Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola has updated her Maia collection of outdoor furniture for Kettal by replacing the seat with nautical rope and the legs with teak wood.

Patricia Urquiola‘s Maia Rope collection includes four armchairs, two footstools, a two-seater sofa, an egg-shaped swing chair, a bar stool and a table.

All of the pieces created for Spanish brand Kettal feature chunky teak legs and an angular aluminium frame containing the hand-knotted rope mesh.

“The new Kettal Maia Rope collection adds a light design and natural elegance,” said a statement from Kettal. “It is hand-braided with nautical rope and the legs are teak, a combination that transmits energy and warmth.”

The woven rope replaces the criss-crossing synthetic fibre of Urquiola’s original Maia designs released in 2005, which also had aluminium legs.

“The launch of Kettal’s Maia collection was a milestone in the company’s history. Its runaway success garnered the company international recognition and prestige,” said a spokesperson for the brand.

The signature pattern that the designer creates with the knotted yarn can only be achieved by hand braiding.

The brand believes that the updated collection has an “indoor design aesthetic” due to the more natural finish, whilst remaining suitable for outdoor use. The new club armchair also has slightly different proportions to its previous version.

Urquiola’s previous collaborations with Kettal include the Mesh furniture range, which is built from expanded aluminium mesh elements. She has also designed the Vieques collection of carpets made with a three-dimensional Nido d’Ape fabric created especially for Kettal.

In the past Urquiola has created rugs and seat covers with oversized stitching for Spanish brand Gan, a modular sofa system covered in jersey material for Italian brand Moroso, and a retail space for kitchen appliance brand Scholtès.

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Following our visit to the inaugural Northmodern design show in Copenhagen, we’ve gathered our pick of the best products from Danish designers and brands and added them to a new Pinterest board.

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Cologne 2015: Dutch designer Ineke Hans has incorporated slender drawers beneath the surface of this table to store items such as cutlery, letters or tablet devices (+ slideshow).

The Drawer Table’s legs and thin top are made from solid wood. The drawers that slide out from beneath the table’s surface are made from a felt-like composite produced from recycled plastic bottles.

Ineke Hans designed the furniture piece so it can be used as both a dining table and a desk.

“Tables have to be multi-taskers nowadays and serve as working, dining and socialising spots,” said Hans, who has launched the product with Dutch furniture brand Arco.

“The old kitchen drawer-table is in fact a very practical table to store things quickly when activities change, but not very elegant when materials for drawers and tabletop add up and compromise leg-space,” she told Dezeen.

The table is available in various lengths, dictated by the width of the drawers that each equate to one person’s seating space.

“Using recycled PET [polyethylene terephthalate] makes the drawers slide well and simply – and by moulding it, you can keep the wall thickness thin, creating more space for your knees and legs,” said Hans.

“People are amazed by the thin table top, and than flabbergasted when the rim also proves to hide spacious drawers.”

PET also has acoustic qualities, which the designer cites as a benefit when the piece is used in office environments.

The Drawer Table was launched at the imm Cologne trade event earlier this week, where Inga Sempé showed seats clamped into shape with metal frames and Neri&Hu installed its vision for the home of the future.

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Voici la série « Chronophoto » réalisée par le photographe Jean-Yves Lemoigne pour le magazine BKRW. Ces clichés rendent hommage au tennis à travers la réminiscence des mouvements captée sans aucune post-production et permettent de rendre compte de toute la majestuosité de ce noble sport.

Music: British director Ruffmercy drew influence from the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for this fast-paced animated video for a track by rappers Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs and A$AP Ferg.

The video for Old English features colourful animations of each rapper performing the song over a changing backdrop of various patterns, with drawings and words illustrating the song’s lyrical content at a dizzying pace.

“I would usually avoid literal interpretations of song lyrics within a video, but for this one it felt right,” Ruffmercy told Dezeen. “I couldn’t see any other way of the video working than honouring the lyrics and throwing some light onto what some of the slang means so that people could appreciate better what they are talking about.”

“I like the speed of it,” he added. “I like the fact that you may miss something and have to rewind to see things you didn’t see first time around.”

Working by himself, Ruffmercy took approximately a month to make the film.

The director created close-up, wide angle, and profile drawings of each rapper. After turning these into 10-second animations, he exported the footage to editing software and set about using them as a base from which to add, edit and sync new drawings and patterns.

The influence of famed New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is evident throughout the video. A small, crudely drawn crown – a visual motif used by both Basquiat and Ruffmercy – appears at various points, and the drawings of Young Thug, Freddie Gibbs, and A$AP Ferg also bear a similarity to the artist’s work.

Basquiat was an integral part of the New York art scene from the late 1970s until his death in 1988 at the age of 27. Although most famed for his paintings, his unique output also spread across graffiti and music.

“There’s no denying that there’s a Basquiat influence going on here,” the director explained. “Some people will hate that and some people will love it.”

Ruffmercy has previously directed promos for Lily Allen, Run the Jewels and Disclosure. He said he was approached to make an animation because “it was proving difficult to get all the artists in one place to shoot a live-action video.”

Old English will appear on a forthcoming compilation by new record label Mass Appeal, titled Mass Appeal vol. 1.

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