Elements of Time

SILVERLINING FURNITURE LAUNCHES ‘ELEMENTS OF TIME’ A NEW NEO-LUXURY COLLECTION AT THE MONACO YACHT SHOW

PARVIS PISCINE STAND PP1825 – 28 SEPTEMBER 2019

The ‘Elements of Time’ collection reflects Silverlining’s determination to create more-sustainable and maintenance-free luxury materials, using tactile and natural finishes, that are more suitable for today’s informal indoor/outdoor living. The inspiration behind the 2019 collection is the natural environment and how the Universe has changed over the millennia.

The 16 innovative furniture designs and samples explore how ‘elements of time’ can be interpreted through creative thinking, the perfection of skills and, more importantly, the time to make a precious object. Names like Tectonic Plateaus, Lunar Halo, Wave Transition, Prussian Vectors, Iridescent Flare and Tefoni Fire are a nod to the inspiration behind the sample and furniture concepts. “The new designs and finishes demonstrate that it is possible to create luxury finishes using more-sustainable, locally sourced, recycled and rejected materials,” commented Founder Mark Boddington. “We all have a desire to be more caring of our planet.” The collection demonstrates Silverlining’s interest in the natural world and the relatively untapped potential to create luxury finishes from more-sustainable materials using the complex and precise techniques that the company is known for. Sustainable materials include: straw, softwoods, palm leaves and bio-resins; rejected materials such as second-grade leathers; and wood veneer marquetry, wire-eroded metal and leather offcuts. In addition, many of the finishes are produced using natural non-toxic bleaches, glues, resins, dyes and waxes. These neo-luxury finishes lead the way in ‘luxury with a conscience,’ an increasingly important consideration for today’s designers.

Tectonic Plateaus

Stepped, textured cedar wood plateaus, which transition from light to dark tones, contrast with the smooth walls of mottled black-and-brown end-grain palm wood and brushed and polished almond-gold-plated blades. This sample demonstrates how an ordinary softwood and grass (botanically, palm is a grass) can be transformed into striking materials by the ingenious use of texture, pattern, light, shade and reflectivity.

Lunar Halo

Bisected by a moon-gold-leaf crescent, contrasting black and white English oak finishes – one textured and scorched; the other smooth, chip-carved and oxidised – reference the dark oceans and light highlands on the Moon’s surface. Scorched oak is created by charring its surface using the ancient Japanese craft of Shou Sugi Ban, which produces long-lasting, beautiful charcoal-black wood that is resistant to fire, infestation and decay.

Wave Transition

Sculpted sand waves of textured and natural waxed English oak morph into a hammered and lacquered nubuck leather beach shelf and sea floor, separated by a textured brass serpentine wave. Each one-off piece of leather is created by repeated cycles of wetting, hammering and colouring, before finally removing the surface layer to produce the dimpled and mottled appearance.

Prussian Vectors

Patterns inspired by wind-direction vector charts, and created by pinstripe decoration in Prussian-blue full-grain coach-hide leather, converge towards a curved border of chip-carved and oxidised teak. Referencing a pinstripe Savile Row Suit, the light-blue linear patterns are created by cutting through the dark-blue polished leather surface to reveal its lighter core fibres.

Falling Feathers

Inspired by Lady Amherst’s pheasant feathers, the micro-etching technique records a moment in time as textural lime-waxed feathers appear to float above fumed end-grain oak oyster marquetry. An oyster is a thin circular slice of wood – in this case from an ancient English oak – that reveals the characteristic concentric patterns of a tree’s annual growth rings.

Iridescent Flare

Starburst straw marquetry patterns morph from light to dark over twisting surfaces, and an undercut casts shadows over the hand-tooled ebony coach-hide leather and brushed brass surfaces. Straw marquetry makes use of a humble and sustainable material, which is a by-product of wheat, rye or oat straw, to create intricate patterns in an infinite number of wonderfully luminous colours and shades.

2019 Collection

T E C T O N I C P L AT E AU S FA L L I N G F E AT H E R S

WAV E T R A N S I T I O N G L AC I A L S H I F T

PA L M L E AT H E R D RO P L E T C O H E S I O N

S H AG R E E N E Y E L E T A S H W H I R L P O O L

LU N A R H A L O O C E A N G L O W

B I G B A N G P RU S S I A N V E C T O R S

R A D I A L S W E E P I R I D E S C E N T F L A R E

TA F O N I R E D PA L M ST R I AT I O N

Silverlining Furniture has been creating furniture for iconic yachts, residences and palaces since 1985. The company combines creative design, innovative craftsmanship, advanced materials, technology and science. Silverlining furniture can be found on many of the world’s leading yachts, including Al Lusail, Amaryllis, Anna, Aquila, Aurora Borealis, Bravo Eugenia, Here Comes The Sun, Kismet, Lady S, Madame Gu, Moon Sand and Palladium. In recognition of its contribution to Britain’s creative design industry, Silverlining has recently received two Queen’s Awards – one for Export and one for Innovation.

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‘Elements of Time’ - Monaco 2019

For press enquiries before or during the show, please contact: Nick Jeffery Tel: +377 93 250 630Email: nj@nickjeffery.com Or Mark BoddingtonTel: +44 7976 058 721Email: mark.boddington@silverliningfurniture.com