Composizione 57 12 carpet designed by Manlio Rho for Design Icons Collection of Amini is completely handknotted with 100% Tibetan wool (hand spun wool hand carded), hight 7 mm. Quality: 180,000 knots/sqm. The carpets are hand washed, clipped and carved. The fringes are revolved on the backside and covered with cloth.
The Composizione 57 12 and 57 10 rugs arise from the desire to produce carpets that reproduce the pure shapes and the particular palette of Manlio Rho, to replicate the warmth of its colors that are actually borrowed from the outlying Lombard countryside. The carpet becomes a canvas on which sketch graphic compositions of polygonal figures, arrayed, interlocked and intertwined, in unique color palette. Abstract lightness and graphic structure enhanced by polygonal intersecting figures and vibrant cromatic harmony.Never mind: the undeniably international relevance of Rho’s abstract art is never called into question. Indeed, although moving in the same direction as contemporaries from the German Bauhaus and Mondrian’s Dutch Neo-plasticism, he always shrewdly shunned the more extreme geometric coldness into which pure abstraction may stumble, thanks to his impressive sense of color and to the harmony of forms. But the greatest satisfaction for Amini is to have been able to replay the whole gamut of Rho’s palette: the warmth – indeed, an almost silken touch – of colors that are actually borrowed from the outlying Lombard countryside. One has to stress that this operation focusing on the revival of Rho’s work would not have been possible without the heartfelt, comprehensive assistance of the artist’s heirs. The Design Icons collection represented by Masters. While different with regard to generation, training, experience, and legacy, what unites them is a self-same project: a kind of unfettered, personal quest, indeed, a search for the discovery and development of a dynamic and multifaceted modernity. Masters without limiting their investigation, they have dabbled with all kinds of artistic and technical forms – painting, architecture, design, applied arts, publishing, film and photography.