To have a natural, handwoven mohair blend rug underfoot is like walking on a cloud. Now imagine that rug was cloud-shaped… wouldn’t that make you feel you could shift gear and daydream, or lie down and float away from the pressures of your day?
Shapes are one of the seven elements of art. An enclosed space defined by a boundary, most often precise, with perfect edges and consistent curves. Uncompromising and exact – think squares, rectangles and circles – the expected shape of a rug.
More and more often though, we are being asked to design and weave rugs in free-form, organic shapes. They lack the stiffness and structure of the geometric family and instead find familiarity with objects in nature – clouds, waves, seed pods and water-tumbled stones. The thing with organic shapes is that they generally remain nameless, not bound to a commonly associated form. Unbound and unpredictable, flexible and flowing. Free.
Maybe it’s a hankering for the freedom of nature and the wilderness that is inspiring a pull towards the organic modern design style. Perhaps we are growing tired of the limited, predefined boundaries and the constant striving for perfectionism that modern living can impose? We live bound to our devices; digital worlds housed inside regular shapes. We feel the need to venture out of these parameters and reconnect with our own creative ideas and thoughts. We seek opportunities to harmonise with nature, and so we create indoor spaces that blur the lines with the outdoors, welcoming nature in.
We see this nod to nature in the indoor plant revolution, the popularity of natural fibres and the use of curved irregular lines in furniture design too. Curvilinear sofas and furniture break up the stringent quality of any space and when you’ve embraced curved lines in your furniture it feels only – well, natural – to reflect these forms on your floors. A curvy armchair on an organic rug is as easy together as a rounded pebble on a riverbed.
We asked Petra from the talented team at Bergman & Mar Interior Design for her insights into using organic design elements in a natural home space.
Make use of natural fibres, plants, textures and items that are handmade and crafted with authenticity. And remember to seek out hand drawn lines and organic shapes to bring softness and natural calm into your space.
A custom Coral + Hive rug can lay the perfect natural canvas from which you can let your mind wander away from the prescribed. Artfully designed and customised into any free flowing shape, made using ethically sourced wool shaun from sheep who grazed freely under the African sun and then spun and lovingly hand woven on large looms by singing women, our rugs breathe natural life into any space they inhabit.
Get in touch with us and we will co-create and customise the natural base of your home with something perfectly imperfect from Coral + Hive.
“My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature”
Monet