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Roquebrune

Alquati + Corso for Carpet Edition

With its lively play of colors and Zealand wool and Tencel with the hand
geometric shapes, the Roquebrune tufted technique: the design is displayed
collection from Carpet Edition recalls the on a vertical canvas and slowly, thanks to
town on the Costa Azzurra with the same a textile gun, the yarn is inserted. Once
name, home to a wealth of architectural removed from the frame, the rug is then
works and personality of contemporary washed, finished with a cotton fabric
culture during the belle époque years. glued to the back and finally, after being
These unconventionally shaped rugs are released of excess fibres, is edged.
designed by designer Michela Alquati and Ideal in contemporary style spaces,
architect Sebastian Corso, who together from living areas to bedrooms,
are able to reinterpret traditional classic Roquebrune rugs confirm
motifs and colours into a blaze of lines the versatility of the
and forms which are as rigorous as they collections proposed by
are surprising. Starting with five main Carpet Edition. dw
masterpieces, each one characterised by
a specific design, and each being offered
in five colour variations, which in some
cases can be customised as per preference
or need.
The RB01 and RB02 series rugs were
conceived featuring interlaced geometric
forms and an irregular perimeter. The
RB03s are more linear, and further the
RB04 and RB05s strike rounded shapes
and countless nuances in the lines of the
design.
The quality and production technique
demonstrate the long artisanal tradition
of Carpet Edition: the Roquebrune
collection rugs are in fact part of the Hand
Made catalogue and are made in New

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