Annette Douglas

Annette Douglas lives and works for textiles, for design and inno­va­tion. Her special ability lies in her twin compe­tence, design and engi­neering. Since 1999, she runs her own company Annette Douglas Textiles with a small team (www.douglas-textiles.ch). She is winner of pres­ti­gious awards like Design Preis Schweiz or Best of Best Red Dot Award. Annette Douglas has dual British and Swiss nation­ality and is the fourth gener­a­tion of her family to work in the textile industry.

Since 2004 her focus lies on textile concepts, on the sense of hearing. Mean­while, Annette Douglas Textiles is the brand for acoustic textiles solu­tions. That is why she invented the CTI research project in 2009. Annette Douglas carried out this research project in collab­o­ra­tion with the EMPA (Federal Labo­ra­to­ries for Mate­rials Science & Tech­nology) in her capacity as the initiator, project manager and commer­cial partner. The first translu­cent acoustic fabric collec­tion Annette Douglas Textiles ACOUSTICS® is since 2011 on the market.

Annette Douglas has a great affinity for archi­tec­ture. During her studies she already devel­oped and designed textile façades and other textile appli­ca­tions for archi­tec­ture. Today she can point out a number of build­ings with textiles that were tailor-made for archi­tec­ture, for example the Univer­sity Campus Toni Areal in Zurich, the Rehab Clinic Schinz­nach, the UBS Head Office Zurich or the Baroque Pavilion Stockargut for the Univer­sity Zurich.