DVELAS COLLECTION Upcycled sail cloth for contemporary furniture by ENRIQUE KAHLE OLASO |
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| DESIGN NAME: DVELAS COLLECTION PRIMARY FUNCTION: Upcycled sail cloth for contemporary furniture INSPIRATION: All our designs are inspired by observing sailing techniques, nautical construction and the poetry of the sea itself, a conceptual component being essential in all of them, to merge all of this together. UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: DVELAS promotes the recovery of used sails to transform them into contemporary designs, emerging as a creative reaction to harness the vast amount of material disposed from sailing ships, taking their aesthetics, materials, techniques and forms as a new way and inspiration for design. DVELAS has two types of productions: Limited Editions: series originating from a specific sail, identified with a tag with data about the source of the sail and the port of origin, the boat, the type of sail and the original manufacturer. Unique Editions: Exclusive pieces originating from a specific area of a sail with special plastic qualities due to their patina, marks or numbers. These pieces are also tagged with the data about the source of the sail. OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: VAURIEN: Simply tying two ends, it becomes a lounger that protects us from the wind and provide shade. It can be rolled up for storage. B&S: permits its dual use, as a lounger or as an easy chair. TRIMMER: The fabric rest on a three supports structure of iron tube. And a sailing rope framework is used to provide tensioning strength to the system adapting perfectly to the body. DRIZA: adapts to different heights. The system can be moved with several pulleys being able to raise and lower. GÉNOIS can be hung for storage. PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in February 2009 in Pamplona and exhibited in BEST-ED (http://en.best-ed.org/) in Matadero Contemporary Art Center, Madrid. It starts the activity in August 2010. In September 2011 took part in NUDE (http://www.nudegeneration.com/about-nude) of Feria Hábitat Valencia, Spain. In February 2012 participated on GREEN DESIGN in Stockholm Furniture Fair and this April in Superstudio Più's Temporary Museum for New Design (DISCOVERING). On 20th May 2012 take parti in the Exhibition in the Sculpture Park at Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig. |
PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: VAURIEN: Recovered sail, fibre glass batten frame and inner foam filling. B&S: Comprised of a circular section structure of aluminium or wood, and sail fabric. Its design, permits its dual use, as a lounger or as an easy chair. TRIMMER: Built by the union of three of halyard cuffs, resting on a three supports structure of iron tube. A sailing rope framework is used to provide tensioning strength to the system. GÉNOIS: The back acquires rigidity, adapting perfectly to the body. Made with waterproofed sail, lacing ropes and metal eyelet holes. SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: GARRUCHO & DRIZA: cardboard tube 110x8 cm Weight: 2 Kg GÉNOIS: Cardboard box 80x60x68 cm Weight: 6 Kg VAURIEN, GÉNOIS CHESLÓN, B&S: Cardboard box 120x80x57 cm Weight: 10 Kg TRIMMER: Cardboard box 120x100x85 cm Weight: 15 Kg TAGS: conceptual, dual, tension, upcycle, exclusive, unique, edition, limited, rigging RESEARCH ABSTRACT: Our designs seek to reuse the old sails by analyzing inherent concepts in sailing skills, such as versatility, balance or tension. Each original idea is started with simple concepts which are interpreted by the sailmaker and cleared by the designer to achieve conceptual designs with a technical language used by the professional sailmakers and giving a new life to the material, reaffirming its dignity as sturdy material with a past. CHALLENGE: The challenge is the creation of high quality contemporary furniture with design concepts and manufacturing techniques, used in the sailmaker industry. The seek is to get an excellent reuse of the material by searching fine eco desing and the pursuit of a new language for furniture. ADDED DATE: 2011-11-20 14:15:39 TEAM MEMBERS (5) : DVELAS:, Enrique Kahle, Architect, Arraitz Koch, Designer, Esperanza Kahle, Architect and Borja Fuentes, Architect + Sailmaker IMAGE CREDITS: ENRIQUE KAHLE OLASO, 2011. |
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NAME: DVELAS PROFILE: DVELAS is an initiative involving the recovery of used sails for their transformation, applied to the design and production of contemporary furniture and projects. DVELAS is fuelled by a passion for the sea and navigation, and the designs are inspired by the rigging techniques of sailing boats. DVELAS design and produce furniture, re-using the sails and making them with the manufacturing techniques used by professional sail makers. The designs are based on the qualities of the sails and on their rigging techniques. They always have a conceptual component that evokes their origin, where tension, equilibrium, versatility or the work of the materials are important terms. DVELAS has two types of productions: Limited Editions: series originating from a specifi c sail, identifi ed with a tag with data about the source of the sail and the port of origin, the boat, the type of sail and the original manufacturer. Unique Editions: Exclusive pieces originating from a specifi c area of a sail with special plastic qualities due to their patina, marks or numbers. These pieces are also tagged with the data about the source of the sail. DVELAS is also works in the design and execution of projects, recovering sails to qualify spaces, creating shade, scenographies and ephemeral installations, etc. DVELAS has been created as a completely innovative initiative, with a conceptual, refl exive design that evokes the sea and sailing. An intrinsically ecological activity that recovers and re-uses sails to produce exclusive pieces of furniture. Team: ENRIQUE KAHLE, Architect (Designer of the concept and actual Collection) ARRAITZ KOCH, Graphic Designer ESPERANZA KAHLE, Architect BORJA FUENTES, Architect and Sailmaker www.dvelas.com |
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Dvelas Collection Upcycled Sail Cloth For Contemporary Furniture by Enrique Kahle Olaso is Winner in Textile, Fabric, Textures, Patterns and Cloth Design Category, 2011 - 2012.· Press Members: Login or Register to request an exclusive interview with ENRIQUE KAHLE OLASO. · Click here to register inorder to view the profile and other works by ENRIQUE KAHLE OLASO. |
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