Danish designer Bonnie Hvillum's Natural Material Studio has collaborated with multidisciplinary studio Frama on a collection of biodegradable materials made from algae, clay and foam.
The collection comprises three different fabrics that were turned into clothes, curtains and drapes, and showcased at Frama's Copenhagen showroom as part of last year's 3 Days of Design festival.
Above: Natural Material Studio unveiled new materials with Frama. Top image: the exhibition showed biodegradable clothes. Photo is by Natural Material Studio
The collaboration was the result of Natural Material Studio's long-running research into different types of natural materials.
"Some of the used materials were already in development when Frama's creative director Niels Strøyer Christophersen and I started having our meetings and talks about materials and our relations with them," Hvillum told Dezeen. Door hangings were made from B-Foam. Photo is by Natural Material Studio
The fabrics that were shown at Frama's Copenhagen showroom were Alger, a seaweed fabric made from seaweed extract and softener, which is dyed with spirulina algae; and Terracotta, a clay-pigmented biofabric formed using a protein-based binder extracted from collagen and a natural softener.
Also on display were fabrics made from B-Foam, a foam material made from charcoal that Natural Material Studio has been developing since 2019. This was showcased at an earlier 3 Days of Design event, as part of design show Ukurant...