PARTICLES Andrea Morgante for Nodus
High Design Collection
Nodus is an Italian workshop for experimentation and a cultural project which joins the most ancient knowledge in the art of carpet design from around the world.
A new horizon of shapes, colours and functions of the rug reinterpreted using the vision of international renowned designers and architects.
The High Design Collection shows the world’s best in hand-knotting for design and innovation, customizable on request.
Hand-knotted
100 knots per inch and a pile of 8 mm height
Wool
300 x 200 cm
Handmade in India
Particles is a hand crafted rug that pays an affectionate tribute to the philosophical work of Gottfried Leibniz, specifically to his theory concerning monads, seen as indivisible fundamental existing entities.
The rug depicts the infinitesimal moment in time where man is portrayed as a precarious and porous assembly of individual particles, evaporating and blending into the surrounding environment. A visual manifestation that questions the concept of absolute, indivisible singularity and the relationship of an individual towards their immediate environment.
The same question could be shifted towards a more contemporary definition of society, in light of the recent geo-political events: is the rug depicting an individual or a community of connected individuals?