‘Orpheu’ is the most recent assortment by Beni rugs designed by the Lisbon-based studio Garcé & Dimofski. Impressed by the poetic universe of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa and the colourful vitality of Portuguese structure, ‘Orpheu‘ explores the mix of creativeness and actuality via eight placing, gestural designs.
Every rug captures a singular, Fauvist-inspired perspective on notion—an artwork motion recognized for its daring use of coloration and expressive brushstrokes, prioritizing emotion over realism. Like an summary portray, Orpheu invitations you to interpret the world in your individual manner—it’s all about what you see.
The little waves of Henri Matisse – Ondine
“Ondine, our favourite design from *Orpheu*,” says the studio, captures the essence of Henri Matisse’s signature wiggling line-work with a playful squiggle that dances alongside the rug’s edge. Just like the delicate, salty hum of the ocean whispered inside a seashell, *Ondine* evokes a way of dreamy fluidity, impressed by Matisse’s curving types and the wave-like borders usually seen in Portugal’s coastal azulejos.
This design, together with the opposite seven within the assortment, speaks a language of flowing movement, mixing artwork and nature in a seamless concord. As Matisse as soon as stated, “A thimbleful of pink is redder than a bucketful,” a sentiment that displays the simplicity and stability that information the studio’s strategy. Olivier Garcé provides that their imaginative and prescient of inside design is greater than aesthetics—it’s a poetry of area, felt via concord and skilled via minimalist magnificence.
Horizonte
As so eloquently articulated by the poet Fernando Pessoa, the earth opens in sound and coloration. Providing a imaginative and prescient of likeminded and saturated actuality, Horizonte outlines the invisible types of fantasy worlds.
Fado
A synthesis of music, poetry and place, Fado presents a labyrinthine of daisy chains that illustrate the winding paths of Fernando Pessoa’s meandering thoughts like flower beds gone rogue in manicured gardens.
Echo
In items like puzzles or damaged pottery, reminiscence cracks aside as time carries on. With Echo, a motif of kaleidoscopic remembrance serves as a map of forgotten goals.
Solaris
On the good absorption of nature, the French thinker and creator Albert Camus stated that all the things was futile however the solar, our kisses, and the wild scents of the earth. With Solaris, tribute is paid to those terrestrial themes of radiance via obtuse expressions of golden sunrays and Portuguese azulejos.
Luz
Luz, an abbreviation of Nossa Senhora Da luz or ‘Our Woman of Mild,’ is a refined symphony of perspective impressed by the dance of daylight and shadow on Lisbon’s azulejos.
Cobalt
Marrying the sky and the ocean, Cobalt captures the colourful essence of blue from the ethereal charisma of the clouds to the hue’s historic significance in conventional Portuguese azulejos. Above pictured as a runner.
Vermelho
Recalling the uncommon hues of historical Portuguese azulejos and the potent feelings of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry and prose, Vermelho comprises multitudes of pink.
Combining each knotted and flat woven wool, the complicated development of the gathering requires the fingers of Beni’s grasp weavers.
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