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A WALK ON THE
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CORTIJO CARE
A VISIT FROM
Saint
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Jessie J
DOING IT HER WAY
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Andrea Böck, interior designer and
founder of Ambience Home Design, a
leading interior architecture and design
and Middle East, assisting her clients in
decorating and furnishing their homes down
since 2002
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just can’t believe it’s December again - it seems
like only yesterday that
we were getting our Xmas
decorations out!
It has been a fast and fabulous creative year in all
respects. We’ve had great
projects, wonder ful clients
and I’ve truly enjoyed writing Home Couture articles
for you. So to wrap up 2013,
I’d like to show you some
amazing designs to deco-
rate your floors. As we enter
the winter months, I thought
it a most welcome subject.
More and more, the floor is
becoming the focal point
in design schemes. We
are bringing back old cultures and experimenting
with symmetrical patterns,
combining them with raw
textures, uneven shapes,
knots and twists of bursting colour. We explore the
wild world of abstract art to
decorate our floors, using
centuries old techniques
that have stood the test of
time, not abiding by any
rule, except that of design
without limits.
The following power houses
with whom I’m happy to
work are best known for
creativity and bespoke
quality that transcends our
expectations, each with
their distinctive eye and
passion for design.
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BY HEN
ZEL
The new hand knotted collection Diamond Dust / Nordic Raw, deinvolved placing the rugs outside in the harsh Swedish climate to
study the effects of weather.
The result is pure artistry in the form of a unique and distinctive design.
Materials: Himalayan wool & Silk
Technique: Hand Knotted
Henzel is among the
most treasured rug
brands in the world.
The studio is located
in Gothenburg on
the southwest coast
of Sweden – an area
rich in textile design
and manufacturing
history. For over a
decade, Henzel
Studio has created
luxury handmade
rugs for both highend residential and
hospitality clients.
Fusing the avantgarde aesthetic
of Calle Henzel’s
unique artworks with
the breakthrough
technologies
in production,
an entirely new
category has been
of equal parts of
craftsmanship,
style, art, luxury and
forward-thinking
design.
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The new Reboot collection features
designs that reinterpret the antique
carpet. Ancient traditional patterns
a powerful emotional impact, creating
contemporary designs with museumquality standard, synonymous with Henzel
Art & Design Group.
All designs are utterly bespoke and
handmade to order, using centuries old
weaving techniques that make each rug
truly unique.
The collection is designed by Calle Henzel
& IInd Studio.
Materials: Himalayan wool
& Banana silk
Technique: Hand Knotted
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The best of both worlds: you can be
cool and still keep your feet warm!
With his modern designs, Jan Kath
(born 1972) is creating a completely new perspective on carpets.
Guided by a bold approach in his
work, Kath, originally from Bochum,
combines classical elements of
oriental carpets with
contemporary, minimalist design.
Kath has developed an unmistakable signature
that defines style and is one of the most important
carpet designers on the international stage today.
His concepts have earned numerous accolades,
Jan Kath focuses on the electrifying radiance of
traditional Indian dress. In doing so, he uses only
the very finest silk cloths worn by Indian women
for special celebrations. The saris are first cut into
fine strips, which are then painstakingly separated, cleaned and sorted by colour, before being
used as pile material. With bright azure blues, radiant moss greens, and bold garnet reds, it is an
uncommon vibrancy of color that makes these
carpets so unique.
The designer refers to this as “Luxury recycling”.
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including the Red Dot Award and Carpet Design Award.
More and more of his work is now appearing in museums that showcase art and design such as the Frankfurt
Museum of Applied Art, the Beijing International Design
Triennial, and Art Museum Riga Bourse, Latvia. Kath is an
autodidact.
So let’s visit part of his outstanding collection.
You could get lost in these carpets. In His “Tokio“ collection, Jan Kath
recreates the pictures of famous artistic photographer Stefan Emmelmann as pieces of textile artwork.
Carpets become art, and art becomes carpets. In this process, millions of pixels from the digital original are translated knot by knot into
silk and wool – a technique that demands the highest level of skill and
presents the craft of carpet making in a new light. Carpets in the TOKIO
collection include a phenomenal play of colours. On closer inspection,
the observer will begin to recognize night scenes from the Japanese
metropolis: high-rise buildings, illuminated advertising, bicycles, posters,
and people.
It is an entirely new dimension in the world of decorative carpets.
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it all!
The na me say s
Everything is allowed, as long as it’s
fun! Jan Kath freely combines two of
his most successful collections, Radi
and Erased Classic.
The carpets are both fascinating and
bewildering to behold. The choice of
powerful fluorescent colours such as
neon green, orange, bright purple,
and electric pink means that motifs
borrowed from Italian wall coverings and Spanish carpets that usually have a simple, noble effect are
given a completely different mode
of expression. It holds a dynamically
organic design, topped with elements
of Erased Classic that provides the
carpet with a subtle eroded look. Jan
Kath has also resurrected tassels in this
collection. Long and brightly coloured, they give these carpets an additional, slightly “hippie-esque” touch.
pattern of the carpet. The petal motifs are reminiscent of
the traditional shawls and headscarves still worn by old
Russian women in rural areas to this day.
Jan Kath combines a centuryold knotting
technique with
modern handtufting technology.
The result is a whole
new look that will
captivate the attention of everyone who sees
it. The designer calls it Tagged.
With each hand-tied knot using traditional templates found in small factories, a classic Oriental rug serves as the
foundation for this exclusive, unique
work of art. The wool is hand-spun
and dyed using natural pigments. A
specially developed antique finishing technique makes it look as if the
rug has been lying in the salon of an
old manor house for years on end. In
other words, it’s a new “old” rug. “It’s
actually perfect the way it is now, but
perfect is boring,” says Kath before
moving on to the next step and applying the rug’s signature feature – a
bright pink, golden, or vibrant blue silk.
Using a special technique, graphics,
and slogans such as “Make Rugs, not
War,” “Sex, Rugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll,”
and “This Is a Rug Revolution” appear
like graffiti on the traditional knotted
surface.
The collection is also inspired by carpets made in
Karabakh and other provinces in southern Russia
around 1900; the patterns are created using rich,
bright colors of Tibetan highland wool and Chinese
silk, making each final product a unique and emotionally powerful piece of art. These carpets dictate
the character of the space they are in and create a
focal point of interest.
I hope you will give in to temptation and sink your feet into one of these lush
carpets soon. I wish you all a jolly holiday season and a fabulous entry into
the new year!
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