Object of Desire: Mayan-Inspired Woven Seating
Recently I wrote about a chic Brooklyn condo for Remodelista see Industrial Revolution: A New Red Hook Condo In Tune with the Neighborhood’s History
Photography via Luteca, unless otherwise noted.
After a successful Kickstarter campaign txt ure built a workshop and began training indigenous craftspeople to make the pieces
Photograph by Hollister Hovey, from Industrial Revolution: A New Red Hook Condo In Tune with the Neighborhood’s History.
Here’s where I first spotted the chair, in a condo in Red Hook, Brooklyn, staged by Hollister and Porter Hovey, who were inspired to mix in Latin American designs because the space, with its lime plaster walls and arched windows and doorways, had a Spanish feel.
The technique of tule knotting was first revived by txt.ure, a Mexican group devoted to resuscitating age-old craft traditions.
The bench is $1,499; the chair is $1,250; the small stool is $585; and the large stool is $750.
Tule was also heavily used by Native Americans, who wove baskets with it and even made tools and built homes with it.
The woven tule pieces can be used indoors and outdoors under cover.