berber Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/berber/ Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:44:51 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Berber rugs from the Beni Ouarain region https://ounodesign.com/2011/06/27/berber-rugs-beni-ouarain/ https://ounodesign.com/2011/06/27/berber-rugs-beni-ouarain/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:44:51 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=11953

The impulse in Berber rug-making to both interrupt and also loosely maintain a pattern seems unique in traditional textiles. If not unique, then it’s hard to name a tradition that equals Berber mastery of this particular tension.

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Probably everyone and his/her dog has seen this NYC loft apartment by now, and possibly also blogged about it, but this is one of those places that is so hypnotizing I can’t stop looking at it.

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Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen used these rugs regularly in their interiors, which is not surprising. Their unusual combination of minimalism and handmade detail, restraint and inventiveness works well with modernism’s aesthetics by both echoing the abstract geometry of the architecture and also counterbalancing that austerity with some softness.

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