WL Design 25

WL Design 25 Winners 2025: Paper Chase

An area rug takes its inspiration from the creative process.

By Anicka Quin /
Lucas Finlay

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

Meet all of the 2025 WL Design 25 winners here.

Anicka Quin

Anicka Quin

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]