Nanimarquina Do-Lo-Rez Blue Rug

Ron Arad was born in 1951 in Tel Aviv into an artistic family - his mother is a painter, his father a photographer. He attended the Academy of Art in Jerusalem until the early 1970s, when he decided to leave Israel and study architecture in the UK. Settling in London in 1974, he enrolled at the city's least conventional school, the Architectural Association, where he studied under Peter Cool and Bernard Tschumi with classmates like Nigel Coates, Peter Wilson and Zaka Hadid. He quickly developed artistic and cultural interests outside architecture, and his work became increasingly oriented towards design and non-rhetorical artistic uses of materials. In 1981, with Dennis Groves and Caroline Thorman, he set up One Off, the design agency that made its successful debut with a set of tubular steel furniture. Arad has made no secret of his predilection for technology and the modern aesthetic as ways of revisiting and revising typologies from the past. As a sculptor and craftsman who has taught himself to cut sheet steel, bend wooden legs and put bent plywood to new sculptural uses, he has produced furniture that is emotional and sensual as well as aggressively light and practical. A similar philosophy is evident in his designs for the futuristic foyer of the Opera House in Tel Aviv, the Belgo restaurant in London, the installations for "L'Esprit du Nomade", Fondation Cartier in Paris, the impressive project of Adidas Stadium in Paris, the Domus Totem for the Triennale in Milan, the exclusive Yohji Yamamoto's Store in Tokyo, the Design Museum in Holon, Israel.

Created by Ron Arad, Do-Lo-Rez is a union of two pieces, rug and sofa, conceived as a single element. Created jointly, they form an unusual project that brings the virtual world closer to the real world. Its name comes from the expression ''do low resolution''. The idea came to him after seeing a pixilated image in low resolution, which hasMaterialized into a three-dimensional surface. The rug is made through the hand-tufting technique, making each square a different height from the ones beside it. On the other hand, its extraordinary format involves multiple vertices that seem like the final pieces of an unfinished puzzle. This game of volume and levels allows for made-to-measure, customizedrugs.

• Technique: Tufted
• Material: 100pct New Zealand Wool
• No dry cleaning
• Vacuuming is recommended at least once a week
• Do not allow stains to dry-in and apply a suitable stain-removing solution
• Do not have the carpets dry-cleaned too often
• In the event that dry-cleaning becomes necessary, make sure that it is done by a specialized dry-cleaner
• Features:Construction: Handmade
• Collection: Do-Lo-Rez
• All products are Special Order. All products are non-returnable and orders cannot be canceled
• Distressed: No
• Collection: Do-Lo-Rez
• Country of Manufacture: Spain

• Pile height: 0.3'' / 0.59'' / 1.18''