The classical Persian rug vocabulary was codified across the long Safavid and Qajar centuries in workshops from Tabriz to Kerman, the medallion and arabesque patterns that the European interior absorbed beginning in the seventeenth century. The neutral reading in this piece sits in the contemporary end of that arc.

The piece comes out of a contemporary studio practice that draws on the long workshop conversation between Turkish and Indian rug design and the post-war Scandinavian and central-European abstraction that pulled this vocabulary into the modernist interior. The geometry is deliberately asymmetric so the rug does not impose a fixed orientation on the room. Either long edge can face the seating, either short edge can face the entrance, and the green reads consistently in all four orientations.

The fibre

Heat-set polypropylene. The yarn carries colour set by temperature rather than by surface dye, the saturation locked at the molecular level so direct sunlight does not bleach the field the way pigment-printed fibre fades. Spilled wine, juice, oil, or coffee lift with a damp cloth before they set. The pile holds shape under furniture without crushing. The piece is built to absorb the kinds of incidents a hand-knotted rug cannot, in the rooms a hand-knotted rug should not be put. The design language carries through; the maintenance demands do not.

The composition

The composition reads in green with a secondary movement in tonal contrast. The pattern is built to give a room a considered ground without claiming ownership of it, and the synthetic fibre means the saturation does not lift over years of direct sun the way a wool pile gradually does.

The piece in a room

5'3" × 7'10" (160 × 239 cm) works in a living room with sectional seating, in a bedroom under a king bed, in a study with a large desk, or in an open kitchen where moisture and traffic would damage a wool piece. The green pulls cleanly through both daylight and lamplight.

Care

Vacuum weekly. Spot clean with mild detergent on a clean cloth. Machine wash on a cold 30°C cycle if a spill resists spot cleaning, then air dry flat. No professional cleaning required at any point in the working life of the rug.

Reference

• Medium: heat-set polypropylene, jacquard-woven
• Dimensions: 5'3" × 7'10" (160 × 239 cm)
• Density: ~720000 points per square metre
• Pile: 13 mm
• Backing: woven polypropylene
• Origin: Turkey

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