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CC-TAPIS / DEZEEN.COM / REGNO UNITO<br />
19 GENNAIO 2019<br />
STUDIO KLASS’ CINQUECENTO RUG COLLECTION<br />
TAKES CUES FROM RENAISSANCE ART<br />
The Cinquecen<strong>to</strong> rug collection was inspired by a series of<br />
Renaissance paintings from well-known 15th century artists<br />
The Mazzolino rug <strong>to</strong>ok inspiration from Ludovico Mazzolino’s<br />
painting, Presentazione di Gesù al tempio, which features warm,<br />
jewel-like hues<br />
The designers reduced the paintings <strong>to</strong> their essential components of shape and colour, while retaining<br />
the illusion of perspective in each piece, and used this <strong>to</strong> create original designs comprised of<br />
colour-blocked, geometric forms.<br />
“We literally started <strong>to</strong> disassemble different areas of the paintings, dividing the masterpieces in<strong>to</strong> portions<br />
and highlighting the elements that made the perspective very clear and alive,” explained the duo.<br />
The Veneziano rug, for instance, was based on a work by early 15th century painter Domenico Veneziano,<br />
the Santa Lucia de’ Magnoli altarpiece, which features olive, dusty pink and light blue hues.<br />
An artwork by Sandro Botticelli, painter of the famous Birth of Venus, also informed one of the designs<br />
– specifically his S<strong>to</strong>rie di Lucrezia painting, depicting a battle scene in shades of terracotta and brick<br />
red, framed by angular architecture.<br />
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