Mies

A leader in the field of handmade rugs, we are proud to be collaborating with Designer Rugs for a range of hand-tufted New Zealand wool and bamboo rugs. Each rug is made to order in Malaysia. Inspired by the originating furniture piece, Ray. Choose from six shapes and nine colourways.

75% New Zealand wool and 25% bamboo

Hand-tufted rugs are produced by shooting yarn through a tufting gun into a stretched fabric frame, much like a stretched canvas. Each shape and colour is tufted separately, like a colour-by-numbers, and their construction makes them the perfect choice for geometric designs. Hand-tufted rugs are more affordable than hand-knotted rugs, and their durability means they are suitable for commercial applications.  Wool  Valued for its durability and natural softness, sheep wool has been a staple of rug making for millennia.  Its distinctive structure and lanolin content give it a number of important benefits – it is flame retardant, stain repellent, extremely durable and even acts as a natural dehumidifier.

Wool is also a 100% renewable product, making it highly sustainable and eco friendly. We use 75% New Zealand wool in our hand-tufted rugs.

Bamboo has been used in the rugs for a touch of shimmer and shine. The bamboo fibres add dimension, playing wonderfully with light and shifting constantly under the gaze.  Bamboo has a lustre similar to silk and is used to emphasise portions of each rug’s design, creating incredible highlights and lowlights. We use 25% bamboo in our hand-tufted rugs

2500mm x 2500mm

12-14 weeks depending on volume of order.

“Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet.” - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (known primarily by his surname) was a highly prolific architect, considered by historians to be one of the most important of the 20th century and one whose work left a legacy in architectural theory.Mies was born March 27, 1886, in Aachen, Germany. Before moving to Berlin, he worked in his father's stone carving shop and at several local design firms. After settling in Berlin, he joined the office of interior designer Bruno Paul, then later became an apprentice at the studio of Peter Behrens from 1908 to 1912, where he was exposed to the current design theories and progressive German culture. His peers at the studio included Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius. He began his independent professional career designing upper-class homes.His designs were known for their emphasis on open spaces and function over ornamentation, and his favoured materials were basic and utilitarian: steel, concrete, brick, and glass. Mies strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of unobstructed free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. He sought an objective approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design but was always concerned with expressing the spirit of the modern era.From domestic spaces like the Villa Tugendhat in the Czech Republic to large, elaborate office towers like New York’s Seagram Building, he imbued his buildings with a fluid spatial harmony reflective of his oft-quoted aphorism, “less is more.Nearly as important as the legacy of his buildings is Mies’s impact as a teacher of architecture. In Germany, he served as the final director of the influential Bauhaus school until its closing under pressure from the Nazis in 1933. Shortly after his arrival in the United States, he was offered the directorship of the Armour Institute in Chicago (later renamed the Illinois Institute of Technology), where he shaped a curriculum that influenced a generation of American architects.Though in the period after his death many architects rejected his strict formalism in favour of the more eclectic language of postmodernism, his legacy continues to inform the teaching and practice of architecture today.