Stone carpet with a gentle nod to the typical Armenian Tuff facade

10/06/2021
Category: Mood boards

During our visit to Armenia, we fell in love with the beautiful architecture. The material used to construct the buildings stood out the most to us. The buildings in both Yerevan and Gyumri featured beautiful tuff stone with tints of a variety of colors and unique patterns. Some buildings had such a wide variety of tuff colors and patterns that it created a pixelated effect.

This unique stone is Armenian Tuff, and it is the main material that the country uses in construction. Tuff comes from the burning of ash and pumice, which occurs when a volcano erupts. The stone was very easy to find in Armenia, and it had many benefits. Tuff is lightweight and breathable; it is easy to handle and keeps buildings at a comfortable temperature throughout the year. Additionally, the stone comes in a variety of colors, such as yellow, pink, red, and black, as well as many patterns. Tuff is so common in Armenia that the biggest cities in the country are named after the tuff that was most used in the construction of their buildings. Yerevan is known as the Pink Tuff City, and Gyumri is the Black Tuff City.

Inspired by the many patterns and colors of tuff, we recolored the Marbling carpet from the Arts & Crafts Collection. This stone carpet is extremely reminiscent of some of the patterns that you can find on tuff in Armenian buildings. Additionally, the neutral colors make it easy to match with any interior while making you feel like you are stepping back in time to a historical city.

Keeping our inspiration in mind, the material board features grey-toned materials like Cembrit Patina, Octave, and Stainless Embossed Starlight. We also included Monarch Plank’s Garda to add wood texture with a color very similar to the recolored carpet. Additionally, we included grey-toned paints such as Peppercorn, Textured, and Snowfall. To add a pop of color, we included Roycroft Copper Red by Sherwin-Williams. Lastly, we included stone-like materials like Blox by Silver State Inc. and Solid Mosaic Giovanni Barbieri, to complement our stone carpet.

Talk Carpet’s Easy Recolor program allows you to easily recolor any of our carpet designs to perfectly complement your workplace, hospitality, or multifamily project. We offer a variety of carpet constructions, and you can receive your personalized carpet within eight weeks. If you want to customize the perfect carpet, contact us.

Products used:

Marbling RECOLORED by ege carpets

Garda by Monarch Plank

Cembrit Patina by American Fiber Cement Corporation

Solid Mosaic by Giovanni Barbieri

Octave by Holly Hunt

Blox by Silver State Inc.

Stainless Embossed Starlight by Moz Designs Inc.

Textured Painted Trim by Haworth

Peppercorn by Sherwin-Williams

Roycroft Copper Red by Sherwin-Williams

Snowfall White: OC-118 by Benjamin Moore

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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.