Author’s design of carpets and kovrolina from antrona
The XX-th century has reversed human life, environment of its dwelling, habitual things. The omnipotent industry has filled in the world with the mass items unified and impersonal. There was an obvious discrepancy between aesthetic submissions of the mass consumer (brought up on "house" items of handicraft workshops) and that production which was stamped by army of iron cars. This discrepancy was accurately caughtby artists and have seen in it new, practically boundless possibilities for the appendix of the forces. Has begun «estetizatsiya» quantity production.
The architect and the artist of an English modernist style Charles Vojzi is taken by working out of design of a fabric and wall-paper. Luis Tiffani – the American painter and the virtuoso of colour art glass – began one of the first to make in the USA lamps nakalivaniya. Its desk lamps with vitrazhnyimi lamp shades become so popular, that any lamps executed in this style, name «lamps Tiffani». Marseilles Broyer creates the first chair from steel tubes and a canvas. For us the thing habitual and ordinary, and to begin with 30 it was an ingenious find. The model has appeared so universal, that has easily gone through million duplicating. Pierre Karden (yes-yes, that) creates design of a ceramic tile.
Artists with interest experiment new materials. Tree habitual in furniture production and a skin are replaced with metal and plastic. Silver and a bone in services are superseded by the chromeplated copper and plastic. And on change to a traditional wool, silk and a clap in kovrotkachestve the synthetic thread comes.
At sources
Artist Edmund Pikar, the founder of the journal "Modern art".
kovrolin and the model
To the synthetics invention kovrotkachestvo was the isolated and closed area of art with the traditions and rigidly regulated laws. Happened, that artists drew sketches for carpets, but the life subject, and an expensive work of art was as a result received not. Carpets were the luxury accessible to few lucky persons. But here in 1938 company "Dupont" has invented a synthetic fibre – nylon, and in the carpet industry there was a present revolution. Actually, to tell the truth, to the invention of a synthetic fibre of the carpet industry as that also was not. So, individual weaving mills which could not satisfy mass demand.
Prospects at new branch of production were truly fantastic. First, have started to manufacture a rolled carpet cloth (instead of carpets-small squares) so, began possible to cover with it space of any size. And secondly, for artists the new, not run in sphere of creativity has opened.
Known designers have started to work practically with any subject of surrounding conditions, whether it be furniture, door handles or the sanitary technician. And the imenitee the artist, the more known firm over which design of production it works. Couturier Kenzo has developed design of a ceramic tile of firm «Villeroy and Boch», Phillip Stark has created a collection sanitary technicians for firm "Duravit". The firm «Runtal Italia» began to manufacture heaters with drawings Fornazetti. Today this svoebraznyiy the club "haute couture" replenishes all with new and new participants. In increasing frequency with reference to subjects of an interior and materials for processing loud surnames sound.
Antron in hands of designers
The schedule and illustrator Milton Glazer.
Milton Glazer – one of the famous schedules-conceptualists, the author of illustrations of set of books and journal concepts. The design kovrolina at Glazer is received very expressional, completely not typical for carpet cover. The graphic rhythm, the contrast sated colours, the accurate logic – all it has so powerful graphic force, that kovrolin simply "blows up" at you underfoot, riveting attention. Only very strong creative person can get on with such "individualist".
Sol LeVit – the artist and the sculptor, the representative of minimalist art. Even in design of carpet cover finds reflexion its main principle: «In my products there is a logic who allows each to create an own myth». Indeed actually. Design kovrolina at LeVita delicate, only a certain hint behind which the chain of associations begins, «own myth». Drawing does not suppress and does not impose, but, on the other hand, sounds distinctly enough not to be dissolved and to be lost in an interior.
Arata Isozaki – the architect, the bright representative of the Japanese postmodernism. In the projects he tries to connect the western traditions to east simplicity. It is accurately traced in its architectural objects (a modern art Museum in Los Angeles, sports complexes for Olympic games in Barcelona). It is very interesting to observe this merge in design of floor cover. The European colour scale associating with a business suit, an upholstery of showroom of the smart car or office of the serious company. Design – simple and at the same time having very big internal force. The unique figure taken for a basis, – a small square, is scattered on a monophonic field at first sight absolutely chaotically. But having got accustomed, you start to catch logic and sense, melteshenie square confetti finds a rhythm and starts to "sound". A minimum of graphic means for unlimited quantity of treatments.
It is architecture of flat forms
Dig Liechtenstein – the artist, the largest master of pop art after well-known Klausa Oldenburga and Andy Warhol. At the heart of its design – contrast. Contrast of colour and contrast of forms. As the result – «visual provocation», and elements more than "expects" colour to see an eye.
Osvald Ungers – the architect, one of the most successful representatives of the German vanguard architecture. In its design dominants are the cube, a circle and repetition of squares. The design kovrolina Ungersa is an architecture of flat forms. It has beaten traditional drawings of an old classical parquet for creation of effect of a volume mosaic. The forms familiar to us on palace parquets, repeat in multi-coloured drawings of "a fluffy floor». Kovrolin, hitherto having two measurements – length and width, from easy hand Ungersa has acquired also the third measurement – depth. Kovrolin has received volume.
Artists and high technologies
Alberto Honey, the Italian designer.
On walls, but also on a floor
It is far not the complete list of the artists working with kovrolinom. Designers like to try the forces in new areas, especially if there is a possibility to co-operate with such large company, as "Dupont", with its well-known kovrolinom from antrona. With things of such class to work pleasantly and prestigiously. This quality which corresponds to the status of the artist. What sense to do design of floor cover which can serve all some months? And after all and it is received with kovrolinom from a bad quality fibre. But known artists do not work with substitutes and fakes.
On the other hand, production kovrolina from antrona is so hi-tech, that can realise any design idea exactly. The artist can create, about what not musing, knowing, that as a result all it will find a flesh and blood. And we will receive «pictures in an interior» not only on walls, but also on a floor.
Date of the publication 31.01.06