Noé Duchaufour Lawrance Designs First Rug Collection, Raw, for Tai Ping
Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance announces his first collaboration with Tai Ping, the world renowned manufacturer of made-to-order rugs. The collection, Raw, is comprised of five main designs which will be presented at Tai Ping’s first Milan showroom during Salone del Mobile 2019.
For Raw, designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance chose to explore the origins of our planet; the formation of the earth, the foundation of civilization, the tension in the tectonic plates. This mineral collection also echoes the origins of his own creative memory, like a personal tribute to his childhood on the wild coasts of Brittany.
The eleven refined rugs blend wool, silk, delicate silk, jute, lurex and Field, one of Tai Ping’s enhanced synthetic yarns. The translation of conception to material object conjured the drawings’ modeled volumes without losing their subtlety, so that the rugs seem carved, like a found piece of flint. “Tai Ping found the right balance to keep the drawing’s spirit. The rug exists as an object of its own. This interpretation by Tai Ping’s artisans demonstrates extraordinary craftsmanship. Each sample was enhanced in a way I could not have anticipated,” Duchaufour-Lawrance recalls.
Duchaufour-Lawrance’s vision here is not just a picture on the floor, but an invitation to engage with nature’s most primal materials in the context of our lived spaces. Shaped silhouettes that are soft to the touch showcase Tai Ping’s superior talents as an interpreter of ideas into form.