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EXCLUSIVE:
SACHA WALCKHOFF OF CHRISTIAN LACROIX TALKS RUG DESIGN
The Christian Lacroix Jewels Garden rug makes its
US debut at the new Moooi showroom opening in Manhattan today.
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PARIS -
The grey area between art and design is obliterated in the new rug
collection by Moooi, and nowhere is that more evident than in the
signature rug designed for the envelope-pushing Dutch brand than the
Jewels Garden rug by Sacha Walckhoff, designer and creative director of
trend setting fashion lifestyle house Christian Lacroix.
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Sacha Walckhoff, designer and creative director
at Maison Christian Lacroix.
(Photo by Grégoire Alexandre)
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"Imagining
rugs is really magic: It is like designing on a huge sheet of paper,"
says Walckhoff, who initiated a continuing Christian Lacroix licensed
rug and home textile collection for Designer's Guild in England and a
porcelain program with Vista Alegre.
"I met
the great designer Marcel Wanders [Moooi Co-Founder and Art Director] a
few years ago, after he saw photos of my Paris place in a magazine. A
few of his creations are in my apartment, and he sent me a nice note
about it. I invited him to a Lacroix runaway show in Paris and we became
good friends," Walckhoff explained.
"Last
Christmas, Marcel called and asked me to design a Lacroix rug for the
new collection MOOOI launched this April in Milan. It is a fab
collection of rugs digitally printed with an amazing new technique so I
sent him this crazy design "Jewels Garden" that we imagined at the
studio mixing vintage Haute Couture Lacroix Jewels with flowers, madras
textiles that we found at the Paris flea market and graphical shapes
related to the Cosmos.
"I
wanted to express how we work at Lacroix, mixing our brand patrimony
symbols with new and fresh shapes inspired by today's moods and spirit.
It was like imagining a fairy tale rug for a modern Sherazade!"
In 2010,
I was appointed Creative Director of the Lacroix house and, with
Nicolas Topiol, CEO of the brand , we decided to create a lifestyle
department with partners such as Designers Guild (home decor) and
Vista Alegre ( Porcelain collection ). It allowed us to build a new way
to express Lacroix.
This
edition with MOOOI is a new step for this department as are the
accessories we are imagining every season for our home decor collection
produced by Designers Guild. "This season, I designed a rug collection
inspired by the Amazonian jungle. One rug is mixing tiger's stripes with
pantera's fur so I named it "Pantigre." One is representing the amazing
vegetation at the top of the trees "Canopy†and the third one is made
out of huge multi-colored fruits like the ones you may find on the
market in Manaos," Walckhoff explained.
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The Canopy rug by Christian Lacroix for Designers
Guild is digitally printed on wool ($1,900 in 67"x91").
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The Pantigre rug of wool and viscose (1,450 in
60"x102") for Designers Guild shown with other Christian Lacroix
fabrics.
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About
Christian Lacroix: Since the launch of the Couture House in 1987, the
Christian Lacroix style has been unique, exuberant, colorful and
baroque. Today, Christian Lacroix Maison expresses its dynamism and love
for color via its lifestyle, accessory and Ready-to-Wear menswear
collections designed by the brand's Creative Director, Sacha Walckhoff
and made in collaboration with several prestigious labels.
05.14.15
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