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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 Veneziano rug was based on a work by Domenico Veneziano,<br />
the Santa Lucia de’ Magnoli altarpiece<br />
The Nastagio rug takes its design cues from an artwork by<br />
Sandro Botticelli, titled S<strong>to</strong>rie di Lucrezia<br />
“We asked ourselves, why, after 500 years, these paintings made up of shapes, forms and colours<br />
still have an amazing power over us? How can they still work considering the nature of contemporary<br />
aesthetics?” they continued.<br />
“It was clear enough that the use of perspective was at the centre of the Renaissance artists’ research,”<br />
they continued. “We wanted <strong>to</strong> bring these elements in<strong>to</strong> contemporary design.”<br />
Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola also adopted an illusory effect with her Rotazioni and Visioni rug<br />
collection, which uses block colours and black outlines <strong>to</strong> create geometric patterns, in a bid <strong>to</strong> create<br />
a false sense of depth by tricking the eye.<br />
Pho<strong>to</strong>graphy is by Beppe Branca<strong>to</strong>.<br />
PRESS CLIPPINGS P. 52
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