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Kvadrat Twill Weave Fabric
by Jonathan Olivares
for Kvadrat
Crafted by American designer Jonathan Olivares, Twill Weave offers a contemporary reinterpretation of the classic woolen twill upholstery textile. Originally created for Olivares’s 2016 Twill Weave daybed, the textile mirrors the weave pattern of carbon fiber — the material used in the bed’s frame.
Constructed from thick, voluminous woolen yarns, Twill Weave boasts a full-bodied structure and is woven with a traditional twill binding. Its meticulous production ensures exceptional color precision.
Each colorway pairs two tone-in-tone hues — one in the warp, the other in the weft — carefully selected to reflect the authentic colors of minerals, metals, and ceramics from Harvard University’s Materials Collection. Olivares explains: “I looked to pigments, like the charcoal grey of carbon, that occur naturally within the earth’s crust. The resulting palette embodies the colors of the earth and conceptually connects with carbon fiber.”
The textile’s colorways vary in contrast: some appear nearly unicolored with subtle reflections, while others showcase a striped, three-dimensional effect.
Robust and versatile, Twill Weave suits both public and private interiors, combining natural inspiration with architectural precision.
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Jonathan Olivares
United States
Jonathan Olivares is an American industrial designer whose work bridges form, function, and technology with quiet clarity. Born in Boston in 1981, he graduated from Pratt Institute and established his Los Angeles-based studio in 2006. His practice spans industrial, spatial, and communication design, with a focus on objects that are meant to be used rather than merely observed.
Olivares is known for a thoughtful design process rooted in research, material innovation, and an architectural sensibility. Notable projects include the Olivares Aluminum Chair for Knoll (2012), Aluminum Bench for Zahner (2015), and Vitra Workspace (2015), a hybrid showroom and educational environment. His exhibition Source Material (2014), co-curated with Jasper Morrison and Marco Velardi, explored the inspirations behind iconic design objects. In 2016, he created Room for a Daybed, an installation that explored furniture as spatial tool.
His work has received multiple awards, including the prestigious Compasso d’Oro, and is held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Vitra Design Museum.
With a precise yet poetic approach, Jonathan Olivares continues to shape contemporary design by connecting past and present through purposeful, innovative forms.
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