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Designer Rugs has collaborated with leading Australian artists and designers to create rugs that break the mould for over 25 years. Recently, they paired up with designer Kerrie Brown to release four stunning rugs that embraced Kerrie’s unique aesthetic.
“After a celebrated career as a set decorator on international feature film Oscar nominee Kerrie Brown began her own design brand in Sydney, Australia just over 4 years ago. At her studio in Woollahra, Brown renders vibrant and theatrical graphic illustrations, prints and patterns for application on textiles, wallpapers, art prints, lampshades and other soft furnishings incl. cushions. Photographic imagery is overlaid with text, drawings, paint pigment, portraits, and paper, forming dynamic digital collages that merge artistic styles, time periods and cultural symbols. The new Designer Rugs range is original, highly sophisticated and demands attention, be it in a commercial or domestic setting. Like Kerrie’s wallpaper and fabric designs the Designer Rugs range is suitable for residences, restaurants, club settings and hotels from Sydney to New York.”
Botanical Graffiti
“Inspired by 18th century European still life paintings this rug is overlaid with dripping paint, deteriorating concrete surfaces, smudges and paint pigment forming a digital collage that merges artistic styles, time periods and cultural symbols.”
Damask in Distress
“This rug was inspired by my love of layers and layers of peeling paint and wallpapers, mistakes, splotches and spills – each layer peeling back to reveal a history told in pattern and colour. The aesthetic cues are drawn from an array of 18th century motifs combined with a good helping of street art.”
Lost in Transmission
This rug “is a play on an early 19th century traditional pattern. The scale is enlarged and overlaid with cracks and smudges to seemingly tell the story of a well-worn and much loved rug. Inspiration is drawn from literary characters and fashion icons such as Sherlock Holmes, Alexander McQueen and Christian Dior… all lovers of Houndstooth!”
You Crack Me Up
“With this rug I wanted to design something more abstract and textural and play with light and shadows. It’s a digital collage of layer upon layer of some of my favourite things; broken surfaces, rough concrete, peeling paint, fading light, blurred shadows and smudges of deep blue pigment.”
All rugs are made in Nepal out of Tibetan Wool + Bamboo. The default size is 240 x 300cm, but they can be custom shaped, sized and coloured to suit any interior.
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