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NEW ADDITIONS TO JAN KATH’S SPACECRAFTED COLLECTION

The German designer's award-winning collection expanded for Maison & Objet 2015

Fifteen years. That is how long it took Jan Kath to fully achieve the sumptuous Spacecrafted collection. Inspired by images from the Hubble telescope, the German designer waited more than a decade for technology, technique and experience to align in order to do justice to the universe’s surreal landscapes. It was worth the wait. The result has us (and just about everyone else) over the moon.

Part of a general trend towards breathing new life into old concepts, Spacecrafted revives the rug and rethinks its place in the home. The collection originally debuted at IMM Cologne 2014. It won a German Design Prize 2015 and has since garnered a Wallpaper Design Award for Space 3. And at last week’s Maison & Objet, the collection was expanded with London design brand Front presenting jaw-dropping new additions.

A technically impressive palette of more than 60 colors goes into the nebulous images. The rugs are entirely hand-knotted in Tibetan highland wool and silk by a small, highly specialized group of weavers in Kathmandu, Nepal. Each square inch of each rug contains between 150 and 200 knots, and each knot must be meticulously checked throughout the fabrication process – a fact which makes our head spin and exponentially increases our appreciation for handcrafting. The depth of color and painstaking process lends a three-dimensional effect.

Above all, Spacecrafted appeals to our inner child, the part of us that still dreams of the impossible. It revives our longing to travel outside of boundaries, outside of time. It transforms the rug from a simple accessory to a doorway of possibilities, a reminder that of something greater from inside your living room.

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