Monthly archives: February 2010
Fibre Designs – Five Years of Fabulous Floorware
Walk through the red doors of no 16 Dixon Street in De Waterkant and you’ll find a melting pot of old and new. Sophisticated cosmopolitan culture meets the age old craft of hand-woven rugs at Cape Town’s favourite rug gallery, Fibre Designs.
What used to be an old naval office, today houses a collection of contemporary hand-woven rugs designed by Pierre Antoine. Pierre’s love for textiles and rugs took flight as a young boy. He literally grew up amongst them.
Pierre’s mother, Belgian-born Yvonne Antoine, established Antoine Persian Carpets Cleaning & Restoration Studio upon settling in Cape Town in 1980. Twenty-five years later in January 2005, Pierre, who has by that time taken over the business, decided to establish Fibre Designs.
Today Fibre Designs is an oasis for homeowners, interior designers and architects needing to create that ideal setting or room.
The words by Geri Weitzman, which you will notice in the gallery, are not only true of your experience at the gallery but also of what Pierre has created for himself. “Sometimes you need to create what you want to be part of.”
Photographer Adriaan Louw visited Fibre Designs a while ago and took these beautiful pictures of the gallery.
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Highlights from Domotex 2010
Keeping his eyes on rug developments and trends throughout the world, Pierre Antoine says that designer Ulf Moritz is spot on with his predictions for the 2010/2011 season.
Moritz presented a talk on floorware trends at the recent Domotex fair in Hanover, Germany. He believes AUTHENTIC, DRAMATIC, DECORATIVE and EXCLUSIVE are the four keynote trends that will stand out in the 2010/2011 season.
“AUTHENTIC best describes carpets made of natural materials featuring organic structures that appear almost handcrafted.
DRAMATIC. This avant-garde look, which is strongly influenced by fashion and lifestyle trends, make a big, almost emotional impact on the viewer.
No less eye-catching, but more romantic, are the carpet designs representing the DECORATIVE trend, which translated appealing, imaginative patterns based on romantic and folklorist influences in a distinctive and original style idiom.
As the name suggests, the EXCLUSIVE design trend is the display category for top quality to luxurious traditional carpets featuring classic patterns, value and timeless quality.”
Another presentation by architect and designer Hadi Teherani, from Hamburg, also got us thinking. “Teherani believes that the fifth architectural façade is no longer the roof, but rather a plane which is much closer to the people: the floor,” says Pierre.
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A Hearty Thanks
Thank you to all you joined us in our World Aids Day initiative at the end of 2009. We value your contribution. A percentage of all sales during December will be donated to the Nelson Mandela 46664 campaign, to help increasing awareness, fighting prejudice and improving education about HIV and Aids.
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Monochromatic Super Waves Shaggy for a Masculine Room
House & Leisure Magazine featured our Super Waves Shaggy in the February 2010 edition.
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