Clara
For Milan Design Week 2023, we presented a series of new collections created in collaboration with the leading Milanese architect and interior designer Clara Bona. This has been Clara Bona’s first venture in rug design, although she has always considered it an essential element in completing a home. “I think that an interior design project should start by choosing the rug” explains Clara. “The right carpet characterises the style of the environment and creates a warm and lived-in atmosphere. Above all, it helps to delimit the space and define its functions: in fact, the conversation area in a living room without a rug seems always bare and unfinished.”
The carpet, therefore, assumes the same importance of a painting, a contemporary work of art or a piece of design furniture. It often happens that the choice for the floor covering is the last step after everything has already been defined: colours, furnishings, lights. And there are still many who think of rugs in a traditional, old-fashioned way, which brings them back to dusty memories: nothing could be more wrong.
The present rug, called Clara, is part of the collection called ‘Relazioni’, and it employs geometric shapes combined with a rich palette, matched to create harmonious yet unpredictable compositions.
The design takes shape through the intersection of various forms, creating a balance between fullness and emptiness, conceived for an eclectic home which welcomes the boldness of colour. Thanks to the balance in their composition, patterns such as this can be integrated into very different contexts, and feel as if they were always part of the space.