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LOEWE WEAVE, RESTORE, RENEW

LOEWE WEAVE, RESTORE, RENEW

July 7, 2022
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Image: Installation view of LOEWE’s presentation ‘Weave, Restore, Renew’ at Salone del Mobile 2022. Photographer Ilaria Orsini


After a two year pause during the pandemic, LOEWE presents a new Salone del Mobile project in real life. For the sixth instalment at the annual furniture fair, LOEWE developed Weave, Restore, Renew: a poliform project that revolves around the idea of giving new life to things that might have been forgotten or discarded, and turn them into new, unique pieces by repairing and reviving them through craft interventions. Acts of manual labour give new meaning to each object, honouring the object’s history and value and preserving it for the future. Such a way of approaching the artisanal process sits right at the crossroad of respect for the environment and respect for the product. It is the opposite of senseless consumption, and an acknowledgement that things done with love and attention retain a human quality that lasts over time. Looking at traditional crafts both from Spain and abroad, turning ages-old techniques into something unexpected: an expression of the now, with a soul. Weave, Restore, Renew explores leather weaving, the Galician straw-weaving tradition known as Coroza and the Korean technique of paper weaving known as Jiseung.



Image: Installation view of LOEWE’s presentation ‘Weave, Restore, Renew’ at Salone del Mobile 2022. Photographer Ilaria Orsini

Repaired in Spain is the core section of Weave, Restore, Renew. Giving 240 existing baskets from all over the world - each one with its own peculiar shape, function and level of distress - to artisans Idoia Cuesta, Beleìn Martiìnez, Santiago Besteiro, Juan Manuel Marcilla. They then mended and repaired them using leather strings and the result is a series of unique baskets that are a testament to invention, and very playful and surprising for that. Authentic craft, for me, is sustainable: the concept of repair is fundamental in this sense.


Image: Installation view of LOEWE’s presentation ‘Weave, Restore, Renew’ at Salone del Mobile 2022. Photographer Ilaria Orsini

Coroza is an ancient Galician technique which consists of weaving straw, reeds, briar and other natural fibres to create raincoats, hats and baskets. The striking fringed capes were used in the region up until a few years ago and the coroza tradition dates back thousands of years. For the Coroza section they created a series of bags and basket bags that retain the distinctive tiers of fringes of the coroza, which look both practical and visually surprising, almost like sculptures.

Then there is paper. Together with Young Soon Lee, a LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize Finalist in 2019, they created a series of jars using the traditional Korean Jiseung technique, which consists of finely weaving strings of paper to create household objects. Extending the same technique to recycled newspaper, with which we made a series of sturdy totes.

Across this whole project, LOEWE celebrates the regenerative power of handwork delivering a message of evolution and transformation which is progressive and uplifting.

Find out more information about Weave, Restore, Renew HERE.
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Thank you over and over again for sending generous creative inspiration and energy. You make the world a better place.🌻💕

Jozette StubbeNovember 28, 2022

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