Luis Marie pleats recycled fabric to create "first-ever all-textile room divider"

Dutch design studio Luis Marie has channelled the traditional craft of pleating to create an acoustic room divider that can stand on its own despite being made entirely from textiles.

Shortlisted in the textile design category of Dezeen Awards 2025, Plissade is billed as the "first-ever all-textile room divider".

Luis Marie founders Fenna van der Klei and Patricio Nusselder designed the sculptural partition to reinterpret textile pleating, a traditional craft where fabric is folded to create various shapes and volumes.

Plissade is composed of an inner layer of felt recycled from post-consumer polyester clothing, while its outer layer is a woven textile made from recycled polyester yarns.

Close-up of pleated room divider — The design channels the traditional craft of textile pleating

The studio used a binder- and adhesive-free stiffening technique to fold both materials into a tight structural form, which is able to stand without additional support.

The two interlocking textile layers form a series of hollow, diamond-shaped tubes that provide structural stability while being easily disassembled.

"This innovative assembly process draws from existing technologies in both the fashion and automotive upholstery industries, applying them in a new context," explained the studio.

"By eliminating the need for adhesives, resins or rigid reinforcements, the design ensures a truly circular product that can be fully disassembled and recycled at the end of its life," Luis Marie said.

A person behing the textile-based room divider in blue — Plissade can be folded away or rolled up when not in use

Only the outer woven yarn was dyed using digital printing techniques, resulting in significantly reduced water and chemical use, according to the studio.

The design was built to be foldable, modular and lightweight, resulting in a versatile acoustic product for both residential and professional settings.

Plissade in red, orange and green hues — The divider comes in different colourways

From its base in Rotterdam, Luis Marie designs products that add more "colour, warmth and comfort in our living environments". The studio aims to challenge the constraints of production and create statement pieces that blur the line between art and design.

Other recent textile designs featured on Dezeen include the Newstalgia flooring that puts nostalgic twist on 1970s and 80s fabric, and a pleated lighting display by A-Poc Able Issey Miyake and Atelier Oï.

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