Stroke Rug Collection by Sabine Marcelis for cc-tapis.

Known for her masterful manipulation of colour and pushing the boundaries of materiality and manufacturing processes to create the unexpected, Rotterdam-based designer Sabine Marcelis debuts a new rug collection for cc-tapis dubbed Stroke.

Each room is envisioned as a blank canvas and the rug as the singular gesture onto which one builds a composition. Starting from these domestic associations, Marcelis considers the expressive potential of everyday life.

“The house is a like a canvas and we are constantly creating drawings and marks and traces with our daily gestures. Stokes, wipes, brushes, streaks – surfaces become a temporary canvas,” says the designer. “The rugs capture two of those gestures in a permanent state.”

Marcelis also took cues from Lichtenstein’s pop-art brushstroke paintings and the colourful fields of Pablo Tomek’s spontaneous movements, harnessing the totality of the gesture within each design.

Each rug features a gradient of colour saturation and pile height, mirroring the three-dimensionality and irregular pigment of a stroke of paint. The ridges and valleys a painter relies on to build intensity are rendered in dyed wool, highlighting the thoughtful craftsmanship present in each cc-tapis creation. View the collection here.

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[Images courtesy of cc-tapis.]