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An area rug takes its inspiration from the creative process.
Photos by Lucas Finlay
An ode to writer’s block and the creative process, the Draft rug (from $5,200 USD), designed by Marrimor’s Tanja Hinder and Lauren Bugliarisi, comes with its own aha moment—at first, it seems to be just an elegant design of linework and colour, but tweak your perspective and you’ll see that the patterns on the rug are shaped like crumpled, tossed-away drafts of blank pages.
First launched at Alcova, a feature of Milan Design Week, Draft began as a series of colour studies, evolving with the discovery of creating a three-dimensional pattern on a flat surface. It literally spills past the boundaries of a traditional area rug—a creative force that can’t be contained.
Project: Draft rug Designer: Marrimor Objects Location: Vancouver
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Anicka Quin is the editor-in-chief of Western Living magazine and the VP of Content for Canada Wide Media. If you've got a home design you'd like to share with Western Living, drop her a line at [email protected]
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