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148 Marketplace: Reviews SUMMER 0 09 knotted rugs by A* alittlemore Studio, which look at pollution in the Punjabi landscape (see Collections). Nearby, the ‘Ithra, Routes to Roots’ display featured the weavings of Maryam AlHomaid, whose work I have seen much of in Milan, London and Doha. No trip to Milan should be without a visit to Rossana Orlandi. There, Liz Collins had an immersive installation of her new designs with Sunbrella. Using the company’s by-products she made her own set of covetable artefacts. The room was filled ceiling to floor in textile o cut wallpaper, textiles, pillows, bags and throws. In a room full of tactility and softness it was hard not to overstay your welcome. In another room on site, Li Edelkoort had collaborated with Argentinian rug brand El Espartano to create a collection called Garden, using designs by artist Sergio Machado (see Collections). Across town, near Duomo, cc-tapis’s Piazza Santo Stefano showroom was dedicated to English designer Faye Toogood, who showed o softness and tactility in the Rude rug collection (see Collections) and the Cosmic furniture colllection for Tacchini. In addition, the cc-tapis headquarters hosted the BLUESTOCKING SALON, a installation of new Kaleidoscopic rugs and chairs by Bethan Laura 08 Celebration, Maryam Al-Homaid, at ‘Routes to Roots’ 09 Installation by Liz Collins and Sunbrella at Rossana Orlandi 10 Mexican Boudoir collection, Florence Bourel 11 Rugs by Edelgrund showing at Menu 1 10 08 11 Wood as part of her MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission. At new event Labò Cultural Project, south of Milan’s centre, Florence Bourel showed o her Mexican Boudoir collection including hand-tufted rugs in New-Zealand wool. Also on display was the Jardins collection by édition 1.6.9 which was creatively hung in the centre of one space, not flat on the walls or floor. Materiality and texture are big news in rugs. In line with this, Alberto Levi exhibited a beautiful new collection of jute rugs designed by Alessandro Pasinelli (see Collections), while Kristiina Lassus had some great new flatwoven designs made in Pakistan and India. I may not have managed to see everything but this was plenty! LU

01 01 04 I S SUE Marketplace: Reviews 149 01 Surf, Sand, Pebbles, Brian Orner x Art Interpreted 02 Forest textile sculptures by Elodie Blanchard 03 Which(?)craft No 1, Johanna Ulfsak 04 Gale, mink, Terra collection, Yabu Pushelberg x Warp & Weft 03 03 l i a _ o c i c . .@ l l g r o u p r o c k w e @ g r o u p l l i t e c t : R o c k w e r c h . A l i c e _ g a o a l i c e G a o @ P h o t o: A 02 Design fairs ICFF AND NYXDESIGN 18–20 May 2024 Javits Center, NYC www.icff.com Rugs are always the best part of a fair and, at ICFF 2024, this was surely a matter of fact! To begin with, Warp & Weft’s beautiful new hand-knotted collection, Terra, designed by architecture studio Yabu Pushelberg, received the ICFF Editors Award for ‘Flooring & Rugs’. The five calming wool and silk rugs are deserving winners. Of the numerous other rug companies on show, Art Interpreted was a new face. The New Yorkbased, art-led brand showed some great hand-knotted designs including Surf, Sand, Pebbles, by Brian Orner. Hadi Sattari of the brand commented: ‘We gained many new contacts and serious prospects for business-to-business opportunities, which is a newer channel for us. Many of the talks were about sustainability, and it’s always good to remember that handmade, wool rugs are inherently more sustainable than many products.’ Hear-hear! Big design shows can easily feel too corporate and staid, but ICFF brought in many elements to liven up the brand mix—and with rugs and textiles it meant a few smaller names could be discovered at the Javits. The Wanted Look Book, presented with media partner Dezeen, was home to young designer Tomma Bloom (see Origins) who has just collaborated on a rug collection with TTW (Tuft the World). In its second iteration, The Crossroads section directed by David Rockwell and Rockwell Group focused on sustainability in US design and included Elodie Blanchard’s ingenious textile tree sculptures. Outside the Javits, NYXdesign provided a lot of fun, none more so than Johanna Ulfsak’s Which(?) craft rug collection showing as part of the Estonian UPMADE exhibition at Lafayette gallery in SoHo.

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knotted rugs by A* alittlemore Studio, which look at pollution in the Punjabi landscape (see Collections). Nearby, the ‘Ithra, Routes to Roots’ display featured the weavings of Maryam AlHomaid, whose work I have seen much of in Milan, London and Doha.

No trip to Milan should be without a visit to Rossana Orlandi. There, Liz Collins had an immersive installation of her new designs with Sunbrella. Using the company’s by-products she made her own set of covetable artefacts. The room was filled ceiling to floor in textile o cut wallpaper, textiles, pillows, bags and throws. In a room full of tactility and softness it was hard not to overstay your welcome.

In another room on site, Li Edelkoort had collaborated with Argentinian rug brand El Espartano to create a collection called Garden, using designs by artist Sergio Machado (see Collections).

Across town, near Duomo, cc-tapis’s Piazza Santo Stefano showroom was dedicated to English designer Faye Toogood, who showed o softness and tactility in the Rude rug collection (see Collections) and the Cosmic furniture colllection for Tacchini. In addition, the cc-tapis headquarters hosted the BLUESTOCKING SALON, a installation of new Kaleidoscopic rugs and chairs by Bethan Laura

08 Celebration, Maryam Al-Homaid, at ‘Routes to Roots’ 09 Installation by Liz Collins and Sunbrella at Rossana Orlandi 10 Mexican Boudoir collection, Florence Bourel 11 Rugs by Edelgrund showing at Menu 1

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Wood as part of her MECCA X NGV Women in Design Commission.

At new event Labò Cultural Project, south of Milan’s centre, Florence Bourel showed o her Mexican Boudoir collection including hand-tufted rugs in New-Zealand wool. Also on display was the Jardins collection by édition 1.6.9 which was creatively hung in the centre of one space, not flat on the walls or floor.

Materiality and texture are big news in rugs. In line with this, Alberto Levi exhibited a beautiful new collection of jute rugs designed by Alessandro Pasinelli (see Collections), while Kristiina Lassus had some great new flatwoven designs made in Pakistan and India.

I may not have managed to see everything but this was plenty! LU

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