For Raw, designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance explores the origins of our planet: the formation of the Earth, the foundation of civilization, the tension in the tectonic plates. The collection’s focus on minerals echoes the origins of his own creative memory, like a personal tribute to his childhood on the wild coasts of Brittany in France. Raw transposes this hard material into something soft, thanks to Tai Ping’s unparalleled skills in hand-tufting.
The 11 refined rugs blend wool, silk, delicate silk, jute, lurex and Field, one of Tai Ping’s enhanced performance yarns. Duchaufour-Lawrance’s vision 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.
