FABRICS Reflex C0119

Reflex's confident stripes rise above the flat woven base of the fabric, resembling 10cm wide strips of embroidery executed in a slightly irregular thread. This rich, soft wool yarn leaves patches of the base colour visible through the fabric, resulting in a sense of depth and complexity in its colour. The wide, clean-edged stripe is both boldly graphic and strikingly tactile.

In creating the Reflex stripe, designer Raf Simons was inspired by the festive maritime stripe on the upholstery used for Franco Albini's Seggiovia chair in the 1940s, artist Daniel Buren's use of stripes in his architectural interventions and the long heritage of wide stripes in high Moda. Reflex's colour combinations draw on all these sources of inspiration, offering both bold and subtle variations. At the more graphic end of the range, there is a buttercup yellow base with a dotted camel stripe, a burnt orange with a fire engine red and the clean graphic pop of white on black. Subtle tone-on-tone colour combinations include charcoal, graphite, cream and pale grey. Extraneous fibres may appear in lighter colours.

Reflex stripe runs from selvedge to selvedge.

Category : Upholstery Kvadrat / Raf Simons

Composition : 87% Combed Virgin Wool, 8% Viscose, 5% Nylon