Carpets, a valuable design solution for decorating rooms
Color, texture and geometry intertwine in imaginative, original, unique ways, giving rise to an indispensable decorative element in modern homes, rugs, capable of giving identity and revitalizing rooms, as well as giving a cozy, warm atmosphere. Pleasing to touch and versatile they exhibit multifaceted patterns carved into the fleece that make them an ideal component to embellish the style of the home, now in the tapestry variant, placed on the wall instead of the headboard of the bed, now as the protagonist in the center of the room, or located in the middle of a well-lit entryway that enhances each and every nuance. In vogue today are craft work, especially those achieved by techniques that favor textural appearance and irregular lines, precious natural fabrics such as linen, wool, and cotton, as well as embroidery, variations on the theme of warp and weft, applications of layers of different materials, and the revival of theancient oriental dyeing of ikat. It is essential that when choosing your rug you take into consideration that it should harmonize with its surroundings in terms of proportions, and with the furnishings in terms of size, colors and graphic patterns. Among the contemporary patterns most beloved by design enthusiasts are patchwork, with a modern, boho chic flavor; vintage revisited in a current key, a strand that counts Gio Ponti and Joe Colombo among its masters;optical, especially in pastel tones; the decomposition of shapes and volumes that creates unusual geometries and plays of color; and the timeless floral.
Amini’s ‘Anatolia Patchwork’ rugs, blend past and modernity
Colorful and with timeless appeal, the rugs in Amini ‘s ‘Anatolia Patchwork‘ collection have an exotic flavor that harks back to Turkey, the place of origin of the fabrics used to make them. They are in fact the result of assembling fragments of old 100% wool carpets, worked with the patchwork technique, the union of different textures, different gradations of color, patterns that instead of clashing come together perfectly, making the sum of these strange addendums in absolute harmony. Patchwork is a magical, poetic textile art with a fascinating origin, meaning, and story about scraps to be ennobled and tears to be sewn, perfectly represented in Amini’s signature one-of-a-kind pieces.
‘Island’ and ‘Tangram’ by Sirecom, contemporary geometries between art and furniture
Carpets become modern, abstract paintings that embellish rooms and floors when bold geometries and color combinations come into play. There are two signature collections Sirecom that most embody this conceptual style, the ‘Island’ and the ‘‘Tangram’. In the first, geometric shapes connect with each other to propose unexpected solutions, together with a continuous search for unprecedented but totally attuned tones, which concur to reconstruct a coherent and balanced unicum. The combinations are particularly harmonious and exclusive: dusty pinks and dark reds, variations of grays and light blues enter the rooms and denote them chromatically without being invasive. The Tangram line, on the other hand, is inspired by the beauty of ancient Chinese culture and plays with weaves and puzzles. New shapes, unprecedented, They thus pervade contemporary living spaces, releasing with tactile and visual emotions the unique personality of one’s space. The carpets in this line, in various shades, are made with the 80- or 100-knot hand-knotting technique from wool, silk, viscose and bamboo.
With ‘Cobblestone’ in the home, the floors of Italy’s historic city centers are revived
Carpets that are inspired by historic Italian squares, the pavements of ancient villages and their timeless geometries. G.T. Design’s Cobblestone rug collection , represents an evolution in Deanna Comellini ‘s research into organic forms, producing specimens with unique, irregular and fluid profiles somewhere between a circle and a square. The style is unmistakably reminiscent of the characteristic tile-inlaid pavements found on many streets in the Belpaese, in which fields of color in shades of blue and beige are separated by delicate grooves carved into the pile of the carpet. Made of Tencel, a fiber of extraordinary softness that is among the most environmentally friendly on the market today, it has the special feature that its format can be ‘expandable,’ making it particularly suitable for custom flooring included in interior design projects.
‘From the sun to the moon,’ Kasthall’s rugs decorating the walls
Not only floors. Rugs today are true decorative elements, so design has also rediscovered their appeal on walls, as was once the case with tapestries. The Swedish company Kashtall has come up with a particular line signed by Lara Bohinc, a Slovenian designer, named ‘From the Sun to the Moon‘ that recalls the perfect balance between empty and full spaces typical of Japanese Zen gardens. The collection includes two rugs, a set of decorative pillows, and two tapestries ‘North Pole’ and ‘South Pole‘, handmade in pure wool with linen effect and bangs in 100 percent pure linen. As one would expect, the names are derived from the semi-circular crest of blond brass, semi-circular – the North and South Poles, in fact – below which are bold lines of black and a mix of geometric shapes of various sizes and colors.At the bottom, linen bangs of different lengths in pink, black and earth colors extend in the direction of gravity. A masterpiece of decorative art capable of embellishing without weighing down rooms by giving style, originality and sophistication.
