Contemporary armchair COCO

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"With the modular Coco Seating collection, ames presents the first collaboration with Spanish creative studio MUT Design. The design of the outdoor series, which includes a lounge chair, a foot stool and a side table, draws inspiration from origami fidget toys popular in Latin culture called comecocos. While the modul’s outline is simple and geometric, the colourful fabric covers introduce a lively contrast to the design. The neat seams of the textiles evoke the fine edges of the paper objects. In Colombia, this type of hand-woven fabric is traditionally used for making hammocks. Ames invited MUT Design to use it to create the brand’s first upholstered seating collection. ‘We loved the vibrancy of these textiles’, says MUT Design. ‘They are so beautifully crafted. By just swapping one thread, the patterns in the weft come alive. We chose bright, colourful threads to generate depth and perspective so that the pattern and colour seem to change from every angle.’ Thanks to the modular concept, Coco can bring colour and comfort to balconies just as well as to large garden terraces. Coco is available in three bright fabrics with very unique colourways as each combines five different threads ranging from light to intense hues creating pastels with a beaming quality." Using acrylic yarns made from recycled plastic, Colombian artisans in Cundinamarca, the region surrounding the capital Bogota, create the fabrics using dyed acrylic yarns on horizontal looms. It takes eight days to set up the loom, likewise the manual weaving of the fabric.