A Perfect Fit: Nau and Kvadrat Febrik Celebrate 10 Years With a Full-Circle Collaboration.

Detail of Regos, designed by Patricia Urquiola for Kvadrat Febrik.

Detail of Fat Tulip Modular, designed by Adam Goodrum for NAU, upholstered in Regos, designed by Patricia Urquiola for Kvadrat Febrik. Photo: Lumea Photo.

Ten years is either nothing or extraordinary—and in design, there’s very little in between. If it’s an Arne Jacobsen, a decade is just Tuesday. But most things designed today won’t survive a house move, let alone ten years of cultural shifting, spatial reinvention and changing tastes. Fat Tulip sits in that interesting middle space. It wasn’t designed as a statement. It was designed as a system—something that adapts, that rearranges, that fits different lives in different rooms.

To mark the 10th anniversary of Adam Goodrum’s original Fat Tulip lounge for Nau, the Australian furniture brand has returned to where the story began: a collaboration with Kvadrat Febrik. The result is the new Fat Tulip Modular—a fully evolved lounge system—coming soon in Kvadrat Febrik’s latest upholstery textile, Regos, designed by Patricia Urquiola. It’s not a nostalgia exercise. It’s proof that this conversation still has somewhere to go.

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“An object must justify its existence through its story and detailing.” — Adam Goodrum, Designer of Fat Tulip Modular for NAU

The Fat Tulip Modular is the third iteration of Goodrum’s original design, following the Mega Tulip. Built on the same sculptural DNA — those softly rounded forms, the generous seat height of 430mm, the distinctive rolled arms — the new system expands the vocabulary into a fully reconfigurable format. Seven modules (Straight, Arm Left, Arm Right, Chaise Left, Chaise Right, Corner Small and Corner Large) can be combined into configurations that span a quiet corner of a living room to a sprawling commercial lounge environment. The modularity is the entire point. Rather than prescribing how a space should feel, Fat Tulip Modular supports the way people gather, work and live—relaxed, generous, adaptable to whatever the room asks of it. Goodrum’s guiding philosophy has always been that objects must justify their existence through story and craft—and the Modular does exactly that, adding practical adaptability without sacrificing the original’s elegance.

The choice of Kvadrat Febrik as the upholstery partner is as deliberate as the furniture itself. Founded in the Netherlands and partly owned by Kvadrat— the Danish textile house established in 1968 with deep roots in Scandinavia’s design tradition—Kvadrat Febrik has built its reputation by treating knitted textiles not as a fashion technique borrowed from apparel, but as a design medium in its own right. It’s a genuinely distinct position in the upholstery world, and one that makes particular sense here: knitted textiles offer multidirectional stretch without elastic yarn, allowing the fabric to wrap cleanly around organic, curved forms that would give a woven textile serious trouble. For a sofa defined by its sculptural softness, the fit—literally and conceptually—is exact.

Detail of Regos, designed by Patricia Urquiola for Kvadrat Febrik.

“Regos draws on the layered textures of bedrock, with contrasting tones and scattered patterns creating an organic, irregular feel. Fragmented motifs appear subtly misaligned, disrupting the grid to add depth.” — Patricia Urquiola

WIP for Myr, designed by Note Design Studio for Kvadrat Febrik. Myr translates to wetlands in Swedish, and the reference is apt. A raised, voluminous surface achieved through double jacquard knitting in 100% post-consumer recycled polyester, the textile pairs two hues of the same colour in each of its five colourways to amplify its distinctive three-dimensionality.

Seen on the left, Mylla is a quieter counterpart to Myr. Meaning humus in Swedish, the rich organic layer formed by decomposing plant matter, the name suits the textile’s stippled, mélange surface. Also crafted from 100% post-consumer recycled polyester, it’s designed to work in dialogue with Myr. Photo: Jannick Pihl Rasmussen.

Mylla & Myr campaign, shot on location in New York. Photo: Jannick Pihl Rasmussen.

Regos, Urquiola’s contribution to the Kvadrat Febrik collection, draws on the concept of regolith—the loose, heterogeneous layer of material covering solid bedrock—to create a surface that feels at once structured and organic. The two-tone, double-knit construction pairs a yarn-dyed wool face with a recycled polyester back made from PET bottles, while the inlaid spun yarn uses 60% recycled textile waste from Kvadrat Febrik’s own Dutch production. As Urquiola puts it, Regos delivers “contrasting tones and scattered patterns creating an organic, irregular feel”—a description that could just as easily apply to the furniture it’s wrapping. Twelve colourways span delicate neutrals through to bold greens and blues, giving designers a serious palette to work with. Kvadrat Febrik’s broader ethos—asking architects and designers to consider textile as a starting point for spatial thinking, not a finish applied at the end—runs through every decision here.

Underpinning all of this is Nau’s Cultivated program—a repair and reupholstery initiative that extends the lifecycle of Fat Tulip pieces rather than replacing them. It’s design thinking that asks the harder question: not just how to make something beautiful, but how to make something worth keeping.

Fat Tulip Modular is coming soon via Nau Design. Regos by Kvadrat Febrik is available now via Kvadrat.

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[Images courtesy of Nau Design and Kvadrat.]