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Maria Wolff Metternich is a German designer. During her Master Studies in Textile Design in 2017-19 at The Swedish School of Textiles in Borås/ Sweden, Maria discovered the potential of knit for furniture and interior design. Throughout her internship at the fabric department of Céline LVHM in London in 2015, she gained precious knowledge about diverse qualitative materials, structures and colors. This experience inspired her to work on fabrics for the body. Her degree collection La Fille Discrète was presented at Fashionclash Festival Maastricht in 2016.
Within the Master Studies, her focus lays on creating Comfort Zones, emphasized through the relationship between knitted surfaces and filling material, which highlights the potential of the knit serving as a cover and decorative element. But most importantly, it gives the possibility to the textile to create its own filling, and opens up to furniture design.
By working on curtains for the Art Academy of Maastricht/ The Netherlands after her graduation in textile design 2016, Maria discovered her interest for interior, playing with elements as light and space, designing fabrics in bigger scale. The blinder collection Active Screens, which was formed and currently developed further, together with Juliette Berthonneau, has clearly deepen her passion for interior fabrics.
Combining materials, colors and images with each other form the essence of her design. Observing and seeing the beauty in details with open and awaken heart and eyes, reflects the poetic character of Maria’s work. A clear and objective look, go well together with the emotional perception. Moreover, intuition plays an essential role within the design process which is used as one basic, and ever balanced and present method. “You can never fully design the outcome of the created design, but you can design possibilities of what can happen, which triggers.“

Currently, while developing further her seating objects, Maria is looking at alternative ways of building up volume and comfort, as in more sustainable materiality, for example. Sustainable design also equally relates to the challenge of creating something, which can be looked at and be enjoyed for a longer period of time. Designing the end of something belongs to the process of creating, as in material compositions. Sustainability offers many perspectives and viewpoints, which makes it challenging but motivating to work with. Especially now, the term of sustainability is reinvented more than ever.
In summer 2020 the prototype of the lounger received a Red Dot Design Award, marked as “best of the best” in the category Design Concept.
Furthermore Maria was a finalist of Dorothy Waxman New York Textile Month competition.

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Featured in:
Red Dot Design Award
New York Textile Month 2020
OVNi Festival Niece
Modern Interiör Magazin, Sweden
LA TOTALE
Luform, Ludwig Forum Aachen
Vogue Italia