Twisted Flower is a woollen upholstery textile that unites the colour mastery of Giulio Ridolfo with the weaving ingenuity of the late Frans Dijkmeijer, inspired by their shared love for botanicals.
Twisted Flower
Drawing on Giulio Ridolfo's extensive colour archive and botanical knowledge, it combines calm yet complex neutrals with energetic, vivid shades derived from specific plants, such as the red of Fritillaria Imperialis, blue of Ceanothus Thyrsiflorus, and yellow of Gossypium.
Together they form a bouquet of textile colours.
Twisted Flower’s weave is based on a construction discovered in Frans Dijkmeijer’s archive and translated from a handwoven sample into an industrial weave.
The twisted yarn mimics the simple gesture of twisting a single flower between the fingers, capturing its dynamic colour energy.
Balancing durability with a soft hand, Twisted Flower is suitable for a wide range of commercial and residential applications. It joins the family of textiles designed by Giulio Ridolfo for Kvadrat, complementing his other textiles such as Remix Flow, Serpentine, and the Steelcut collection.
Frans Dijkmeijer was born in the Netherlands in 1936. He studied at the Academy of Industrial Design in Eindhoven, a school conceived in a similar manner to the Bauhaus, before working at Kendix textiles, becoming Head of Design at Artex in 1966 and then moving to de Ploeg textiles. In 1992 his relationship with Kvadrat was initiated, and he went on to create a large number of upholstery textiles for us. Dijkmeijer is recognized as one of Europe’s leading weavers. In his work, he perceives materials, colours and textures as an organic whole. The harmony of the elements is fundamental to his designs.
Giulio Ridolfo uses colour to contextualise design and storytelling; his approach is rooted in observation, materiality, and imagination. To create his signature ‘in-between’ mercurial hues, he assumes many different roles, from self-taught botanist capturing the mutable colours of nature to a rogue anthropologist. At Kvadrat, Giulio Ridolfo brings a warm, southern sensibility to the cool clarity of Nordic design.
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