St. Barths is one of the most exclusive beach resorts on earth. Exclusive designer and starchitect designed homes cover the small French island in the caribbean.
Starting in 2012, Odabashian is now offering the exclusive designer collection exhibited at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City through specialty design store Villa Nueva
Luxury fashion curator, Camille Russler has an eye for style. Ever After, Miami’s most exclusive bridal store recently underwent a full renovation. Led by Miami’s own Bloom Interior Architecture, which has done hospitality and high-end retail interior proejcts across the globe, they selected a custom hand made Odabashian rug for the entrance to the store.
The rug is designed by MYT+GLVDK, a collaboration between New York-based Mexican designers Andres Mier y Terán and Regina Galvanduque. Andrés has long experience in interiors projects. He worked with Philipe Starck in the mid 90s and is now creative lead in Grupo MyT’s multiple restaurant projects in New York, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Regina is a graduate of Parsons School of Design and has collaborated with several of Mexico’s most prominent designers and architects.
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Often featured on Trendhunter as well as major design publications, Elias Kababie is one of Mexico’s most exciting rising design talents.
Recently, Elias Kababie seeked out Odabashian to manufacture a new and fresh collection of hand tufted wool rugs to complement his cutting-edge furniture and accessory collection.
His selection includes “No Signal”, a playful take on TV culture.
Other selected designs include the “ace”, a vintage-look “Ace of Spades” playing card.
Other designs are playful approaches to color and geometry.
Igloo is a design studio led by long-time friends and veterans of Mexico’s graphic design world, Monica Peón and Griselda Ojeda.
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Igloo was invited to participate in the unprecedented project to design an original hand-knotted rug and to exhibit it at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City.
The Igloo team’s experience in this project was very evident in the results of their design. Monica has undergraduate experience at UAM and international exposure from Cranbrook, one of the most respected design and art schools in Michigan. Griselda compliments this ability through her experience from Escuela Nacional de las Artes and her unflinching dedication to her studio.
Together they developed “Submarino”. This is a 100- line tibetan weave rug with spectacular use of color, texture and balance which clearly illustrates Igloo’s mastery of graphic design application to unconventional objects.
During the opening night, “Submarino” was one of the most popular pieces of the exhibit and Odabashian is certain will mark the first of many collaborations with the excellent Igloo team.
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For thousands of years hand-knotted rugs have been used as a graphical form of expression through the use of color, texture and material. In our age of interconnectedness and globalization, it is only logical to begin to assume that all forms of graphical expression can instigate personal reflection and introspection. Hand made rugs are not the exception!
Benito Cabañas, a renown poster and graphic artist from the exquisite colonial city of Puebla through his company Abracadabra, participated in Odabashian’s exhibit at the Franz Mayer Museum of decoriative and applied arts in Mexico City called “Tapetes – Anudando historias, enlazando ideas”.
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His contribution to the collection called “Libertad” (Freedom) is representative of his extraordinary career. In it he follows his exceptional ability to communicate powerful ideas with minimal graphical resources.
Renata Becerril, curator of the exhibit describes:
“For millenia, rugs have always expressed deep graphical symbolism as a secondary function of their intended design use as a surface covering. Geometrical patterns, natural motifs and colors express meanings in each of the geographical locations where the rugs are woven. In his piece, Benito uses contemporary language using the ancient medium”
Benito Cabañas inspects his rug for the first time at the Franz Mayer Museum on opening night.
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One of Mexico’s emerging design giants, Emiliano Godoy’s approach to rug design is as brilliant as it is unconventional.
An industrial designer from Pratt Institute’s graduate program (New York, 2004), with a BA degree in industrial design from Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City, 1997) and furniture design studies from the Danish Design School (2003). He runs the design firm Godoylab, and is the design director of the furniture manufacturer Pirwi.
His custom rug, “FM” exhibited at “Tapetes- Anudando Historias, Enlazando ideas” at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City, attempts to reveal what the eye does not see. In this rug design, he materializes invisible FM waves propagating through space through the masterful use of color, material and texture. The statement is a powerful one that re-asserts the observers’ context in reality: Just because sensory inputs a person receives are not perceived, does not mean they are not real.
Renata Becerril, curator of the exhibit quotes Mexican Philosopher Manuel de Landa:
“We live in a world inhabited by a complex mix of geological, biological, social and linguistic structures that are simply clusters formed by and hardened by history”
“FM” was featured on the cover of Estilo Magazine in June 2011 as well as other publications such as Entremuros and Rugdesign Blog.
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How does an object d’art transcend its material form into an abstract idea?
The capability of design is so fundamentally revolutionary in nature, that it has the implicit power to influence thoughts. These thoughts have the potential to become trends, and these trends to change our environment….literally.
With his background at UNAM (Mexico), Columbia University (USA) and EPAD (France), Paul uses his multicultural experience to attempt to make a strong statement on the environmental impact of all that we acquire. The design of his rug for the exhibit “Tapetes – Anudando historias, enlazando ideas” which was exhibited at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City in the Spring of 2011, is an exploration in environmental impact and sustainability.
The rug, “Yuxtaposiciones” has references to it’s impact:
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- The grey and off-white contrasting lines were designed in Mexico and represent a baseline to blur and confuse the eye into one monochromatic color base.
- The colored part of the design are the inscribed woven names of each of the weavers that participated in the actual hand weaving manufacturing process. Furthermore, the colors are selected from the remains of the wool used in the manufacturing process of other custom rugs for Odabashian. Thus, “Yuxtaposiciones” seeks to empower the actual weavers to be an active participant in the composition of the rug itself.
Furthermore, the rug installation is exhibited with a Google Maps detailed trajectory of the logistics that the raw materials, transformation and finished goods underwent throughout the entire process.
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And as a final and clear statement, Paul includes the calculation of the mass of CO2 released by the production of one of these rugs across the entire supply chain process.
Here is a short video of Paul discussing his rug (Spanish)
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One of the most active collaborators in Odabashian’s hospitality and luxury residential projects across the globe, Paola brings a fresh, elegant and extremely relevant contribution to the collection that was exhibited at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City in Spring of 2011.
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Her piece, “Espuma” (“foam” in English”) is a very clear example of the many global sources, references and passions that fill her architectural and design practice. Not one to shy away from any scale, she focused on her current interest in Japanese aesthetic for “Espuma”.
Renata Becerril, curator of the exhibit describes the aesthetic:
(Paola’s) final design, seafoam, ocean and the cherry blossom with it’s shadow reminds us of Tanizaki’s writings in his “In Praise of Shadows” where he describes darkness and light as the epitome of his culture. On the dark shadowed surface, Man finds himself. Through this vision he finds philosophical reflections, age and the use of thigs. It is in “Espuma” that the light and shadow have a clear dialogue and help us decipher the image.
“I was born with a gift and I feel that my duty is to give it back to others.”
-Gonzalo Tassier
Recipient of the prestigious Sir Misha Black medal awarded by London’s Royal College of Art in 2008 for extraordinary dedication to design education, Gonzalo Tassier embodies the humility and back-to-basics attitude that is the fundamental charisma sought by many designers across their entire careers.
Gonzalo’s piece, aptly named “Tapete de Asfalto” (Asphalt Carpet) is an exploration into how graphics evoke a very clear emotional response from users. The black wool background and the white silk lines are a representation of the lines on a crosswalk. Crosswalks, are a “safety zone” in a hostile pedestrian environment. A place where one feels safe when crossing the street. At home, around our living room, in our bedroom or in our den, we feel the same sense of security. Shelter is one of the most basic and primordial origins of human design.
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To see the entire collection of the exhibit at the Franz Mayer, click here.
Ximena’s long experience in editorial design and her fascination with the graphic representation of the written word is apparent in her proposal “Entrelineas” (Eng: “In-between lines”) which is an exquisite and visually stunning hand-knotted rug. Her piece is an introspection in the plasticity of the letters and their forms, not their meaning or the sound of their phonemes. Her translation from a writing medium to a hand-knotted one exaggerates the dimension of the hand-stroke of each character. It is at this large-scale that the aesthetic quality of the calligraphy is appreciated as a form of design: one that is perhaps lost, minimized or overlooked while reading, but generates new feelings and proposals at a large scale.
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