The Rugier Journal
Bhadohi
What you understand better when you go there is that Bhadohi is not a production center. It is a world unto itself, where carpet making is not just one industry...
Bhadohi
What you understand better when you go there is that Bhadohi is not a production center. It is a world unto itself, where carpet making is not just one industry...
Memphis saved me from beige.
At art school, I had a teacher who told me Miami Vice was a shitty kitsch reference. It was said with the tone of someone who thinks they're doing you...
Memphis saved me from beige.
At art school, I had a teacher who told me Miami Vice was a shitty kitsch reference. It was said with the tone of someone who thinks they're doing you...
The beige carpet is a decision. Not a lack of decision.
There's a widespread idea that choosing a neutral rug is a non-choice. A way to keep options open, to not offend anyone, to ensure it will go with anything. Beige...
The beige carpet is a decision. Not a lack of decision.
There's a widespread idea that choosing a neutral rug is a non-choice. A way to keep options open, to not offend anyone, to ensure it will go with anything. Beige...
What size rug for a living room?
Basic rule: a rug should create a common territory. In a classic living room (sofa + armchairs + coffee table), the rug should ideally extend under the front legs of...
What size rug for a living room?
Basic rule: a rug should create a common territory. In a classic living room (sofa + armchairs + coffee table), the rug should ideally extend under the front legs of...
Brazilian Modernism: How the Curve Became a Structure
There's a quote from Oscar Niemeyer in his memoirs that sums it all up: "I don't like straight lines. I am attracted to curves that spread freely and sensually. These...
Brazilian Modernism: How the Curve Became a Structure
There's a quote from Oscar Niemeyer in his memoirs that sums it all up: "I don't like straight lines. I am attracted to curves that spread freely and sensually. These...
De Stijl, the conviction that geometry can do anything
In 1917, in the Netherlands, a neutral country in the middle of a Europe at war, a group of artists and architects decided that the post-war world would have to...
De Stijl, the conviction that geometry can do anything
In 1917, in the Netherlands, a neutral country in the middle of a Europe at war, a group of artists and architects decided that the post-war world would have to...