Ikea Introduces The 3D-Knitted Chair

While inwards Älmhult, Sweden final year nosotros had the run a jeopardy to sentiment IKEA's PS 2017 collection (in paradigm versions) as well as come upward Feb the collection volition locomote inwards stores.  But they lately showed off the actual production lately 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 well-nigh comfort as well as it's well-nigh exploring what comfort is because today comfort is really static, thick as well as 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 big starting signal for the collection, to genuinely brand certain nosotros operate amongst democratic design, was to convey workshops closed to comfort as well as solving life at domicile for living inwards pocket-size spaces as well as to genuinely brainstorm those ideas. But earlier the designers could seat pen to newspaper nosotros genuinely took them all to factories as well as suppliers to sympathise materials as well as techniques thus so nosotros could genuinely develop inwards the IKEA agency as well as that's when we're best on the mill floor, to genuinely sympathise fabric as well as techniques thus that nosotros tin pattern products that volition solve people's needs at home, simply also products that nosotros tin make."

"One of the products we've been working on, is a quite interesting chair.  We decided to operate amongst a lot of known materials that nosotros tin sympathise as well as operate with, metal, woods as well as textiles simply hither nosotros were presented amongst a technique called "3D knitting" which you lot come across a lot on flyknit (Nike) trainers, as well as it's a agency of knitting a frame for a chair without whatever stitching, really lightweight, really sparse as well as if you lot sit down on it, it's really comfy."

Here's a film of the paradigm nosotros start were introduced to:

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

The 3D-knitted chair comes inwards burgundy as well as greyish as well as volition locomote available Feb 2017. See to a greater extent than from the IKEA PS 2017 collection inwards our shipping service here.

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