Brooklyn-based studio Cre?me employed traditional Chinese dying techniques to create these indigo-coloured wooden chairs for Stellar Works.
The Special Edition Indigo Exchange chairs are coloured using dye from Guizhou village in southern China
To celebrate the launch of its Exchange Collection for Chinese brand Stellar Works at this year's ICFF, Cre?me created limited-edition versions of the range's chair in distinctive blue hues.
Traditional techniques were employed to tint wood in three different shades of blue. There is also a half-coloured version
The Special Edition Indigo Exchange includes three chairs dyed in different shades of blue. The chairs feature copper supports that are intended to offset the blue-hued wood.
To create the blue colouring, the designers worked with producers of natural indigo dye in the Guizhou village in southern China. The dye was organically grown and harvested by local villagers before being applied with traditional hand-dyeing techniques. The chairs also feature copper details that are used to offset the blue hues
Among these was batik, a technique commonly used to dye cloth by applying wax to protect some areas from colour. Its effects can be observed in a fourth version of the chair that is only half dyed.
"The development of the special-edition indigo chair has been a very rewarding process as it captures the essence of Chinese craft heritage and handmade production processes within a contemporary piece of furniture,&...