Modern minimalist carpet palette pays tribute to Morgan Otagburuagu's work

Modern minimalist carpet palette pays tribute to Morgan Otagburuagu’s work

25/03/2021
Category: Mood boards

Morgan Otagburuagu is a Nigerian photographer who focuses on fashion, beauty, and portrait photography. She is from Abia State, and she photographs beautiful African women with a strong emphasis on highlighting their deep skin tones. Her new series, Black is Gold, honors black women who are not given credit in Western society. In order to portray their independence, Otagburuagu creates powerful and virtuous images that emphasize their beauty. We are creating a modern minimalist carpet palette inspired by her vision.

Her portraits of African women, she covers the models in flower petals and beautiful floral headbands. She uses dark-skinned models in the photographs, to showcase the beauty and power in their complexion. In the photos, her models pose nude so that their skin is the main subject of the artwork.

Similarly, we use a modern minimalist carpet pattern called Spotlight that we recolor. The carpet uses gradient textures that blend both colors naturally. We translate the powerful image of dark-skinned women into the carpet. For the rest of the mood board, we use carved by TURF, Clearest Ocean Blue by Benjamin Moore, Diamante by Hygge & West, Pearly White Oak by Anthology Woods, Encaustic Cement Tile by Sabine Hill, Fuse by Kvadrat/Raf Simons, Una Casa by ege Carpets, Rumor by Outdura, and Black Sea by coverings ETC.

If you would like to recolor a carpet pattern as we have in this beautiful palette, check out this page. With the recolor tool, you can easily personalize and visualize your carpet patterns to your liking. There are countless options for your next commercial interior design projects. We provide a selection of 5 carpet substrates in carpet tile designs and 9 carpet substrates in broadloom carpet designs. 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 custom project.

modern minimalist carpet, Modern minimalist carpet palette pays tribute to Morgan Otagburuagu’s work — Image credit: Doyle Wham

Contract products used:

Spotlight RECOLORED by ege carpets

Carved by TURF

Clearest Ocean Blue: 2064-40 by Benjamin Moore

Diamante by Hygge & West

Pearly White Oak by Anthology Woods

Encaustic Cement Tile by Sabine Hill

Fuse by Kvadrat/Raf Simons

Una Casa by ege carpets

Rumor by Outdura

Black Sea by coverings ETC

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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.