The two teams worked closely together to develop a furniture collection that celebrates innovative thinking from both the industrial design and fashion worlds.

The limited edition range comprises four rocking chairs and two screens made from welded steel frames with recycled parachute upholstery. The simple steel structures provide a “blank canvas” for the parachute material, allowing the textile to be the most expressive element of each piece.

The Canopy Collection uses the strict geometry of the steel frames as a base on which to experiment with innovative and forward-thinking recycled parachute upholstery. Each of the four rocking chairs – which all have the same framework – showcases a different quality of the parachute material, from a highly-controlled and simple expression to a raw, sculptural form. 

The construction of the steel frame reflects the expression of the parachute material: in the more minimal format, the frame is polished and finely finished, whilst in the most expressive format, the welded joins are left unfinished and the steel remains in a raw state that showcases the production process

Six years on from the Canopy collection, RÆBURN returned to collaborate with LAYER again, this time on SHIELD — a three-piece collection built around climate resilience and adaptive design, created to mark the experience design agency's tenth anniversary. 

RÆBURN unveiled the work at 101010, LAYER's anniversary exhibition, staged in the Project Room at 10 Corso Como during Milan Design Week. The two studios developed the collection together, guided by shared commitments to responsible design, circularity and innovation.

SHIELD comprised a cape, jacket and bag, each built from reclaimed and deadstock materials. The cape combined deadstock parachute nylon with recycled down and original airbrake taping. The jacket was cut from high-density polyethylene in a Swedish digital camouflage, fitted with reclaimed airbrake canopy tapes and a ventilation system. The bag shared the cape's material palette and incorporated reused military hardware.