London Design Festival: London designer Benjamin Hubert has launched a lighting collection made of underwear fabric (+ audio).
Above: listen to Benjamin Hubert talking about his new products, installation at designjunction and approach to industrial design. Hear more audio interviews with designers and curators at the London Design festival here.
Called Tenda, meaning ‘tent’ in Italian, the product brings together fibreglass rods from the kite-making industry, Lycra from the sportswear industry, four-way stretchy mesh from the underwear industry and a construction technique from tent-making.
The rods are held in tension by the textile cover and brass connectors and light is diffused by the inner layers of Lycra.
Talking about his approach to designing new products, Hubert told Dezeen “we call it materials-driven, process-led industrial design and it just means that we start from a construction. We start from a fold, we start from a weave, we start from a stretch and then the application – a light, a chair, a table – comes later.”
Hubert showed the project as part of designjunction in London last week, which took place in the industrial setting of a former postal sorting-office.
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