JC-7 Isola carpet designed by Joe Colombo for Design Icons Collection of Amini is completely hand tufted in India, with 100% blend of New Zealand wool, height 18 mm. The wool pile is cut, hand washed and carved.
Isola echoes designer Joe Colombo’s aesthetic, in which a strong sense of irony smooths its almost-science fictional essence. This carpet reintroduces the graphic design element visible in technical drawings penned by Joe Colombo for the Hoecht stand at the Dusseldorf plastics fair in 1970. A blend of New Zealand wool varieties, hand tufted and with a finishing effect that discreetly harks back to a 1960s feel, are the distinguishing features of the carpets from the Joe Colombo Collection. This eclectic mix would have been certainly been to the liking of the brilliant designer, who was always well informed and up-to-date on manufacturing materials and technical details, at least as much as he was also sophisticated, and attentive lover of beauty. The starting point for translating this Milanese architect’s novel, futuristic vision into material, color and knots, had to be digging up some of his most recurrent graphic elements, or particularly representative projects. Thanks to the active participation of Studio Joe Colombo, still active today and headed by architect Ignazia Favata, everything has been examined and reproposed to a different scale from the original design, so as to become a piece of furniture in its own right. Bubbles and Isola are the first creations for the Joe Colombo collection, which is currently being developed further. The Isola series reintroduces the graphic design element visible in technical drawings penned by Joe Colombo for the Hoecht stand at the Dusseldorf plastics fair in 1970.The particular color combinations, together with the round shape of the carpet lend to the ensemble an effect of continuous motion and at the same time of balance. 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.