pile Archives | Ouno Design https://ounodesign.com/tag/pile/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:23:57 +0000 en-CA hourly 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.

...read more

The post Berber rugs, the art of a “people from between somewhere and nowhere.” appeared first on Ouno Design.

]]> https://ounodesign.com/2008/10/08/berber-rugs-the-art-of-people-from-between-somewhere-and-nowhere/feed/ 2