Biophilic carpet and a materials palette with cues from the Strelitzia flower

04/05/2021
Category: Mood boards

The Bird of Paradise is a beautiful plant native to South Africa that features bright and uniquely shaped flowers. The popular name of the queen of flowers is due to its resemblance to birds-of-paradise. The flower features inspiring vivid blues, yellows, greens, and oranges. Its scientific name is Strelitzia Reginae, after Queen Charlotte Mecklenburg-Strelitz who took on botany to get away from King George III.

The gorgeous Bird of Paradise is all over the beautiful Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden located in Cape May. This garden sits by the eastern slopes of Table Mountain, which is filled with gorgeous and colorful vegetation native to South Africa. The botanical garden was established in 1913 when the chair of botany at the South African College, Harold Pearson, realized that the town needed a botanical garden that could be linked to the university.

The beautiful views of the Kirstenbosch inspire us to use our Bamboo Forest Recolored carpet. The vivid colors of the Bird of Paradise plant take the green tones of the carpet to the next level. Our Nature Collection features beautiful biophilic carpets that are sure to create a stunning combination with the vivid colors of the queen flower.

The Bamboo Forest Recolored carpet acts as the perfect canvas for a biophilic materials board. We use Taxi and Marina, which are artisan-made tiles that are extremely durable and come in a variety of vivid colors. The Devon brick adds some more warmth with its orange tones and the material itself adds an industrial touch. When it comes to textiles, the blues and greens add a simple touch without taking the attention away from the vivid colors. The biophilic wallpapers, Palma and Pico, are a beautiful combination with the carpet to make you feel like you truly are in Kirstenbosch. We also include complementing materials, including the Elenco Rectangle, Wide Plank Hickory-Oil, and Encaustic tile.

Our Easy Recolor Nature collection allows you to recolor biophilic carpets inspired by beautiful nature all over the world. With our Easy Recolor concept, you can personalize your carpet in an easy and fast way. We offer a wide variety of carpet patterns to choose from and a choice of nine carpet substrates. Make sure to contact us if you want to spice up your commercial interior.

Products used:

Bamboo Forest RECOLORED by ege carpets

Wide Plank Hickory-Oil by Terramai

Taxi by Fireclay Tile

Epoca Rasp by ege carpets

Union Cloth Upholstry by DesignTex

Ulster Upholstry by Design Tex

Marina by Fireclay Tile

Elenco Rectangle by Ann Sacks

Devon Brick by COVERINGS ETC

Encaustic Cement Tile by Sabine Hill

Pico by HD Walls

Palma by HD Walls

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Sitting right next to Pompidou in Paris is Atelier Brancusi. This place is a reconstruction of the studio of renowned Romanian-born artist Constantin Brancusi. In the atelier, there are 137 sculptures, 87 bases, 41 drawings, two paintings, and more than 1600 grass photographic plates and prints by the artist.

Brancusi died in 1957, leaving behind a lot of his work in his studio, which consisted of 11 joined studios. The Romanian artist would break down walls to adjoin studios and create various environments to exhibit his work. He considered the relationship between sculptures and the space they occupied to be of crucial importance.

In 1997, the Atelier Brancusi as we know it today opened its doors on the esplanade of the Center Pompidou. So much of Brancusi’s work is on display at the atelier, giving you an idea of how much the artist put into the world. There are wood and plaster sculptures, bronze colonnades, animal shapes, and photographic studies. It is a beautiful and inspiring place to visit.

Inspired by the stone and natural textures of Brancusi’s work, we recolored the Stone Surface carpet. This is part of the nature collection by ege carpets, which takes inspiration from forests, deserts, and oceans. This light recolor of the carpet allows you to bring a textured palette to your next interior design project.

We created a material board that focuses on a textured palette with the atelier colors and the recolored carpet in mind. We included dark woods like Texas Mesquite 83000 and Artisanal Hardwoods. Keeping the dark brown theme, we also included different textured textiles like Artisan Textured Finishes by CopperSmith, Basketcase by Cortina Leathers, Lafayette Velvet by Opuzen, and Chesney by Valley Forge Fabrics. Additionally, we decided to bring some lighter tones of cream and white by adding Cove, True Terrazzo, Concrete Look Porcelain Paver, and Passion. To tie in the soft colors with the dark ones, we included mid-toned neutral paints like Crewel Tan by Sherwin-Williams and Mesa Tan by Dunn-Edwards Paints.

If you like our textured palette, you might be interested in our Easy Recolor Program. We used this to recolor our Stone Surface carpet, enabling us to source the perfect backdrop for our textured palette. Using our online tool, you can do the same. Choose from any of our collections and recolor them to match any interior. You can then visualize the carpet before ordering physical carpet samples. You’ll receive your samples within three business days at an affordable price. Contact us if you want to learn more.