Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has collaborated with specialist leather studio Bill Amberg to design hides digitally printed with close-up fractal patterns based on sacred geometry.
Wanders has created two variations of the leather hide based on computer-generated fractals, which are infinitely complex never-ending patterns.
The designs were launched at this year's London Design Festival alongside digitally printed hides by five other creatives, including artist Matthew Day Jackson and jeweller Solange Azagury-Partridge.
Marcel Wanders has worked with Bill Amberg on digitally printed leather hides
The Dutch designer's hides are a "contemporary version of the language" found in the middle eastern principle of sacred or divine geometry. They form part of his five-year Studies for a Mosque (SFM) series which he hopes will culminate in designing a mosque. Sacred geometry is founded on the belief that there are mathematical principles at work in nature, and an inherent significance and order within these forms.
The hides come in two different colourways
"We work a lot in the Middle East, so you don't want to put your typical European stuff everywhere. When things are authentically correct, they look right in a place," explained Wanders.
"[In the Middle East] they don't do drawings of people, they don't do flowers, instead they have what they call the divine geometries," the designer continued.
"This idea is very eternal, and very deep so it kin...