The best furniture wears Gabriel. Gabriel beyond Trevira.
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This year Gabriel turns 175. Its anniversary book, Interwoven, opens at an excavation: the old turbine house in Aalborg where the company was born.
Sat on, washed, valued, even cherished. Gabriel’s Trevira CS upholstery.
Many design classics begin as working things. They are taken up by people who admire them, adapted by designers and kept in use for generations.
Trevira CS. A fibre forty-five years in commercial interiors, and almost no one writes its name.
A trademark registered on a misremembered Latin place name in 1932. Everything that happened afterwards was deliberate — including eight years spent solving a problem nobody had asked for.
Painted. Not printed. Two cities, one wall.
Europe’s most coveted wall arrived from Canton by ship, in numbered sheets, painted by hand — for a market that didn’t exist at home.
One supplier. Many hats. One is backlit across a hotel lobby. One survives being scrubbed with antiseptic.
You can’t see the difference on a sample board. The building will.