Scottish designer Catherine Aitken has won this year’s Time to Design new talent award with a collection of seating made with colourful cotton cord.

Working at the Danish Art Workshops, Catherine used lengths of cotton cord from Japan to explore techniques of binding and sewing. The result is a colorful series of stools and a benches combining wood, metal and cotton cord.

Catherine explains, “I spent a great deal of time searching for the perfect cotton cord, and finally settled on two; the first a very natural and malleable and the second more refined with a slight sheen. These choices added an appropriate level of contrast of matte versus satin and provided a little cushioning.”

As the winner Catherine has been granted a three months residency at the Danish Art Workshops, a two week exhibition at Normann Copenhagen’s flagship store, career coaching by the company OeO and received 6700 € donated by the Danish Association of Wood and Furniture Industries.

See the stools in person at Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store from November 22nd through December 6th. Photos by Malene Jorck Heide.