Pixelated carpet recreates La Muralla Roja by architect Ricardo Bofill

26/01/2021
Category: Mood boards

We are absolutely in love with La Muralla Roja, overlooking the ocean on Spain’s Mediterranean coast. Inspired by Arab Mediterranean architecture and the casbah, architect Ricardo Bofill created the residential home to look like a castle in 1968. The housing project is located within the La Manzanera development in Spain’s Calpe. The citadel uses large block-like structural elements to make the residential space postmodern in design. It is those blocks that are the inspiration for our pixelated carpet.

The unique design creates an open terrace with a rooftop view overlooking the beautiful ocean. Vibrant red and purple colors are used for the structure’s exterior colors and the rooftop to symbolize the La Muralla Roja’s meaning, as it stands for “The Red Wall” in Spanish. Zigzag stair shapes lead down to the lower levels, where more playful colors are used, including bright pink, purple, red, and blue. The whole building plays with a modern and edgy design.

For this material board, we used Pixel Noise recolored into the colors of the La Muralla Roja building. The vibrant blue, pink, red, and burgundy colors used in our pattern perfectly recreates the Spanish citadel’s appearance. The blocky square shapes aligned in different colors resemble the vibrant walls of the beautiful casbah structure.

Our mood board comprises the pixelated carpet Pixel Noise by ege carpets as our elegant background, Seasons Wall Tile by StyleAccess, Bottega Ceramic Tile by Porcelanosa, Reform a new wave grass by ege carpets, Reflect by Knolltextiles, Mechanical Glazed Terracotta by Design and Direct source. All of these contract products magically translate the image of the magnificent building into our mood board.

If you would like to recolor some ege carpets patterns, check out this page. With the recolor tool, you can easily personalize and visualize our carpet patterns. There are endless options for your hospitality, corporate, and office carpet design projects. We have various color and pattern options for broadloom carpet and carpet tiles for this colorful mood board design. There is no minimum order for recolored patterns, and the sample turnaround time is three business days. Please contact our team members for help with your unique project.

Contracted products from material bank used:

Seasons Wall Tile by StyleAccess

Bottega Ceramic Tile by Porcelanosa

Reform a new wave grass by ege carpets

Reflect by Knolltextiles

Mechanical Glazed Terracotta by Design and Direct source

Pixel Noise RECOLORED by ege carpets

pixelated carpet, Pixelated carpet recreates La Muralla Roja by architect Ricardo Bofill

Schedule an introduction with us

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.