DESIGN
Shading with Added Benefits
With its High Performance Textiles, Kvadrat is introducing a new product category: Metallised roller blind textiles that insulate and cool, provide shade and are see-through.
Sport is an upholstery textile by Patricia Urquiola with a vibrant, high-tech contemporary expression. It is a polyester upholstery textile made from 100% ocean-bound plastic waste. Unlike conventional polyester textiles, which are traditionally flat, Sport has a sophisticated binding that adds tactile multidimensionality to its structure. Tiny graphic floral forms play across its surface, infusing the upholstery with a characterful, intricate expression. Sport is made exclusively from polyester sourced from ocean-bound plastic waste. The post-consumer plastic used to manufacture the material is collected no further than 10 km away from coastlines and on remote islands in Thailand, where better waste management infrastructure is needed.
This profile means Sport differs from other ocean plastic polyester textiles in its sourcing approach. These often incorporate plastic recovered much further from the coastlines and in the sea – up to 50 km away – meaning the plastic has already started to disintegrate in the sea. What is left is very porous. Hence, other ocean plastic textiles typically must integrate either virgin polyester or polyester from other post-consumer plastic sources.
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