Fruit of the loom

Acclaim for Zuzunaga/Teixidors range.

They've proved a winning combination: the contemporary textile designer with a gift for mixing colours, and one of Spain's most respected weaving companies that still uses manual looms. 

Integrate: Time and Space is the award-winning collection of blankets and throws designed by London-based Cristian Zuzunaga, known for his uplifting and visually-demanding 'pixel' designs, and Teixidors, a co-operative weaving business based in Terrassa close to Barcelona.

Integrate pieces have complex yet subtle colourways that close-up have Zuzunaga's trademark pixel design. 'Yes, the collection is a further evolution on the relationship between digital and analogue technologies,' he says. 'In this collection I wanted to explore colour and texture. The plaids are woven with a manual loom, with the human at the core of production. The final designs when looked at from a certain distance appear to have qualities that are inherent of digital technology, a certain glow and flicker effect.'

Responses to the collection have been hugely positive, says Zuzunaga: 'I think what people pick from it is the use of colour plus the way the textile is constructed and the quality of the yarns. And the designs are 'open' in a way that seems random, unexpected and fresh. That was the point of Integrate, to do something fresh, that would attract people and heighten their senses.' Integrate won an Editors Award at this year's ICFF furniture exhibition in New York. It was shown last month at Tent, part of London Design Festival .