AS PART OF THE FUTURE COMFORT COLLABORATION, OUR EXPERIMENTAL CHAIR MADE FROM TIMBER & KLOKE TEXTILE REMNANTS, WE VISITED SARAH PARKES (SMALLTOWN) AND SCOTT MCCORMACK (ROOPACORP) AT THEIR FARM IN FISH CREEK, ON GUNAIKURNAI COUNTRY IN SOUTH GIPPSLAND. TWO MAKERS, TWO SHEDS.
This is where Future Comfort emerged, a project rooted in a simple but urgent question: what if comfort was built from what we already have? The answer took shape here, in the green hills of South Gippsland.
In one shed, Sarah knots and weaves sculptural rope works that map narratives of place and home, pushing macramé firmly into high design with an exploratory approach to technique and materials that has defined her Smalltown practice for over 18 years. Living on Gunaikurnai country has had a deep impact on her work, with a renewed focus on craft and materiality. For Future Comfort, she created rope on a DIY, drill-powered machine using Kloke's own textile remnants, turning what we already had into something entirely new.
In the other, Roopa, a shopfitter and joiner with over 30 years on the tools. His work, including our Brunswick St store, is defined by meticulous detail and deep material knowledge. For Future Comfort, he worked with timber offcuts, bringing the same precision and problem-solving to waste materials that he brings to every project.
Long time friends of Kloke, together, they’ve made a chair built from what we already had. Reworked, reactivated, and on view at our Little Collins Street store throughout Melbourne Design Week, 14–24 May 2026.
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