finely crafted hand-knotted rugs.

The school where I studied in Florence did not believe in specialization. We moved between urban design and philosophy, anthropology and product design, furniture and art, with the idea that a designer produces meaningful work only when he understands many aspects of daily life. There was a joke among us: the architect knows so little about so many things that he ends up knowing nothing about everything, while the engineer knows so much about one single thing that he ends up knowing everything about nothing.

I still work this way. The studio moves between branding and spatial design, environments and objects. I need the links between disciplines. I need to jump from one to another, to carry ideas across, because this is the only way I know how to make new work.The rugs came from that same place. Years ago, a man from Nepal stopped by the office and asked me to design one. I said yes partly because of him, partly because of my grandmother, who sold Persian rugs in Palermo when I was a child. Both things were already in me somewhere.

Each rug starts as a drawing I make on paper. No AI, no assistants, no outside input. Each one is a diagram of my own thoughts, a vision of a possible otherworld drawn by hand.

People often assume these rugs belong in a child's room. That reading misses the point entirely. These are rugs for adults, or at least for the adults who have not lost the ability to dream.A rug can change the entire mood of a room. It pulls the space toward it. These can drag you in. In a real sense, they are the room.
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Hand-Knotted in Wool and Silk, Made to Order
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Each rug is hand-knotted in Nepal at 100 or 150 knots per square inch, depending on the complexity of the design. Some are pure wool; others combine wool and silk where the drawing calls for it. The difference shows in the weight, in the way light moves across the surface, and in how the piece ages.

The collection holds around 130 designs, all open editions. The exception is the Non-Flying Carpet, which is limited. Most designs can be produced in the size a specific space requires.

Commissioned work is a significant part of what happens here. Colors, dimensions, entirely new designs, adjustments to existing ones — all of it is possible. If there is a space in mind, we can design toward it.

Rugs are priced at approximately $160 per square foot. Production runs between six and twelve weeks depending on size.

To order, discuss a commission, or ask anything about the work, get in touch.