For Haynes, who actually worked as an architect before becoming an artist, using quilts to create built environments is a full-circle moment. “Quilts have always been about comfort, the tradition of handmade craft, and the sustainable use of recycled material,” he says. That said, he still makes collectible quilts to hang on walls. And he’s not above making bedcoverings either. “I’d love a hotel to commission me to do all the quilts!” –Catherine Hong
New Digs
Textile Tastemaker Tekla Takes AD Inside Its New Copenhagen HQ
Tekla, the Danish textile brand that made its name with perfect PJs and crisp, striped bedsheets (Harry Styles wore their hooded brown robe for his Adore You music video), has moved into a new Copenhagen headquarters that is just as cool as you might imagine. Situated in the post-industrial, waterside Nordhavn neighborhood, the airy space was designed with their longtime collaborators Mentze Ottenstein, and, as founder and creative director Charlie Hedin explains, it “reflects many of the values we care about: functionality, openness, and a quality way of living with proximity to nature.” Bathed in natural light that pours in from the ceiling, the open space, accented with a swooping chalk white spiral staircase, is filled with design trophies by the likes of Le Corbusier and Alvar and Aino Aalto. For inspiration, they looked to touchstone minimalist interiors like Donald Judd’s spaces in Manhattan and Marfa, Texas and Dia Beacon, the art center in upstate New York. “They exemplify a balance of emotion with restraint and are places where every detail serves a purpose.”—Hannah Martin
Revivals
A Sheila Hicks Fabric Returns After 30 Years Out of Production
To fully appreciate Altiplano, the wool-and-nylon weave recently released by Knoll Textiles, you need to take it apart. So says Sheila Hicks, the acclaimed fiber artist responsible for its design. To do so is to put yourself in Hicks’s shoes in the 1950s, when the now-nonagenarian was exploring the textile traditions of the Andes for her undergraduate thesis at Yale. “I happened to stumble across [the traditional fabric] when I was walking with my backpack in the highlands of Peru,” says Hicks, who just opened a show of new work at SFMOMA in August. “I was fascinated not only by how it looked, but how it was being made.”
In fact, Altiplano is the second incarnation of Hicks’s interpretation of the mid-scale check, first released in 1966 as “Inca”—a name that reflected the era’s casual conflation of Peruvian cultures. The fabric, which went out of production in 1991, has now been rechristened and modernized as one of three Knoll archival reissues introduced this fall. Produced with heathered yarns and woven in a manner that makes warp and weft nearly indistinguishable, the fabric’s elegant simplicity is exactly what makes it so special. “These weavers of the Altiplano—they’re the ones who deserve credit for this intelligence,” says Hicks. “The textile is so simple, it’s unbelievable—and yet so sophisticated that you’d have a hard time doing better.” —Lila Allen
Collaboration
With This New Limewash Paint Collection, You Can Do It Like Douglas
Douglas Friedman, the suavely mustachioed photographer known for his cinematic portraits and interiors, isn’t one to stay in his lane—that much he’ll tell you himself. “I don’t feel ready to limit myself,” he says. And thank goodness for that: Over the past few years, Friedman has increasingly left his mark on products that live off the page, i.e. in real homes: a suite of hide rugs for Kyle Bunting, cactus glassware for Lobmeyr, and even a swimwear line.
