New York Design Week 2006 part 1








Hella Jongerius
Layers: Monumental Assemblages

20 May to 16 July 2006

Moss Gallery, New York

The exhibition focuses on a new, extraordinary and complicated textile, called "Layers", which Ms. Jongerius has been developing over the past two years with the noted American textile firm, Maharam. Incorporating many layers of various felts and woolens, laser-cut and then top-stitched together in a remarkable quilt-like fashion, these textiles, including a large number of one-off prototypes presented in numerous variations, will be applied to various furniture pieces created by Ms. Jongerius as prototype 'furniture sketches', and will include special hand embroidery. Exploring further this idea of layering materials, Jongerius is creating a number of unique studio ceramic pieces, which will extend her textile concept into another medium.

  mossonline.com