This year, Bologna, Italy’s annual trade show highlighted the industry’s continual achievements—thicker formats, more responsive surfaces, and increasingly realistic patterns and textures.
Developed for Internet-era shopping, temporary spaces by Giorgio Borruso Design and Flexetail are built from an ingenious kit-of-parts solution for store design.
Carpets by the Barcelona-based company aren’t the only hand-woven offerings on the market, but they are among the most demonstrative and enduring examples of traditional hand-weaving. The eponymous founder ensures these old techniques are applied to innovative new designs.