Designer Merel Karhof’s collection of upholstered furniture pieces, called Windworks, is made using materials produced using wind power, an inexhaustible, and free, energy source.
Watch the video for a little insight into the production process:
In 2010, she set up the ‘Wind Knitting Factory’, which is a completely wind-powered knitting machine where when it’s windy, the machine knits quickly and when it’s calm, it knits more slowly. While generally the machine knits things like scarves, Karhof decided to go bigger and upholster furniture.
Karhof began the collaboration between three millers, that included a saw miller, a color miller, and a knitting miller (herself), in the northern part of Holland where windmills are common. Each of the well-preserved windmills in the area produces a different type of raw material.
The wood gets cut and assembled at the sawmill and then transported by the river to the pigment mill. The yarn is dyed with natural dyes and then it moves on to be knitted into the material for the collection you see here. Each colored pillow section denotes the amount of time needed by the wind to make it.

3 Comments
jap on 06.18.2013 at 14:53 PM
I can see G-star(Vitra) collection in front of my eyes. Hey be original! This is bull shit, sorry for not yours collection
Wojtek on 06.19.2013 at 03:28 AM
Co za bzdura. Id?c tym tropem mo?na powiedzie? spalanie ropy dla ciep?a i energii jest ekologiczne bo powsta?a z wegetaria?skich dinozaurów. ?enada i przerost formy nad tre?ci?. Chyba ?e to jest tylko performance.
Ron Callahan on 06.19.2013 at 10:56 AM
“Designer Merel Karhof’s collection of upholstered furniture pieces, called Windworks, is made using materials produced using wind, an inexhaustible, and free, energy source.”
Produced using WIND POWER… not wind. The materials are not made of or from wind. Would you say that the materials are made of coal if they got their energy from the local utility?
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