Shakespeare rugs

Celebrating Shakespeare’s death anniversary 400 years ago, interior designer Helen Hooper and Mineheart rugs transposed some of his celebrated monologues.

Helen Hooper, A Celebration of the Bard, Mineheart rugs, 2016

Mineheart has collaborated with interior designer Helen Hooper to create a collection of new rugs inspired by Shakespearian quotations. Originally designed by for the interior scheme of the Mercure hotel in Leicester, Mineheart is adding them to its collection this year, which is the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death 400 years ago in 1416.

Two of the designs are linked to Richard III, the king who in August 1485 was killed at the Battle of Bosworth and was buried at a Friary in Leicester until August 2012 when an archeological dig discovered his remains underneath a car park and he was reinterred in Leicester Cathedral.

Helen has chosen extracts from two well known monologues from Shakespeare’s Richard III, including parts of the famous Now is the winter of our discontent speech, to be woven into the rugs which both have a deep purple background. The third rug in the collection is a twist on the Mineheart’s Urban Concrete Damask pattern which is reworked in pale purple.

A Celebration of the Bard
Designer: Helen Hooper
Production: Mineheart rugs
Year: 2016

Shakespeare rugs

Celebrating Shakespeare’s death anniversary 400 years ago, interior designer Helen Hooper and Mineheart rugs transposed some of his celebrated monologues.

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