Nika Zupanc's Knitty Chair for Moooi "performs with scale"

Within the newest Design Goals video produced by Dezeen for Moooi, Slovenian designer Nika Zupanc describes how her Knitty Chair takes inspiration from big mooring ropes for ships.

The Knitty Chair is an armchair with a chunky basket-weave design resembling a knotted rope.

The chair is upholstered in a knitted cloth out there in 15 colors that contains a quilted diamond sample.

“It’s actually cozy, beneficiant and naturally hopefully additionally very iconic,” mentioned Zupanc in an unique video interview with Dezeen.

“It was impressed by these very huge ropes with which very huge ships are tied to the ports,” she continued.

“It’s making an attempt to vary the attitude on issues, taking part in with the size that we’re used to see in our on a regular basis lives.”

In accordance with Zupanc, the commercial settings the place such ropes are discovered stoke her creativeness.

“I actually like forgotten components of any metropolis, suburban industrial zones which can be normally a little bit bit melancholic,” she defined. “I really like this sort of disappointment that you will discover in them, and they’re filled with particulars.”

Zupanc’s first design for Moooi was the pink Lolita desk lamp.

“After we launched it, it was in a pink color, which in 2008 was type of a daring gesture,” she mentioned.

The Lolita lamp was adopted by the Golden Chair, a faculty chair with a retro design upholstered in gold artificial leather-based.

“It was actually important for me as an rising designer,” said Zupanc.

The Slovenian designer advised Dezeen how Moooi champions rising designers and permits them to understand merchandise with out compromising their imaginative and prescient.

“Moooi was one of many few corporations that had the braveness to ask younger, unknown designers to indicate their work,” she mentioned.

“Huge thanks goes to the product improvement of Moooi. They’re at all times prepared to go a little bit bit additional to search out the options and actually attempt to do one thing nice”

This video was filmed as a part of an ongoing collaboration between Dezeen and Moooi known as Design Goals, which explores how profitable designers turned their goals into actuality.

Different movies within the collection embody designer Andrés Reisinger explaining how his viral Hortensia chair design was delivered to life and Rick Tegelaar explaining how the Meshmatics Chandelier he developed at college grew to become considered one of Moooi’s merchandise.

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This video was produced by Dezeen for Moooi as a part of a partnership. Discover out extra about Dezeen’s partnership content material right here.