Utopia
Curcuma
Utopia rugs represent a meeting of values: artistic research and manufacturing skills. Eccentric yet versatile, carpet Utopia celebrates the design of Italian artist Ico Parisi with this graphic decoration that explores the art of making visible the invisible.
Care & Maintenance
A correct handling and small daily attentions ensure that you may preserve over time the tactile and aesthetic qualities of the carpet. In addition to the quality of the cleaning, which must strictly be professional in case of handmade carpets, there are a number of important recommendations to be made. A few inconveniences may occur soon after first buying a hand-crafted carpet for the first time. Recognizing them and knowing how to deal with them can help you prevent irreversible damage.
Obtained from a technique known as silk worm rearing, natural silk originated in China in 2000 BC, but gained popularity worldwide only since 500 AD. An astonishingly lightweight, sleek and shiny fabric, natural silk allows a very fine and compact knotting, characterized by a particularly high definition of the design.
Ico Parisi (Palermo 1916 – Como 1996) was one of the particularly expressive figures of the ‘900 culture. During his career, he works as an architect, as a designer, as the “utopian man” that take on the present and future with a series of provocative and ironic proposals. Its architectural research has often operated in the logic of integration of arts involving contemporary artists in his projects including Mario Radice, Lucio Fontana, Francesco Somaini, Alberto Burri, Fausto Melotti, César, but also people like Michelangelo Antonioni.
