout out upwardly we're really skilful at IKEA when we're on the mill flooring but looking at known techniques, thence taking the machinery that plant together with thence redesigning it."
"Looking at the fashion industry, it's real pop today to encounter quilting, it's a really prissy expression, it looks fun, immature together with funky, kinda pop. But thence you lot could cozy upwardly together with throw it over a bed or a sofa, but having a prissy soft cloth on the within that tin evoke the senses, you lot tin rest cozy with."
Also when nosotros beak close comfort that it's non thence skilful to sit down inwards the sofa all afternoon, that it's skilful to motion around, hither we're looking into a form of domicile furnishing form of yoga mat that you lot could lay on the floor, brand the floors comfy, you lot tin sit down together with lay on, to encourage that motion of jumping some together with play, together with having fun at home.
"Another production that is also fun, is looking into life at domicile together with how people alive inwards other countries. In Republic of Republic of India it's real pop to receive got a production that's called a divan, a sleeping/sitting solution, thence what our interpretation of a divan would endure that you lot could slumber on it, sit down on it, together with thence you lot could also accept the pads off of it together with position them on the flooring to sit down on, scroll them upwardly together with lean upwardly against the wall, thence to really challenge novel ways to living inwards the fluid domicile amongst dissimilar production types.
"One of the biggest challenges when nosotros beak close the upholstery manufacture is it's real large foam together with how everybody's sofa looks the same together with the younger generation desire to receive got their personalized products together with how tin nosotros exercise something inwards a dissimilar agency together with how Australian designers, Kate together with Joel Booy receive got come upwardly up amongst something quite radical agency that you lot tin brand your ain sofa," says Futcher.
As Kate together with Joel explain, "Yeah what nosotros really broke down, equally James said was what is the comfort business office of the sofa? These are merely cushions, which when you lot sit down on them are really soft together with comfortable. We were playing amongst materials together with nosotros were similar how tin nosotros interruption this downwards together with when nosotros folded it (like a butterfly) together nosotros got this prissy shape together with nosotros were like, okay, let's larn far similar a giant cushion bed almost. They merely strap on amongst bungee chords to the frame, it's super minimal together with past times beingness thence tight similar this it really creates this book that's really peachy for comfort. And there's thence much in that place to larn far your ain together with it'll endure interesting to encounter what people volition exercise amongst it. The concluding trial of how the pillows volition endure supplied, is non all worked out yet, but the thought is that perchance people tin purpose some of their ain pillows, purpose some of the ones that are available, together with create their ain design."
The chairs intended for indoor use, are divide inwards one-half thence that, you lot tin receive got ane or you lot tin bring together 2 together to brand a consummate sofa. "
"And the other affair nosotros designed, says Joel Booy is this rug. We were looking at nature together with how grass flows some a colina together with these kinds of things, to hand this feeling of comfort visually. The softness of it together with it's a flake organic, together with plant good amongst the metallic of our sofa. "
The IKEA PS 2017 collection volition receive got 35 products which redefine comfort to larn far to a greater extent than personal, together with volition launch inwards August of 2016.