New at Milan 2014: byBorre x Piet Hein Eek

14-08-2016

01-04-2014

Press Release
 
Piet Hein Eek’s almost pathological tendency to avoid throwing away materials, but instead to use them as a basis for designs, thereby making them of inestimable value, is shared by Borre Akkersdijk. Through Akkersdijk’s expertise and creativity, he and Eek have together been able to develop a new product. Old silk fabrics for men’s ties form the basic material. 

In the warehouses of Spazio Rossana Orlandi, when Rossana Orlandi took over the tie factory together with staff and stock, huge amounts of silk fabric for ties lay forgotten and neglected. These fabrics were the stimulus for protracted mental gymnastics, with the most successful result being the ‘tie lamp’. To avoid all the bother of selecting fabrics, Piet Hein Eek swapped a unique table and chairs for the entire stock. All the stock was transported from Milan to Eindhoven, ”so as not to moulder away”. But what was to be done with it?

When Borre Akkerdijk was roped in to take a look at the mountains of fabric, he was inspired by his journey to China, where he had also been forced by circumstances to make use of clothing material, and he came up with an application that was as simple as it was brilliant. 

Combining already available materials with production methods and products to come up with a new product in a new context provides the opportunity to create a new material in a simple way. Akkersdijk has batting placed between two rolls of silk and then has it quilted.

In the first tests, it was easy to make a comparison with the padded fabrics of byBorre. The tie silks are carefully chosen for colour, pattern and quilt pattern. Without wasting any silk, the fabric combinations are stitched together, with binding all around the edges, and then a leather label is affixed. The first results of the collaboration were presented during the Salone 2014 at the place where the whole story began: at Rossana Orlandi’s premises. 

From that time also available from byBorre and Piet Hein Eek. 

Voor meer info: mail@byborre.com / info@pietheineek.nl

Salone del Mobile: 8 to 13 April

Spazio Rossana Orlandi

Via Matteo Bandello 14/16

20123 Milano

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