The Nova textile collection is the most-recent collaboration between design studio Maharam and Dutch fashion designer Sander Lak, and expands on his exploration of colour across a comprehensive series of wool textiles that was first introduced in 2021 with his Gemma, Gemma Multi and Terra designs.

With the Nova textile collection from Maharam, Sander Lak brings his instinct for colour to a dynamic large-scale pattern and translates his “omnivorous colour vocabulary in a pattern.” Of his method and the collaboration with Maharam to develop Nova, Lak says “For me, everything starts with colour. After using colour to celebrate material through the wools, I wanted to develop a pattern that captures our experience of colour in a space and how colour flows, grows, and moves – like starting to mix a pot of paint.” 

For the Nova textile collection, designer Sander Lak – renowned for his ethereal subversions of proportion and material – selected a palette that was influenced by architecture, material culture and a diverse range of ephemera that included everything from ceramics, vintage cars, confections and electrical cables to digital icons, corporate logos and offices supplies. Extracting each colour in the Nova collection from its original context, Lak’s designs explore the carefully calibrated interactions between tone and texture. 

Maharam and Lak worked closely together to develop the nine colourways that comprise the Nova textile collection, creating custom yarns dyed with precision to match the hues specificed by the fashion designer. Using four distinct colours in the weft – for example, coral, lemon, cerise and electric blue or dusty rose, navy, pale grey and forest – that are woven with a five hue in the warp, the vibrant and evocative tonal explorations are achieved. 

The nine distinct colourways in the Nova textile collection from Maharam by Sander Lak are: Quantum, Pulsar, Proton, Flux, Doppler, Nucleus, Diode, Quasar and Laser.