Bemz and Tom Dixon have teamed up to create a collection of design covers for the DELAKTIG living platform - the collective brainchild of IKEA and Tom Dixon. The covers will be available to the public on February 1st to coincide with IKEA’s official DELAKTIG launch across Europe. The unique covers – available exclusively at Bemz – can transform DELAKTIG into a designer piece.
The DELAKTIG living platform was conceived by IKEA and Tom Dixon and is designed to be an open source product, hacked by external companies and individuals. The Bemz x Tom Dixon collection of design covers for DELAKTIG makes a luxury hack instantly accessible to the public.
"In their partnership with Tom Dixon, IKEA took their first step to actively support - and in fact encourage - hacking of their products, which in essence is what Bemz is all about. It was an honour to be invited to take part in this innovative open source project as a textile design partner. Working with Tom Dixon to co-create a collection of luxury covers was a dream opportunity for Bemz to combine our respective expertise in the area of design, craftsmanship and innovation", says Lesley Pennington, Founder of Bemz.
“Part of the reason we started the IKEA project was that we were fascinated by the hacking culture that exists around it. After a bit of research, we saw that Bemz were the pre-eminent aftermarket adapters of IKEA products. Alongside producing a few high-end custom attachments for our own living platform, we felt Bemz would be the right partner to deliver three distinct covers beyond what IKEA themselves would usually produce”, says Tom Dixon, Founder and Creative Director.
DELAKTIG is conceived as a furniture platform to express one’s own creativity or functional needs - whether that means altering the platform to become a bed, a sofa, an office, a lounge space, or completely changing the aesthetic of the piece using textile covers. The Bemz x Tom Dixon collaboration worked with pattern, stitching, fit and silhouette to enable the transformation of DELAKTIG into a designer piece.
“We wanted three fabrics that were as disparate as possible, appealing to different clients as well as demonstrating the breadth of the appeal of the product. We chose one that was really talking about Britishness (Floral), one which was one of our own textile prints from our latest collection (Superrock), which we wanted to see on a larger furniture piece and one which was more of an everyday, slightly distressed fashion fabric akin to jeans material (Natural)”, says Tom Dixon, Founder and Creative Director.