The Rugier Journal
Rugs and Optical Illusion: The Legacy of Op Art
1960s Op Art showed that a flat surface can vibrate. Vasarely, Riley, moiré and carving: what the contemporary rug has taken from it.
Rugs and Optical Illusion: The Legacy of Op Art
1960s Op Art showed that a flat surface can vibrate. Vasarely, Riley, moiré and carving: what the contemporary rug has taken from it.
What is a hand-tufted rug?
A hand-tufted rug is made with a tufting gun, in New Zealand wool, in workshops such as those of Bhadohi. How it is made, carving, care, and how it differs...
What is a hand-tufted rug?
A hand-tufted rug is made with a tufting gun, in New Zealand wool, in workshops such as those of Bhadohi. How it is made, carving, care, and how it differs...
Why grand hotels have geometric rugs.
Foot traffic, wear, acoustics, longevity: repeated geometry answers each of the constraints of a palace hotel lobby, and its lesson holds for any interior.
Why grand hotels have geometric rugs.
Foot traffic, wear, acoustics, longevity: repeated geometry answers each of the constraints of a palace hotel lobby, and its lesson holds for any interior.
Moiré effect. An enduring disturbance.
Born of an interference between two grids, moiré passed through silk, printing and Op Art before finding an ideal ground in tufted pile.
Moiré effect. An enduring disturbance.
Born of an interference between two grids, moiré passed through silk, printing and Op Art before finding an ideal ground in tufted pile.
What the floors of Venetian palaces have always known how to do
From Venetian pavements to the canvases of Vasarely, the Optical Palazzo collection carries forward the same understanding of geometry: making a still floor move.
What the floors of Venetian palaces have always known how to do
From Venetian pavements to the canvases of Vasarely, the Optical Palazzo collection carries forward the same understanding of geometry: making a still floor move.
Tufting and carving: what gives a rug its character
Tufting sets the wool in stitch by stitch, then carving sculpts it with shears along the motif: the two gestures that give a Rugier rug its relief.
Tufting and carving: what gives a rug its character
Tufting sets the wool in stitch by stitch, then carving sculpts it with shears along the motif: the two gestures that give a Rugier rug its relief.