Rugberry Universe
Rugberry Universe
Homes, makers and the craft behind the rug.
The Women Who Wove the Bauhaus
The Bauhaus is remembered in steel and white walls, yet its weaving workshop, where many women were steered, made pattern from structure. Its lesson for floors has outlasted the chairs.
Apartamento Makes the Case for the Lived In Room
Since 2008 Apartamento has argued that a home is more interesting unstyled, with its piles of books and worn chairs. What that means for a rug that is part of a life rather than a set.
Wabi Sabi Begins in a Two Mat Tea Room
Before it was a styling look, wabi sabi was a hard edged argument against display, made in a tea room of two mats and in black bowls the fire finished. Why it is about accepting what the maker cann...
What Vincent Van Duysen Leaves Out
Vincent Van Duysen is filed under minimalism, but his own homes in Antwerp and Melides are full of stone, wood and linen. His work is about material warmth more than emptiness.
In Praise of a Worn Stool: Artek 2nd Cycle
Artek goes looking for its own old stools in flea markets, schools and shipyards, and sells them with their scratches intact. A rare maker that treats patina as proof of quality.
Casa Luis Barragán and Colour as a Building Material
Behind a blank wall in Tacubaya, Luis Barragán let pink, yellow and gold do the work of structure and left the green to his garden. A lesson in letting one plane of colour carry a room.
Cafe de Flore and the Room That Refused to Change
Paris reinvented itself many times around Cafe de Flore, and the room barely moved: red seating, mahogany, mirrors. Why a fixed palette and good materials let a room outlast every fashion.
Arne Jacobsen's Copenhagen, from the Museum to the Sea
Arne Jacobsen designed at every scale, from a beach to a petrol station canopy. A walk from the design museum up the coast to Klampenborg, and what his consistency means for a room.
