As part of the international design festival Design Parade 7, an eclectic selection of designer rugs has been collected in Rugs Parade, an exhibition curated by Jean-Pierre Blanc, Magalie Guérin and Alice Martina. Designer Constance Guisset has designed the set for the exhibition, which is on display at Villa Noailles' St. Bernard squash room through 30 September. The exhibition includes works by Matali Crasset, the Campana brothers, Noe Duchaufour Lawrance and the Bouroullec brothers, and allows a poetic reflection on this design typology, as can be seen by design and fashion critic Mathieu Buard's statement below.
The rug and the cavern
What is the nature of rugs?
Some objects function like obvious facts for a
civilisation, consequently they are embodied
within the guise of myths and prime objects.
Thus, the natural origin of things is often related
through archetypal narratives. Let us start with
caves, which one may think of as having been the
ideal location for the first established homes.
Therefore, is it not possible that the inhabitants
of these caves, having decided to settle and
with their own "comfort" in mind, may well have
furnished the cold, damp floor upon which they
slept with rugs. A different narrative leads us
to consider the origin of an architecture which
adopts the natural roof of the forest, under the
trees, as is depicted on the frontispiece of Marc-
Antoine Laugier's Essay on Architecture. Here,
the pattern of a carpet of leaves may well be the
source for the motifs which cover these comfortable
surfaces.
Rugs Parade
From Matali Crasset to the Campana brothers, an eclectic selection of designer rugs is on display at Villa Noailles as part of international design festival Design Parade 7.
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- 11 July 2012
- Hyères
From the origins of architecture, in caves, rugs
feature as prime objects.
And from the origins of architecture within forests,
the patterns of the forest feature within
rugs.
If one takes the presence of rugs within our interiors
seriously, then what are their values? From
a modern comfort, to a rationale of horizontality
which represents a platform for community, the
questions which rugs provide are open, permanent,
and profoundly human. Mathieu Buard, design and fashion critic
Through 30 September
Rugs Parade
Villa Noailles, Hyères