Simon Keane-Cowell   Simon Keane-Cowell  Man of the Cloth:
Cristian Zuzunaga talks textile and more  In the (unfortunate)
hierarchy of design disciplines – just ask any architect and
they'll confirm this – textile design has traditionally occupied
a less-than-superior position. Spanish-born Londoner Cristian
Zuzunaga has been troubling the creative order of things
recently, however, with his conceptually and technically
innovative work for such leading textile manfuacturers as
Kvadrat and Nanimarquina. The interesting thing, though, is that
he's not a textile designer, at least in terms of training.
Architonic met up with Zuzunaga at the Design Post in Cologne
during this year's Orgatec fair to pick at some threads.  Man of
the Cloth: Cristian Zuzunaga talks textile and more  He may have
trained as a graphic designer, but Cristian Zuzunaga is anything
but two-dimensional.  Like the material construction of his
concept-led designs for high-end Danish textile manufacturer
Kvadrat, the young Spanish-born creativ