Liberty To Launch New Interiors And Fashion Collection─FuturLiberty─At Milan Design Week 2023
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In anticipation of its 150th anniversary, Liberty will launch a new Interiors and Fashion collection, FuturLiberty, at Milan Design Week 2023.
To mark the milestone, Liberty presents two dedicated exhibitions in the City of Milan, at Museo del Novecento and Palazzo Morando, open now through to September 2023.
Liberty invited esteemed couturier and interior designer, Federico Forquet, to collaborate on the creation of FuturLiberty.
The collection began with Forquet issuing a challenge to the Liberty Designers - to experiment and develop Liberty’s archetypal Arts and Crafts designs. In researching the Liberty archive, home to over 50,000 designs spanning from the 1880s to present day, the team were drawn to the experimental work of famed Liberty designer, Bernard Nevill.
The team were inspired by Nevill’s love for the 20th-century avant-garde art, specifically taking cues from the rebellious Italian Futurists and their English contemporaries the Vorticists.
FuturLiberty reinterprets these archival designs and twentieth-century masterpieces to present a new collection that offers a refreshed intensity and loud optimism through dense brush strokes, delicate lines, and playful collage.
The geometric patterns within the collection are composed of marks made by hand - not only instilling a contemporary take on these typically regular shapes, but also introducing a liveliness and rhythm into the designs.
These artistic impressions were transformed into designs that can repeat with flow and balance across a body, or introduce vibrancy into an interior space.
Whilst taking inspiration from Liberty’s archives, FuturLiberty also draws on Forquet’s personal home in Southern Tuscany.
In collaborating with Forquet, the Liberty Design team visited his home - surrounded by a setting rich with architecture, flora, and fauna, the team were inspired to create a colour story that encapsulates the colourful landscape.
FuturLiberty will launch across 17 interior fabric designs, in various finishes including embroidery and weaves.
The interiors fabrics will be available in a home accessories collection comprising 26 cushion designs and 5 throws.
Meanwhile, 19 fashion fabric designs will debut across a selection of menswear and womenswear designs, and scarves and foulards.
Created in collaboration with textile mills in Italy, Belgium, and India, the artworks are translated into an array of woven, embroidered, and printed fabrics, whilst the finishing touches are hand-painted in the Liberty Design Studio, in the heart of London.
Following Milan Design Week, Liberty will be showcasing the FuturLiberty collections in its iconic department store in London, and online at LibertyLondon.com.
About Liberty
Liberty is a movement dedicated to discovery, animated by arts, culture, design and the pursuit of beauty.
Liberty is famed for its original curation, directional design and celebration of craftsmanship.
In the spirit of our founder, Arthur Lasenby Liberty, we remain unapologetically eccentric and committed to bringing good design to all.
About Liberty Fabrics
Liberty Fabrics has been at the cutting-edge of design and decorative arts since 1875 and now forms an international wholesale business, working with retailers, brands and designers across womenswear, menswear, childrenswear and homewares.
Designed by an in-house team in the heart of London, printing takes place at our mill in northern Italy, which uses both innovative digital technology and age-old techniques.
From signature, obsessively fine-tuned Tana Lawn™ cotton and luxurious silk to lightweight linen, Liberty Fabrics are brilliant canvases for bespoke creations of all kinds.
