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Slade Rug
British designer Christopher Farr blends geometric sophistication and modernist notions of beauty with ancient rug weaving techniques in his five DWR-only rugs. The result is a series of elegant pieces that have the power of abstract canvases for the floor. Inspired by such painters as Mark Rothko and Ellsworth Kelly, Farr approaches the floor as the fifth wall to create omnidirectional fields of vivid color and harmonious balance that can enlarge the feeling of a room or bring balance and focus to the elements of space. Slade, named for the Slade School of Fine Art, provides a harmonious three-paneled field of warm and cool tones intersected by an arresting red stripe, and is eminently suitable for domestic or commercial environments. All Farr's designs are hand spun and handtufted of fine wool and manually dyed in small batches to create rich tonal nuances in the strands. Each piece is guaranteed to grow more beautiful with time as the wool's natural lanolin emerges and invigorates the surface, creating enhanced luster over the years. Each rug is signed by the designer and numbered. Made in India.
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Slade Rug
$3,600.00
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W 8' H 10' D .75"
Materials:
100% Wool.
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Christopher Farr
Educated at the Slade School in England and trained in textiles in villages in Peru and Turkey, Christopher Farr (born 1953) has made his mark as one of today’s preeminent rug designers. As a young abstract painter in 1975, he won a Boise Traveling Fellowship to Peru. It was this trip that soon sealed the direction of his artistic life, because there Farr encountered pre-Columbian textiles for the first time and was seized by the magnetism and utility of the 3,000-year-old work. He began to search for ways to marry his love of abstraction to the ancient craft of...
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