We Design for a Resilient Future

Designtex’s Loop to Loop platform is created by upcycling our own textile waste. A decade ago, we began an ongoing collaboration with three supply chain partners to collect our textile cutting waste from furniture manufacturing and transform it into new yarn. The new yarn using this waste is woven into an array of upholstery and multiuse fabrics.

Closing the loop on our fabric waste not only yielded the first upholstery pattern Loop to Loop (included in the collection of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design museum), but also a group of textiles that are consciously designed with future recycling in mind. By avoiding finishes, backings, and harmful ingredients, these textiles can easily enter a circular system for another life, when their time comes.

Our approach to shapes, colors, textures and materials is deeply rooted in the principles of biophilia, which is the innate human attraction to the natural world. Research has shown that incorporating biophilic design into the built environment can have significant positive psychological and physiological responses, including stress reduction and improvements to mental wellbeing. Referencing the complex geometries and chromatics of nature, our designs provide spaces with elements that offer gentle support to our visual and haptic senses.

With a goal of improving wellness for people seated indoors, we developed a proprietary upholstery backing to deliver the health benefits of CELLIANT. Our CELLIANT textiles are clinically proven to harness and recycle a person’s body heat into infrared energy. Physical contact with the safe, naturally occurring thermo-reactive minerals in the upholstery increases local blood circulation and tissue oxygenation to, quite literally, boost energy and wellbeing. Simply sit back and relax.