While the intricacies of handmade floor coverings have been around for centuries, the Texas based design firm Rauser is changing the game with their “Redeploy Rug”.
Designed by Rebekah Rauser, the 100% wool creation takes its inspiration from Russian army blankets: the pattern is hand stitched and the tubular design is then stuffed with wool-blend army surplus blankets. A commentary on the times? Perhaps. A beautiful design with a unique concept and organic materials – we think so!
Creating the illusion of depth is a key aspect of two-dimensional design. The ability to make a flat surface appear three-dimensional provides the viewer with a delightfully false impression of space. For textile designers, this illusion is often incorporated within patterns and designs in order to give the piece a higher level of interest and complexity.
Angela Adams has taken the notion of depth to another level by sidestepping the illusion and instead giving the viewer the real thing through the art of surface relief. The collection of Wool Rugs by designer Angela Adams can be described as traditional hand-tufted rugs with a modern twist. The heavy texture and depth of these vivid and original rugs provides a topographic quality to the work evocative of relief sculpture. Available in a wide variety of colorful patterns, all of Angela Adams rugs are made with 100% New Zealand wool and are GoodWeave certified.
The effect of restricting a color palette to simply black and white is well… not so ‘black and white’. The outcome of this chromatic odd couple ranges from classic to contemporary, from specific time periods to timeless elegance. The reason that using black and white together evokes such a large range of feelings is due to the fact that it has always been and always will be in style.
William Switzer Collection – Piedmontese Side Table
J Banks Collection – Fulton Chair
Ann Sacks Mosaics – ipanema
Rodolph Fabrics – left to right: In Sync, Sequel, Oracle, and Bolero
Geometry is a wonderful design tool for producing balanced work that requires intricate and detailed repetition. By using nonrepresentational shapes such as lines, circles, ellipses, triangles, rectangles, and polygons, designers can create complex patterns that continue on infinitely and result in a complex motif that is almost mesmerizing to the eye.
Pollack fabric collection – Circumstance
Nomi outdoor fabric collection – Omei
Alicia D Keshishian, Carpets of Imagination – Parqué
Alicia has always loved color and texture — a passion that she inherited from her Armenian-born grandfather, a renowned Oriental rug authority. The smell of the wool, the touch of the fibers, and the variety of patterns were all integral parts of Alicia’s early life. Working from her home studio in Northern California, she maintains a high level of reverence for tradition and craftsmanship that compliments her company’s dedication to eco-sensitive practices.
With the belief that rugs are an ideal medium for creating a living piece of art, Keshishian custom designs each piece so that it reflects her client’s sense of style and beauty.
Alicia D. Keshishian has always loved color and texture — a passion that she inherited from her Armenian-born grandfather, a renowned Oriental rug authority. The smell of the wool, the touch of the fibers, and the variety of patterns were all integral parts of Alicia’s early life. Working from her home studio in Northern California, she maintains a high level of reverence for tradition and craftsmanship that compliments her company’s dedication to eco-sensitive practices.
With the belief that rugs are an ideal medium for creating a living piece of art, Keshishian custom designs each piece so that it reflects her client’s sense of style and beauty.
Fast Talk from Alicia D. Keshishian features playful swirls of color on an ever-evolving background; circular and squiggly lines layer together to provide a sense of complexity to this overall clean and modern design. The Persimmon colorway consists of a vivid orange ground beautifully contrasted with multiple shades of green and deeper shades of orange and brown.
100% hand-carded, hand-spun, Tibetan wool; all wool is dyed-in-the-raw, so the gradual color transitions in the background are achieved through expert weaving, not through simply dyeing after the fact. RugMark certified.
Lonseal’s versatile and durable surfacing material entitled Lonelements Sahara, consists of an inverted leather aesthetic suggestive of never-ending tracks in the sand and offers a lustrous yet understated visual motif for interiors with broad design parameters. Lonelements Sahara vailable in a variety of earth tones.
An art director, designer and illustrator for more than 25 years, Alicia D. Keshishian has always loved color and texture. In this brief new video, Alicia speaks about her celebration of color, her inspirations and processes, her lineage in the carpet business through her grandfather, and shares her studio with us.
