Rugsville Hugo Ivory Bordered Gabbeh Carpet 5'3" x 7'6"

Gabbeh weavings emerged from the Qashqai and Luri nomads of southern Iran, sleeping rugs first, decorative objects only by accident of how the West read them. The piece in front of you carries that vocabulary into a neutral register.

The studio worked the design in graphite and ink for three to four months before approving it for production, the cartoon then translated into the digital file the loom reads as a colour-by-position grid. The colour relationships were tested across multiple proofs to confirm that the ivory would hold its weight against both warm and cool ambient light. The piece reads consistently in north-facing rooms and in rooms lit by warm incandescent at evening.

The fibre

The pile is heat-set polypropylene, an engineered fibre where colour is fixed at the moment of extrusion. UV does not lift the saturation, traffic does not pull the pile flat, and household spills are a wipe rather than a panic. Maintenance is closer to a hard floor than to a wool carpet. This tier exists because not every floor in a house can absorb the cost of a hand-knotted piece, and the rooms that take the most traffic are usually the rooms that least suit one. The construction was developed for those rooms specifically.

The composition

A composition built around the interaction of ivory, with secondary tones in lighter and darker registers separating the motifs. The geometry is designed to read at distance as a coherent ground and on approach as a layered pattern. Pairs with walnut, brass, leather, linen, and warm timber floors; pairs less well with strongly patterned upholstery, the rug expects to be the only graphic element in the composition.

The piece in a room

5'3" × 7'6" (160 × 229 cm) works in a living room with sectional seating, in a bedroom under a king bed, in a study with a large desk, or in an open kitchen where moisture and traffic would damage a wool piece. The ivory pulls cleanly through both daylight and lamplight.

Care

Vacuum weekly. Spot clean with mild detergent on a clean cloth. Machine wash on a cold 30°C cycle if a spill resists spot cleaning, then air dry flat. No professional cleaning required at any point in the working life of the rug.

Reference

• Medium: heat-set polypropylene, jacquard-woven
• Dimensions: 5'3" × 7'6" (160 × 229 cm)
• Density: ~760000 points per square metre
• Pile: 15 mm
• Backing: woven polypropylene
• Origin: Turkey

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