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Doshi Levien: Pilotis

For the London Design Festival, Doshi Levien created an installation at the Kvadrat showroom, celebrating their new collection of textured, smooth and perforated curtains.

Doshi Levien have created four distinct curtain textiles for Kvadrat. Lake and Utopia are densely woven with a subtle, diagonal pattern while Rocket and Fiction are two knitted curtains with playful, contemporary looks.

Initially inspired from hard and textured architectural surfaces like concrete, glass and weathered metal, the studio created a series of new surface textures and cast them in plaster.

Doshi Levien, Pilotis, sketch — Doshi Levien, *Pilotis*, sketch

Doshi Levien: “We wanted to create technical fabrics but with soft architectural colours. We researched Le Corbusier’s tapestries and paintings in the city of Chandigarh and were inspired by the brightly coloured buildings that faded in the sun over time, making the colours dusty”.