Camira Fabrics

We're textile innovators who design and manufacture contract fabrics for commercial interiors. We're an independent company recognised for product and environmental innovation and the name behind the celebrated Sting fabric made from nettles. Our origins go back to the 1970s, while Camira itself is the result of a management buy-out from the Interface organisation back in 2006. Our textiles impart colour, style, texture and design inspiration and work in beautiful harmony to create statement interior schemes.

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Sand Packaging - Alien and Monkey

 
Sand-made packaging re-establishes the ritual of discovering a gift
and the concept of sustainable packaging.

As an answer to the increase of waste in modern society, we have developed a material using one of earth’s most abundant natural resources, sand, to create packaging for precious gifts.

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Newspaperwood - Mieke Meijer

Newspaperwood turns around the process of making paper, paper becomes wood.

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WALLSTIX

WALLSTIX are “not for your eyes only”, these visual attractive decoration wall panels are performers in noise control and contribute to better acoustics. WALLSTIX are designed to help control disturbing reflections of environmental sounds. They are the ideal solution for both home and public environments like offices, hotels, shops, restaurants, libraries, etc.

WALLSTIX are made of future materials that will take on any shape, as standard tiles they can be combined in different ways, or tailor-made sizes and designs adapt like a chameleon to any architecture. - WALLSTIX are available in any RAL, SIKKENS or NCS color.

- WALLSTIX panels absorb lighter sounds in the higher frequencies.

- WALLSTIX currently works with designers Frederik van Heereveld (FEEK) en Karim Rashid

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Wood-Skin - MammaFotogramma

Wood-skin™ is a composite material, developed and patented by our design firm. This highly flexible surface – a sandwich wood and high performance mesh – was created by a process of excavation with a CNC cutting machine. By dividing the rigid plan of wood into small triangle, the material is freed - able to be shaped as the maker desires. This approach renders a wooden surface malleable, not just for decorative purposes, but also as solid and functional covering system for interiors and design.

This material hold an endless potential to absorb ideas and possibilities that reflect the dynamics of the space they occupy. Recognizing this potential allows to re-conceive and re-build spaces inspired by the malleability of this elegant, durable and strong material.

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Wooden Mesh - Diego Vencato

 

Transforming wood, making possible that not only it could be flexible or soft, but it could also behave exactly like a cloth, was the idea behind the project.

To turn wood into fabric we had to break the continuity of its surface, which we obtained by dividing it into pieces. Wood, organized as in polygons, was then coupled with the fabric, which acts as a support and a binder at the same time.

This is how we created "Wooden Mesh", a compound – realized through a high-tech patented process – which combines a rigid material (parent material) to a flexible support (secondary material). The goal was to move beyond the hand-crafted production to create an industrial product which had a more suitable cost for the market. This was possible thanks to the major contribution of Alberto Martinuzzo, founder of Albeflex and “father” of the soft wood.
Now the two-dimensional surface of a piece of wood has been completely transformed to become as smooth and soft as fabric.

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Geomatrix Surface Design System - Made By Superior

Created for interiors, pop-up retail installations, visual merchandising solutions and retail window display, GEOMATRIX is our sculptural, lightweight yet robust, modular surface design system. It is made entirely from cardboard and can be digitally printed with any image or colour you wish making it a bespoke, flexible, high impact display solution. It can also be laminated with an extensive range of finishes. PLUS as its cardboard, it is 100% recyclable.


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Karim Rashid For ALLOY

The Karim for ALLOY collaboration has resulted in the development of eight innovative metal tile ‘cells’ designed to change the ‘face’ of metal tiles. Available in all of ALLOY’s materials and finishes including stainless steel, copper, brass, titanium and raw steel, each design has been carefully developed, tested and manufactured in ALLOY’s Australian factory. Every tile is punched from an individual sheet of solid, 1.6mm high quality metal to deliver a seamless, hardwearing finish designed to last a lifetime.

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ALLOY - Metal Tile Manufacture

 
Based in Sydney, Australia, ALLOY (ALLOY Design Pty Ltd) works exclusively with high quality metals and alloys, predominantly stainless steel, as well as titanium, copper, brass and raw steel, to design and produce modern objects, finishes and architectural features.

Jonathon Worner, design director at ALLOY, started the company in 1998 out of a fascination with the beautifully utilitarian nature of stainless steel and a love for functional, practical design nurtured by his agricultural background. Creating a small range of no-nonsense yet elegant pieces 'sculptured' from the hi-tech precision machines housed at Pressform, his family's industrial engineering company in Perth Western Australia, Jonathon quickly recognised a gap in the design market for a range of high quality, long-lasting metal home wares with a pared-back design aesthetic...

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Helix - Matter Design

We have a pre-occupation with the trans­la­tion of ancient and often lost meth­ods into con­tem­po­rary cul­ture and prac­tice. Helix is a prod­uct of an ongo­ing research agenda that cen­ters on vol­ume as an area of archi­tec­tural exploration.

Helix is a half-scale spi­ral stair. While this reduced size resolves a num­ber of prac­ti­cal concerns—weight, lia­bil­ity, access—the piece cel­e­brates its imprac­ti­cal­ity. It is both col­umn and stair, yet hangs from the ceil­ing. Its uncer­tainty and changed scale inject play­ful char­ac­ter­is­tics into the sur­round­ing space, while main­tain­ing an alle­giance to the past and known.

A sec­ond pre­oc­cu­pa­tion of ours is what we term “plas­tic rhetoric”. The solid, heavy, and vol­u­met­ric action of cast­ing con­crete trans­forms a liq­uid mat­ter into a solid mass that wants to crack. The stair’s rounded, plas­tic, and cur­va­ceous treads reflect the material’s ear­lier liq­uid state. Its twist­ing accel­er­ates as it wraps around the sup­port col­umn, appear­ing to re-plasticize the fig­ure. The entire construct’s organic and mal­leable appear­ance is coun­ter­in­tu­itive in light of the zero-tolerance sys­tem of nest­ing and key­ing from unit to unit.

Spi­rals are ubiq­ui­tous across cul­tures and times. Helix is our spiral.

The stair is pro­duced with pre­cast unre­in­forced con­crete. These treads are unre­in­forced to test some claims as the team move closer and closer to stone as a test­ing mate­r­ial. Unre­in­forced con­crete has lit­tle to no ten­sile capac­ity mak­ing this project a struc­tural pro­to­type in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Matthew John­son of Simp­son Gumpertz & Heger. Each tread is cast in a fully encap­su­lated cus­tom mold. These molds are rub­ber with a solid wood mother-mold to clamp the assem­bly together. The molds are vibrated rig­or­ously dur­ing the pour­ing process and then imme­di­ately steamed for twelve hours to cure...

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Texlon ETFE Foils - Vector Foiltec

The Texlon® cladding system offers designers unparalleled opportunities in the development of the climatic envelope.

Texlon® consists of pneumatic cushions restrained in aluminium extrusions and supported by a lightweight structure. The cushions are inflated with low pressure air to provide insulation and resist wind loads.

The cushions are manufactured from between two and five layers of the modified copolymer Ethylene Tetra Fluoro Ethylene (ETFE). Originally developed for the space industry, the material is unique in that it does not degrade under Ultra-Violet light or atmospheric pollution.

As Texlon® is extremely long lasting, it can be used as part of the permanent building envelope. Furthermore, as the surface is very smooth and has anti-adhesive properties, Texlon® ETFE self cleanses under the action of rain.

Texlon® combines exceptional light transmission with high insulation. Each layer can incorporate different types of solar shading, enabling the designer to optimise the aesthetic and environmental performance of the building envelope...

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