Flexible palm rib surface from the Eindhoven material study

RESEARCH & COLLABORATIONS

Exploring material, process and possibility.

Through collaboration and experimentation, we explore new ways of working with palm rib across furniture, objects, surfaces and space.

Peacock Material Lab collaborators at the workshop

Flexible palm-rib chair prototype from the Eindhoven material study

DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN × PEACOCK

What else can this material become?

For one semester, Peacock opened palm rib to students from the Do/Make Department at Design Academy Eindhoven. Guided by designer and jewellery artist Estela Saez-Vilanova, the students explored the material through a series of studies, each proposing another possibility for its use.

The collaboration continues the studio's approach to gereed: preserving a craft by expanding what it can become.

VIEW ART IN PROCESS ↗

01

DRYING

Stabilising the material for more controlled production.

02

FORMING

Testing turning, pressing, cutting and new geometries.

03

SURFACES

Building repeatable cladding and pattern systems.

04

WASTE

Looking again at offcuts, dust and material that remains.

PEACOCK MATERIAL LAB / EINDHOVEN

From experiment to possibility.

Twenty-three students explored palm rib through prototypes, surfaces, structures and objects. These pages from Catalogue ’26 document the studies and their different approaches to the same material.

Palm rib studies: Floor Lamp and Flexible Surface — 01–02 / Texture, repetition and flexible structure

Palm rib studies: Living Fiber and Light by Subtraction — 03–04 / Fibre, composite material and light

Experiments move from repeated structures to new surfaces and ways of working with light. The full catalogue follows these studies into further material directions.

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