Cobble stone carpet and vibrant colors on our Bo Kaap materials palette

08/05/2021
Category: Mood boards

Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa that literally translates to “above the Cape”. Bo-Kaap sits on top of the slopes of Signal Hill above the city center. Known for being a historical center of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town, the neighborhood is famous for the colorful buildings and cobblestone streets. Bo-Kaap is a multicultural town and contains the largest amount of 1800s architecture in South Africa. Bo-Kaap is the oldest residential neighborhood in Cape Town.

The entire Bo-Kaap neighborhood of Cape Town is lined with cobblestone steps, which inspired our stone carpet. The cobblestone streets have a European look because they use rocks imported from Holland. Dutch people that colonized South Africa brought these cobblestones in ships. They were laid out in the 17th-18th century. Bo-Kaap still has cobblestone streets in modern times because they are the best to prevent flooding in the town. Since Bo-Kaap is on mountainous hills, the rainy season can cause flooding in the streets. The cobblestones allow the rain to disperse into mini-channels to let the rainwater flow down smoothly.

Our love for the details on the cobblestone streets of Bo-Kaap made us envision an innovative design of our own. We seamlessly translate the Bo Kaap roads to create curvy and rectangular stone shapes in our pattern. The irregular angles and lines around the stones add a modern look to a traditional setting. Using neutral grey tones, the cobblestones create a simple everyday beauty through our recolored Roches carpet design by Mr. Christian Lacroix.

We use contract materials for the rest of our material board, Lava Calda, a beautiful green glazed basalt tile. We incorporate Scribble XL, an abstract upholstery that is bold and sustainable. Dash has also added a solid pastel peach color porcelain tile. Cameo is a woven wool blend textile that also goes well with Color, Greens, Transparent in our mood board. Lastly, we use Porta Fregio, an intricate geometrical pattern in pastel pink and blue.

If you would like to learn more about Talk Carpet’s amazing recolor program, check out this page. You can personalize carpets like our Roches stone carpet with the recolor tool into any color you want. Online you can easily customize and visualize your carpet patterns immediately. There are endless options for your hospitality, workplace, or multifamily design projects. There is no minimum order on recolored patterns, and the sample turnaround time is around five business days. Please contact one of our team members for help with your next carpet project.

Products Used:

Roches by ege carpets

Lava Calda by Ann Sacks

Scribble XL by HBF Textiles

Dash by Nemo Tile

Cameo by Bernhardt Textiles

Color, Greens, Transparent by CARVART

Porta Fregio by Scalamandre

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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.