A welcoming space to drink tea with friends and family, or a comforting place to play cards or break bread – Living Room is a project designed to use the qualities of Kvadrat Febrik textiles to redesign the dining table.

Created by Visibility, Living Room draws its inspiration from traditions of dining and seating in the Middle East. Visibility focused its project on seating typologies that are low to the ground and arranged around the perimeter of a room – an arrangement that the studio identified as having roots in Sufist ideas surrounding harmony.

Living Room proposes a circular structure organised around a central table that is upholstered in a blue Uniform Melange textile – a reference to the reflecting pools often found in early Islamic architecture. Around this table, seating radiates outwards, all upholstered in red hues chosen for their correlation to textile traditions from the Middle East.

Designed to engender a familial warmth, Living Room makes use of knitted textiles’ capacity to provide the soft curvature and comfort necessary for dealing with the human body. Typical of Visibility’s work, the installation draws from research into historical seating typologies, distilling the resultant ideas into forms that resonate with a contemporary audience.