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Knitting needles as design tool. Furniture goes grandma.

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Knitting needles as design tool. Furniture goes grandma.

Oct 3, 2011 | lifestyle |
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left: claire-anne o’brien’s sweater stools

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the knitwear-meets-furniture trend?

left: biscuit scout

I know yarnbombing is on the rise, but when did designers so enthusiastically embrace grandma’s knitting needles? With sweater weather just around the corner I could definitely see myself cozying up to one of Claire-Anne O’Brien’s bright, oh-so-touchable sweater stools in big, exaggerated knits. Biscuit Scout went even further, knitting a slipcover for an entire armchair (my cat would bow down and worship me if I got him one of these).

left” rami tareef

Young designer Rami Tareef takes a beautiful, Bauhaus-inspired approach with the geometric patterns he creates by wrapping and weaving yarn around steel frames, a traditional weaving technique he learned from a wicker craftsman in Jerusalem. The look has roots in the 16th-century , when knit nuts dressed their rooms in flame stitched wall hangings, mounted like wallpaper, a trend that was exacerbated in the 1970s and fashion house Missoni still banks on for everything from clothing to bedding (did you see their line for Target?). 

As summer bids us all adieu and the temperatures continue to drop, I might just warm up fireside (aka, playing my fireplace DVD on repeat) with a pair of needles and get my knit on!


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Perrin Drumm is nothing if not a road trip enthusiast. After moving from her hometown of LA to NY and to LA again, she hiked through half a dozen National Parks, snow-shoed a sizable portion of the Adirondacks, and resisted the overwhelming charm of the South to get back to Brooklyn, where she struggles to learn the trumpet, aspires to be a better Scrabble player, and lives and writes, and remains, as of yet, catless.

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