Kvadrat unveils Ronan Bouroullec collection during Milan Design Week 2023

During Salone del Mobile 2023, Kvadrat is showcasing ‘Paravent’,a special installation by Ronan Bouroullec, to celebrate the launch of a textile collection inspired by the designer’s iconic drawings. The collection comprise a series of three upholsteries new graphic expression to the Kvadrat collection.

Tero Outdoor, Sone, and Alle feature patterns that recall the movement and colour nuances of Ronan Bouroullec’s artworks. The colours for the collection explore a scale of hues connected to the designer’s drawings. Ranging from cool, shady notes to brighter and lighter notes, they interact with the textiles’ rich structures to illuminate eye-catching yarn details and intriguing tonalities.

Colour wheel image of Tero Outdoor by Ronan Bouroullec, Copyright Casper SejersenPress image of Sone by Ronan Bouroullec, Copyright Casper Sejersen

By juxtaposing monochrome lines next to one another, Ronan Bouroullec’s original drawings create organic shapes in abstract compositions. The succession of colourful lines created with markers, graphite or ballpoint pens follow the concept of intuitive drawing. His drawings, formed by the elegant repetition of lines, are the result of meditative sub-consciousness and from the background and inspiration for Alle, Sone and Tero Outdoor.

Inspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textiles Alle, Sone and Tero Outdoor, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan Bouroullec

Ronan Bouroullec: “The journey that led us to Sone, Tero Outdoor and Alle started with a simple question. How can we translate the essence of the drawings into textiles?”

Alle

Alle is a soft woollen upholstery featuring an organic line pattern. The textile’s pattern features yarns that stretch from selvedge to selvedge, which flow across and seemingly dissolve into its surface. These tactile, three-dimensional forms capture a sense of the rich strokes that characterise Ronan Bouroullec’s drawings and illuminate a vibrant interplay between matt and lustre.

Inspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Alle, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan Bouroullec

Inspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Alle, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan BouroullecInspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Alle, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan Bouroullec

Bouroullec: “Alle offers an atmospheric translation of the pen strokes and colours that comprise my artworks. Through the prism of rich materiality, it expresses the therapeutic back-and-forth movements I make when drawing.”

The colour palette for Alle comprises a scale of mainly cool, neutral and brick-coloured notes. The contrast in relief between the flat base and the raised ‘brushstrokes’ reveals different sides to these elegant shades.

Sone

Sone is a unicoloured upholstery textile featuring a subtle graphic design with intersecting fields of linear textures. The contrast of the Salone del Mobile 2023 different multidirectional pattern play across Sone’s surface, which gives a pronounced tactility and depth, with the structure of the pattern emerging from changes in the direction of the lines.

In this way, Sone captures the sense of the textural zones and movement that represents Ronan Bouroullec’s artworks. The expression of the textile takes further inspiration from landscapes, as if looking down on fields from a plane flying above.

Inspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Sone, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan Bouroullec

Inspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Sone, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan BouroullecInspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Sone, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan Bouroullec

The colour palette for Sone unites a scale of bright hues with notes of vibrant green and yellow to the softer brick-tones. These are characterised in Ronan Bouroullec’s celebrated drawings and coordinated with the other textiles in the collection.

Tero Outdoor

Tero Outdoor by Ronan Bouroullec is a subtly graphic upholstery for outdoor environments. Tactile jacquard-woven lines crisscross Tero Outdoor’s surface at various angles, creating an abstract, threedimensional pattern. The expression of the textile takes further inspiration from landscapes, as if looking down on fields from a plane flying above.

Bouroullec: “Tero Outdoor embodies a new approach to discreet graphic expression and the world of textiles suitable for outdoor use.”

Tero Outdoor is constructed from post-consumer recycled polyester. It features an environmentally-focused, fluorocarbon-free construction. It provides resistance against chlorine, seawater and artificial weathering. In addition to its technical features, it also stands out for a soft touch compared to other outdoor fabrics.

Inspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Tero Outdoor, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan BouroullecInspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Tero Outdoor, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan Bouroullec

Inspirational image of Ronan Bouroullec’s textile Tero Outdoor, Copyright Casper Sejersen, Ronan Bouroullec

The colour scale for Tero Outdoor comprises a scale of cool translucennuances, as the textile is woven with three different coloured yarns. These shades combine to subtly illuminate details in the relief of the pattern, adding extra dimensions of depth to the textile.

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Monday 17 April, 10am – 6pm

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About Ronan Bouroullec

Ronan Bouroullec is a globally acclaimed talent and long-term collaborator with Kvadrat. Trained in contemporary art and design, he creates works that span from craftsmanship to mass production via permanent public space installations worldwide. In the early 1990s Ronan Bouroullec started his design activities andhas since then worked with a roster of leading design brands from his studio in Paris. Drawing, a regular activity since childhood, also plays a central part in his life. His designs, some of which he co-creates with his brother Erwan Bouroullec, and intuitive drawings play a role in prestigious international institutions and galleries.