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HELLO
WINTER

Carpet Edition
welcomes summer

with a new
collection - Foliage

Design: Studio Romani

Saccani Architetti Associati

To bring ‘soft carpets of leaves’ inside
“inspired by the changing colors of
the Seasons” is how architects Michele Leaves are the inspiration of the designs, The central axis, like a leaf’s median
Romani and Mauro Saccani describe their from botanical cataloguing to their vein, becomes a border for two different
vision when designing Foliage, the new actual form. Stylised profiles of different methods of workmanship, which is
collection produced by Carpet Edition. leaf varieties trace the contours of the necessary to give two opposing textures.
Four rugs make up the product line, rugs, different from each other in their The right side is pile in New Zealand
each dedicated to one season of the year, margins, geometry, sizes and colours. The wool, while the left side is bouclé: the
and represents the debut of Romani latter, selected with care and attention, contrast between the softness of one and
Saccani Architects in the area of textile evoke the different shades and hues that the consistency of the other, knowingly
design. Their many years of experience in slowly, with the changing of the Seasons, designed and produced, is a fundamental
designing spaces and interior accessories transform the vegetation. To launch the detail to transmit the same tactile
have always been guided by the need to new Foliage collection, the first rug that experience as when you touch a leaf,
transmit a sense of authenticity in the Carpet Edition has selected to present is smooth on the top and rough or rippled
simplest things, where simplicity is not Summer, a lively and bright homage to on the back.
meant to be something trivial, but the summer, defined by the architects as a With the new collection Foliage,
refusal of any excess and the capacity “sophisticated stratification of exotic and Carpet Edition and the architects Romani
to elicit emotion. Thus, collaborating tropical varieties on a sunny and bright and Saccani have succeeded in offering
with Carpet Edition, a collection has colour scale, suspended between the sky a ‘décor & trend’ interpretation of the
been created which intertwines fantasy and the sea” emotions associated with the changing
and concreteness, and does not sacrifice The profile of the rug is reminiscent seasons. The story will continue with
a fresh, young ‘pop’ spirit, even in the of the typical leaves found in lush virgin three other rugs respectively dedicated to
quality of the fibres and craftsmanship. forests, and its saturated and contrasting autumn, winter and spring. dw
colours recall the warm climate of
summer. www.carpetedition.com

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