“What Man took”- Ariel Rojo’s sobering environmental statement on a hand-knotted rug

A proud and very conscientious ”Chilango“, Ariel Rojo’s design statements transcend and communicate ideas and feelings that are relevant to almost every context of urban life.

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Renata Becerril, curator of the exhibit “Tapetes – Anudando historias, enlazando ideas” at the Franz Mayer during spring of 2011, has this to say:

Designers play an important role in helping create awareness among users.

Creating an object that uses sustainable materials or techniques, or that it’s concept exposes a subject, are examples in which the designers manifests their active role as change agents.

Ariel Rojo creates scenery that invites you to think and become aware of the rational and irrational use of trees. In addition of being a manifestation about our use of the environment, the rug itself is an experiment both in concept and technique. The horizontal and bidimensional plane is translated to a vertical and volumetric one. A surface becomes an object. An object that, as Ariel explains, can be used as a stool or as a decorative element where you can lean on and meditate about “what Man took away”. 

While designers, as creators of objects of desire, have a great responsibility in the way they react and aswer to certain issues, the consumers are the ones who can really affect and generate change in their environments. That is clearly where the designer’s potential as an instigator and facilitator of reflection and introspection propagates across society. 

Ariel Rojo has been collaborating with Odabashian since 2009 on other projects such as the “Tire Rug” and several hospitality projects in Saudi Arabia and Miami.

His work with Odabashian has been featured several times in Icon Magazine, Habitat (image below) and other design blogs.

Featured on the cover of Habitat Magazine, Mexico. June 2011

Contact us to see how you can use talented designers like Ariel in your custom rug project.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Makur Project Live on Kickstarter.com – “Art your feet”

For the first time in history, anyone can not only support the upcoming design movement in Mexico and Latin America, but in exchange for this support, Odabashian will allow donors to select one of the 21 custom rugs that will be exhibited at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City on April 6.

You can see the Kickstarter page here

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Kickstarter is an innovative platform that allows anyone to support creative projects. The idea is simple:

• Pledge the amount you are comfortable with through trusted Amazon.com payment system
• Your credit card will ONLY be charged IF, and only IF the funding objectives are met.
• You will be supporting creativity through an unprecedented event.
• You will get something in return for your pledge!

You can support the project HERE.

Bloom Interior Architecture – South Beach Boutique Hotel

One of Miami’s most renown commercial and contract interior architecture firm, Bloom recently designed the most unique concept to reinvigorate a boutique hotel on Ocean Drive in South Beach.

The concept included a rug designed by Ariel Rojo Design Studio for Odabashian.

Bloom’s demanding and impeccable design team needed several nautical-themed area rugs that conveyed fun, sun and fabulous Miami lifestyle.

Some of the proposed designs are also worth noting:

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To find out how we work with specialized hotel and commercial interior designers, contact us at one of our locations.

Mecca Series designed by Ariel Rojo for Odabashian

Odabashian was selected by a Dallas-based interior design firm, as the rug supplier to an American-branded hotel project to open in the City of Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 2009.

Odabashian selected Ariel Rojo to design series sensitive to the religious and spiritual importance of the holy city. His proposal included motifs that reminisce moorish architecture from Spain as well as other architectural details from the Levant area.

If you would like to see a sample of the qualities of the rugs that were proposed for this international project, please contact us.

 

Ariel Rojo’s Huichol-inspired “Hive” Series

The Huichol indigenous ethnic group in Mexico have some of the most sophisticated graphic designs of all Meso-American tribes. Referring themselves as Wixáritari, they weave and manufacture elaborate designs on carved wood, embroidery and beadwork. 

Ariel Rojo masterfully reinterprets this tradition and demonstrates it’s applicability to contemporary cutting-edge area rug design.

Odabashian is extremely proud to keep the Huichol craftsmanship alive and propagating across the globe through our projects.

 

These pieces can be manufactured in hand-tufted or hand-knotted qualities for any sized project. Contact us for a quote.

Ariel Rojo – Aerial Series

Ariel Rojo‘s inspiration for this exlcusive design series for Odabashian is created from introspective views from the window of an airplane to the ground far below.

Familiar shapes take odd, new forms as perspective from the air gives new meaning to large-scale structures on the ground.

These rugs can be made in hand-tufted or hand knotted qualities for a residential or hospitality project.

Contact us if you would like to see a sample.

Ariel Rojo’s Tire Rug on display at the Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM) in Mexico City

What better location to exhibit cutting-edge Mexican design than the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City?

Ariel Rojo’s “Tire Rug” is currently on display at a temporary exhibition showcasing Mexican design talent and it’s positive impact on Mexico’s identity as a nascent design powerhouse. 

The Museum of Modern Art is known for having the best permanent exhibition of painters and sculptors from the modern Mexican art movement.It also features some of the most important temporary exhibitions of national and international modern art in the world.

The Tire Rug – A project by Odabashian and Ariel Rojo

Odabashian Hotel Rugs has partnered with cutting edge Mexican designer Ariel Rojo to create the Tire Rug.
This is one of the designer collaborations we are developing together with the top interior designers in Mexico.

The Tire Rug has been featured on New York’s biggest Women’s Blog, The Luxury Spot, where Bryce Gruber writes:

“One of my favorite interior design concepts is the idea of clean, sophisticated, and elegant elements and and color schemes with a few bold masculine pieces.  That could be anything- a white room with lots of lucite furniture and a few pieces of drift wood shelving, or in this case, chic-Euro stylings with a rug designed to look exactly like a big tire. It’s the perfect compromise between feminine elegance and “I’m a cool chick.”

Plus, it’s designed by Ariel Rojo, so it’s art for your floor”

Also featured on page 126 of  ON OFFICE Magazine – Salone Edition

“Ariel Rojo Design Studio has used a graphic representation of one of the most important inventions of all time – the wheel, to create the Tire Rug. It was designed in Mexico and manufactured in India with the collaboration of Odabashian International. Together they are working to maintain the oldest traditions and knowledge in the art of carpet design and reinterpreting it by using the vision of contemporary designers. The Tire Rug is made from 100% New Zealand wool with a cotton base and is available in two sizes”