Carpet with numbers for our Retna street art inspired mood board

05/03/2021
Category: Mood boards

Artist Marquis Lewis, also known as RETNA, is one of the world’s most prominent street artists. This American contemporary artist is known for his typography graffiti-style art. In his paintings, he combines poetry, fashion imagery, and media images into his designs. He also portrays his love of his Los Angeles upbringing in his artwork. His works are the starting point for our bold yet minimal materials palette featuring a cool carpet with numbers. This ege carpets pattern would definitely make a fun commercial area rug or workplace carpet.

RETNA uses primarily acrylic, enamel, aerosols, and oils to craft his paintings. For our inspiration image, we are focusing on the large RETNA painting at the Wynwood Walls. His wall art is mesmerizing and beautiful, incorporating white letters on a red background. The color combination and the giant letters stand out to anyone, even from a distance.

He creates beauty through language, using Egyptian, Hebrew, Roman, and Arabic calligraphy in his murals. His paintings often include hieroglyphics, and he gives the audience a multisensory artistic experience implying that all cultures are diverse and beautiful. A unique part about RETNA is that he does not reveal the meaning behind his artwork. He wants the viewer to have his own unique experience and interpret the symbolism for himself.

Similarly, our Neutron Large carpet with numbers reflects the graffiti street style into a more elegant and mysterious one. The letters and symbols are upside down, flipped, and sideways into one sizeable continuous pattern. The grey color creates a neutral interior space for any hospitality or office project.

We use Neutron Large by ege Carpets that is recolored into an elegant grey and black color for our edgy mood board. We include contract products Una Micro by ege carpets, Vidar by Kvadrat/Raf Simons, Excalibur by Riad Tile, Sunny by Alex Katz by Maharam Social Dance by Designtex.

If you would like to recolor some ege carpets patterns as we have in this beautiful pattern, check out this page. With the online recolor tool, you can easily customize and visualize your own personalized carpet. There are near endless pattern options for your hospitality, restaurant, corporate, or office carpet design projects. We provide options in broadloom carpet, commercial area rugs, carpet tiles, and planks. There is no minimum order on recolored patterns, and the sample turnaround time is around three business days. Please contact one of our team members for help with your carpet project.

carpet with numbers, Carpet with numbers for our Retna street art inspired mood board — Image credit Yield Gallery

MATERIALS USED:

Una Micro by ege carpets

Vidar by Kvadrat/Raf Simons

Excalibur by Riad Tile

Sunny by Alex Katz by Maharam

Social Dance by Designtex

Neutron Large RECOLORED by ege carpets

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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.