DEDAR X THE JOSEF & ANNI ALBERS FOUNDATION DEBUT A TEXTILE TRIBUTE AT MDW2025

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Tribute to the visionary legacy of Anni Albers

At Milan Design Week 2025, Italian textile house Dedar unveils Weaving Anni Albers Project, an evocative collaboration with the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, reinterpreting five iconic works by the Bauhaus legend into a refined textile collection. Presented on the 16th floor of the Torre Velasca, the exhibition brings together design, history, and material experimentation in a striking dialogue between past and present.

The collection—five jacquard fabrics—draws from Albers’s works created between 1936 and 1974, each reimagined through Dedar’s lens of technical innovation and aesthetic precision. From pictorial weavings to a textile rendering of a previously unrealized drawing, the fabrics embody Albers’s dual embrace of artistry and utility. Intended for use in upholstery, curtains, and panels, they offer both visual depth and functional beauty.

The installation, designed by DWA Design Studio, references both archive architecture and the abstraction of a loom. Modular grids, archival drawers, and BBPR-designed desks create a space for tactile engagement and quiet discovery. Each textile is displayed with the intention of revealing its depth – its interplay of light and shadow, the tactility of its weave, and the modernity inherent in its composition.

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A short film by Alessandro del Vigna completes the narrative, offering a poetic glimpse into the project’s spirit.

For Caterina and Raffaele Fabrizio, CEO and Creative Director of Dedar, the collaboration reflects not only reverence but curiosity. “Albers taught us that art is courage,” they note. “This is just the beginning.”

As Nicholas Fox Weber, Director of the Foundation, puts it: “Dedar has brought Anni’s materials to life with superlative care. We feel she would have been thrilled.”