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Memphis Milano

Riviera Rug by Nathalie Du Pasquier

10-16 Weeks
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Flowers, fruit and birds coexist with the typical geometric lines and patterns of Memphis in this wild ensemble of forms known as Riviera, a carpet in pure wool created by the French designer Nathalie Du Pasquier in 1983.
Warm tones of turquoise, yellow and orange bring harmony and balance to these very different elements. The rigid spatial organization of the composition is interrupted and masked by the sinuous impact of the vibrant botanical forms, halfway between exotic flowers and birds, seemingly left free to move around on the surface.

100% Tibetan wool rug, hand-knotted on traditional loom. Available in two sizes.

As the carpet is made by hand dimensions and colours may vary from the image.

68.9" x 98.4"

100% Tibetan wool rug, hand-knotted on traditional loom.

Italy

Nathalie Du Pasquier, French artist and designer, was born in Bordeaux in 1957. She has lived and worked in Milan since 1979. In 1981, Du Pasquier, who is self-taught in design, was among the protagonists of Memphis. Her many designs for decorated surfaces such as fabrics, carpets, furniture and plastic laminates have played a fundamental role in creating the unmistakable Memphis style. Despite her success as a designer, from 1987, when Memphis broke up, painting became her main activity.

Du Pasquier's continuous research is expressed in paintings, sculptures, drawings, models, constructions, carpets, books and ceramics, which constantly investigate the boundary between the representative and the non-representative, the tangible and the intangible, reality and imagination and two- and three-dimensional forms. Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries and institutions around the world such as PACE Gallery and the Camden Arts Centre in London, the Kunsthalle Lissabon, and the Vienna Kunsthalle.

Her first major solo exhibition in an Italian institution, entitled Campo di Marte, was held in 2022 at the Museo di Arte Contemporanea in Rome.

Condition: New