Limited Edition “Foco Rojo” by Ariel Rojo for Odabashian

Mexico City – Tenochtitlan.

Founded in 1325, it has been the capital of two empires and now a Class “A” world city and the center of a burgeoning creative movement that is taking the design world by storm.

Ariel Rojo’s “Foco Rojo” is the latest collaboration with Odabashian in developing limited edition hand made rugs. Mr Rojo uses this theme as it’s central statement.

“Mexico is in a state of red alert. But not in a negative sense. It is in a promising state that it is out of it’s comfort zone in order to grow creatively”. -Ariel Rojo.

This movement is clear in the latest developments in art, architecture and design in that city.

This limited edition of 10 pieces is available exclusively through Marion Friedmann Gallery in London. The rug was on display during the 2012 London Design Festival at DesignJunction and has received many accolades in several international publications such as COVER magazine.

It was also a finalist during the 2013 edition of the “Carpet Design Awards” at Domotex Global flooring show in Hannover, Germany in January 2013.

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Odabashian’s mission is to consistently promote emerging design in hand-made high-quality limited edition rugs for only the most discerning interiors across the globe. For more information, please contact us here.

Ikat fashion on the floor- Custom designed Ikat patterns on Odabashian rugs

Ikat designs originate from a dyeing technique that is called Resist-dyeing which is similar to Tye-die.

Interior trends often emulate memes and trends from the fast-moving fashion industry. The Ikat print/design is one of those cases where a clear influence takes place. Roomology, one of New York’s trendy interiors blogs recently commented on the upcoming Ikat trend in interiors and their presence at the New York Home Fashion Show and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF).

“It’s taken a few years, but it [Ikat] has finally trickled from the fashion world through to fabrics and on down to rugs, and I have to say, I’m pretty thrilled about it!”

Recently, Odabashian delivered a custom hand-knotted rug for a mid-century modern luxury home. This particular rug has accents in genuine silk. It is a very tight weave that is made exclusively in the area around Agra, India. Agra has a long tradition of extremely high quality worksmanship and is where the Taj-Mahal resides. Many artisans and weavers in this area of India have weaving tradition that dates back over 700 years in the same family.

Ikat by Odabashian at a mid-century contemporary home. Photo P. Arena

For over 92 years, Odabashian has been proud to support this continuing tradition by working exclusively with the best and highest quality weaving centers. Contact us to find out how we can support your luxury interiors or hospitality project.

Odabashian supplies rugs to cutting-edge Mexican Design Store – Pirwi

Alejandro Castro & Emiliano Godoy, two design visionaries who founded Pirwi in Mexico City, are at the forefront of the environmental sustainable design.

Odabashian is a proud rug supplying partner to Pirwi’s flagship store in Polanco, Mexico City.

From Dwell Magazine:

“Since its inception, Pirwi was thought as a manufacturing platform with a high care for the environment, reducing impacts on in-house manufacturing processes as well as materials sourcing and disposal. Furthermore, several design and manufacturing strategies have been implemented in order to better control our products’ environmental impact throughout their complete life cycle. We like to collaborate with designers, suppliers and clients that share our concern for the preservation of our planet.”

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To find out how Odabashian can manufacture an exclusive signature rug line for your design business, contact us here. 

Odabashian manufactures Elias Kababie’s rug collection

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.

Custom rugs for Westin Cancun’s meeting rooms in progress!

The Westin Cancun is a long-time customer of Odabashian’s contract and hospitality division. The hotel, originally designed by Ricardo Legorreta, also a long-time customer of Odabashian, enjoys one of the most beautiful beaches on Cancun’s legendary coast.

The interiors were exquisitely designed DP&A, contract interior architecture firm from Buenos Aires and the property owners trust no one but Odabashian to manufacture and execute the oversize custom hand-tufted rugs for the public spaces.

The rugs are currently under the final stages of completion and finishing within Odabashian’s exclusive looms in India.

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Contact us to see how we can support your hospitality project in Mexico, the Caribbean and beyond.

 

Igloo Design – A hand-knotted rug resembling a peaceful oasis in your living room.

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.

Contact us if you want to explore how Odabashian can develop and materialize your design on a

Danae Estrada’s refined rug design reflected at the cool new NH Hotel in Queretaro, Mexico

Odabashian’s Miami-based contract/hospitality division recently completed production and delivery for Quarto Creativo’s interiors at the hotel NH in the colonial city of Queretaro, Mexico.

Danae Estrada's "Tree Stump" at the NH Querétaro

Led by Danae Estrada who designed the custom rugs for this project, Quarto Creativo is a boutique interior design firm that has turned traditional business hotels to dynamic and fun meeting spaces. Odabashian has already participated in several of Quarto Creativo’s projects with other NH properties in Mexico.

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With Mexico’s brisk economy flowing in regional cities, more and more of these business hotels are making these destinations very attractive to the business traveller as well as with traditional tourism.

Check out some of our other hotel projects here.

Contact us to see how we can support your hotel or residential interior project.

Paul Cremoux’s “Yuxtaposiciones” gets you thinking and keeps you pondering Sustainability

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)

Contact us to see how we can use our 90-year experience to manufacture one-of-a-kind design rugs for your project.

Paola Calzada’s exquisitely elegant “Espuma”, part of the exhibit at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City.

Architect Paola Calzada is never still.

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”.

For “Espuma’s” development, Paola experimented with over twenty patterns, textures, geometrical elements of Japanese style and aesthetic. She has used references ranging from urban Tokyo to graphic art such as Katsushika Hokusai’s graphically intense “Wave off Kanagawa”

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.

Here is a short interview (in Spanish)

Gonzalo Tassier’s “Tapete de Asfalto” – A Safe zone at home.

“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.

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