Christian Lacroix carpet recolored to match Sylvie Fleury art installation

13/03/2021
Category: Mood boards

Featuring in the Thaddeus Ropac museum, are Sylvie Fleury’s Palettes of Shadows. Fleury is a Swiss contemporary artist, who creates conceptual art. Critiquing superficiality, she follows in the steps of Marcel Duchamp and Andy Warhol. Many of her works are similar to pop art and use vibrant colors. Her installation explores geometrical patterns and shapes. The shapes are similar to those in a large-scale woman’s make-up palette. The shapes and colors mimic eyeshadow and compact cases. Also, they resemble luxury brand make-up palettes that are widely known. We’re using this as the starting point for our materials palette, featuring a recolored Christian Lacroix carpet.

One of the installations in the exhibit is in a black square shape and looks like Chanel’s eyeshadow palettes. Others in a gold outline are similar to other luxury brand palettes such as YSL and Dior. Following Fleury’s previous exhibitions which include a luxury bag that is out of context, her new works also explore feminism.

Similarly, we translate Fleury’s exhibition into one of our Christian Lacroix carpet designs. We recolor the Carreaux design into a colorful pink and purple. The geometric shapes incorporate small squares inside of a bigger square, mimicking traditional ceramic tiled floors. The outlines are in beautiful pastel pink, and the purple squares create a beautiful geometric design. The pastel tones are similar to Fleury’s eyeshadow palettes using purple and pink shadows.

For our palette, we use a recolored version of Carreaux as the backdrop. We use other contract materials to translate Sylvie Fleury’s exhibition, such as Vidar by Kvadrat. We also include Exagoni Dimension Ceramic Wall Tile by TileBar, Claridge Glass by Claridge Products, and Spiritual Purple by Durasein. The Cheerful Yellow by Durasein looks just like the yellow squares and circles on the museum wall. We also feature The Fine Lines Terrazzo by Giovanni Barbieri, Muse by Viatera, Gradient Stripe by Paul Smith by Maharam, Mandarin by Wolf-Gordon, and Echelon Ecru by Sherwin-Williams.

If you would like to personalize some of our existing carpet patterns as we have in this mood board, check out our recolor page. With the recolor tool, you can easily customize and visualize our carpet patterns. There are endless options for your next hospitality, corporate, or multifamily design project. We have numerous options in broadloom, carpet tiles and carpet planks. There is no minimum order on recolored patterns, and the sample turnaround time is around three business days. Contact one of our team members for help with your custom project.

Materials used:

Carreaux RECOLORED by ege carpets

Vidar by Kvadrat/Raf Simons

Exagoni Dimension Ceramic Wall Tile by TileBar

Claridge Glass by Claridge Products

Spiritual Purple by Durasein

Cheerful Yellow by Durasein

The Fine Lines Terrazzo by Giovanni Barbieri

Muse by Viatera

Gradient Stripe by Paul Smith by Maharam

Mandarin by Wolf-Gordon

Echelon Ecru by Sherwin-Williams

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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.