monochrome Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/monochrome/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:38:31 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 Kurdish felt coat https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/25/kurdish-felt-coat/ https://ounodesign.com/2009/06/25/kurdish-felt-coat/#respond Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:38:31 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=4974

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Just a few blocks up the road from my studio is the workshop of Vancouver’s Molo Design. You’ve probably seen their accordioning softseating or their softwall room dividers which are now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.

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]]> https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/15/molo-2/feed/ 1 Berber rugs, the art of a “people from between somewhere and nowhere.” https://ounodesign.com/2008/10/08/berber-rugs-the-art-of-people-from-between-somewhere-and-nowhere/ https://ounodesign.com/2008/10/08/berber-rugs-the-art-of-people-from-between-somewhere-and-nowhere/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:23:57 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=216

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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