Nature, abstraction, fresh outlooks: a glimpse of what’s in store for rugs and carpets at “supersalone”

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Campiture by Elisa Ossino for Amini

Sensitive interpreters of our taste in domestic living, rugs and carpets are taking on the themes driving today’s world. From the input of women to the resilience of the natural world.

A visual stimulus to accentuate the pleasure of being back home. That’s not all: if rugs have been an integral part of our lives for millennia – representing the same concept and structure of home as for nomadic peoples – it’s also because this object, with its ancient soul, continues to express all its modernity today, soothing our bodies with the feelings that arise from contact with its material - [perhaps we no longer need them at a time of increasing digitisation?] – and telling stories that bring inspiration and motivation for the future.

The novelties presented at “supersalone” in the rug and carpet sector perfectly embody this dual ability to speak of an ancestral past yet interface with contemporary life. This applies to cc-tapis (Pav 02, Stand H 10), the Italian brand with a French heart and Nepalese manufacturing, which celebrates its tenth anniversary this year with three new extremely inspired collections. With the first of these, Venus Power, Patricia Urquiola has launched her rug/manifesto, an invitation to rediscover feminine qualities and potential in terms of energy and empathy. Then there are the Muller Van Severen duo with Ombra, a return to three dimensional optical effects, and the Italian artist Edoardo Piemattei, whose Dagallà – a name inspired by the Arab “dag allah,” “saved by God” – speaks of the resilience of the saponaria plants that spring up in the landscape around Etna – a paen to life and its capacity for regeneration.

Illulian (Pav 01, Stand D 04) was also inspired by nature; the new rugs in its collection - The Cloud by Studio Fuksas and Veneer by Arik Levi – express the wealth of natural microcosms, with intriguing abstract patterns inspired equally by the airy nature of the sky and by the overlapping layers of the land.

Flamboyant is also intricate and eye-catching; the German brand Jan Kath (Pav 02, Stand O 12) is inspired by the Baroque period, and its Savonnerie Surprise evokes the luxuriant botanical drawings found on the walls of Parisian homes of the 17th century and artisan objects. The use of plants and flowers is not citationist, however, but integrates and features flat colours and iridescent details, turning the rug into an actual mental space in which different impressions and emotions combine.

The brand Amini (Pav 02, Stand J 24) is premiering two collections at “supersalone.” The first, signed by Elisa Ossino, is called Campiture and is a formal exercise centred on the lightness and subtraction of the geometric composition formed by the intersecting lines. The second, RD Gris, was designed by Rodolfo Dordoni as a tribute to the Spanish painter Juan Gris, whose Cubist spirit plays out through a careful study of the material impact of the artist’s favoured palette of colours.