Market: Marketscape: Flooring
Designer: Julie Richoz for La Manufacture Cogolin
Product: Bruit
Standout: The hole-punched cards that automate the complex patterns in jacquard weaving fascinate the designer, who made the raffia rug using the technique.
Designer: Ewa Bochen and Maciej Jelski of Kosmos Project
Product: Land of Shadows
Standout: With serial numbers that include the year of production, these wool-polyamide rugs are designed by algorithm generated from personal data, making each unique.
Designer: Begüm Cânâ Özgür for Stepevi
Product: Lotus
Standout: The designer’s precisely cut wool-viscose rug starts flat, and then folds, like its namesake yoga position, into a three-dimensional seat.
Designer: George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg for Warp & Weft
Product: Radix
Standout: The pattern of this indoor-outdoor polypropylene rug by the Yabu Pushelberg founders and Interior Design Hall of Fame members was sparked by angular city blocks.
Designer: Katie Deedy of Grow House Grow
Product: Dotty Hex
Standout: Handmade cement tiles inspired by the whimsical dress fashions of 1940’s Cuba are water-cured rather than fired.
Designer: Hella Jongerius for Maharam
Product: Silhouette
Standout: Jongeriuslab’s block-color wool rug comprised of shaggy
thick and thin yarns is fringed in a mélange of sympathetic tones.
Designer: Arthur Arbesser for Hem
Product: Stripe
Standout: A rule-breaking combination of horizontal and vertical stripes in New Zealand wool wows in black, anthracite, and tangerine.
Designer: Elena Caponi for Mohebban Milano
Product: Terrazze
Standout: The set designer’s photographs of Milan led to an architectural wool-cotton rug connected by zigzag stitching and embellished with fringe.
See more from the July 2018 issue of Interior Design