DecoDe, design Pino Scaglione, De Castelli
There’s more. Autumn triggers a desire not just for comfort, rugs, covers and cushions, but also for soft, cosy coverings and fabrics, and we can’t get enough of them! Of them all, rugs are undoubtedly the greatest contemporary living rediscovery, created with a combination of ancient processes and innovative weaving techniques, with graphics and patterns drawn from the art world or from nature. Colour is the real star here: ton sur ton in matching shades or contrasting plays of colour characterise the extended surfaces like real works of art. The Mindscape collection by Mae Engelgeer for cc-Tapis explores the space and the architecture, drawing the spectator into a journey through different spaces, unique abstract yet poetic worlds, which coexist on the same surface. It’s also a riot of colour and pattern, a positive stimulus for the senses: the sand, camel, brick, sage green, mid-blue and chypre of the Mimic rug transport us to a welcoming and reassuring environment, in which the cocoon effect is guaranteed.
Mimic, design Mae Engelgeer, cc-tapis
The September rug, part of India Mahadavi’s Garden of Eden collection for Golran, is the quintessence of lyrical autumn. The designer has conjured up a pattern of regular leaves in warm shades of orange, burgundy, brick and purple, which seem to blow about with the wind and, by breaking down the barriers of shape and adding movement, has come up with two different versions: the first is more classical, with its rectangular shape, central decoration, wide borders and symbolic zigzag pattern; the second features a more abstract pattern, reminiscent of a garden springing up, making for an irregular-shaped rug that will adapt to and furnish less conventional spaces.
September, design India Mahadavi, Golran - Photo by Daniele De Carolis
Equally charismatic and creative is the new Colourdisc collection of vases – a fruit bowl and a cylindrical flower vase –produced by Venini for Cassina and designed by Bethan Laura Wood. The British artist and designer, who loves mixing shades, materials, shapes and light creatively, has designed a series of discs and diamonds in Murano glass, cast in metal moulds and placed around a brass volume to set up a graphic dialogue between the contents and the vase itself. An optional amber or horizon blue blown glass vase can be placed inside the structure. Each decorative glass shape combines two spots of colour from the Venini Archive that, when overlapped, create a third colour. When the sun shines onto the discs, the colours are reflected onto the vases, creating a warm, autumnal-hued, kaleidoscopic effect.
