Amgs (Belgium)
Oruga
Amgs is a design studio specialized in textile research, created by Colombian designer Ana María Gómez in 2015 and co-run by Véronique van Lierde since 2019. Oruga is a project that detects in a modular manner the experience of living in domestic space. It emerged from the passionate interest of the two designers in the relationship between fabrics, bodies, space, theatre, costumes, performances, and scenographies.
Taking a nomadic approach to furniture, which can be moved around within a home according to people's needs, this is part of thinking of pieces as fluid objects that adapt from time to time to our needs. They are knitted with cotton yarn in an unsystematic way, in which the machine decides the rhythm by itself, knitting randomly after being instructed to do so. Each piece is thus unique and different from others that could be produced in the same way.