Tom Dixon carpet recolored to match colorful Tim Meakins art

09/03/2021
Category: Mood boards

Tim Meakins is an up-and-coming artist that creates extremely unique sculptures that look like cartoon characters. His works look like clay cartoons that morph into other objects, similar to cartoons we have all seen as children. Meakins is a freelance illustrator, Perth artist, and designer. He uses pop art and social media to present his artistic representations and usually leaves the artwork open-ended, allowing viewers to think about the meaning ourselves. The meaning behind his life-size cartoons is to identify masculinity in a social construct. They are often lifting weights and have muscular bodies. Meakins allows his audience to reinterpret the societal roles set in social expectations. We’re recoloring a Tom Dixon carpet to match our Tim Meakins inspiration.

One of his sculptures called “Hotdog 2020” is of a life-size cartoon hot dog with muscular legs and arms. The hotdog is smiling mischievously and looks like he is working out. Another one of his artworks, “Protein 2020” is a similar artwork that looks like he is a muscle head with a body of a protein shake and weighted plates as his head.

We translate Tim Meakins’ cartoon exhibitions into our material board. Our Blur II carpet by Tom Dixon transforms into a colorful version to use as the backdrop of the palette. We incorporate mustard yellow, light red, and light blue colors, similar to the sculptures.

For the rest of the mood board, we use Vidar by Kvadrat which uses natural earth tones. The material is tightly woven and uses wonderful contrasts. The Bella Vista by Durasein complements the Zellige by Riad Tile, along with ReForm A New Wave Grass by ege.

If you would like to recolor one of our existing patterns, check out this page. With the recolor tool, you can easily personalize and visualize your carpet patterns to your liking. There are endless options for your hospitality, corporate, or multifamily interiors projects. Our Tom Dixon carpet collection is available as broadloom carpet and carpet tiles. 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 interiors project.

Tom Dixon carpet, Tom Dixon carpet recolored to match colorful Tim Meakins art — Tim Meakins Hotdog 2020 and Protein 2020. 3d render. © the artist.

Materials used:

Blur II RECOLORED by ege carpets

Vidar by Kvadrat/Raf Simons

Bella Vista by Durasein

Zellige by Riad Tile

ReForm A New Wave Grass by ege carpets

Encaustic Cement Tile by Sabine Hill

Lilac by Kyle Bunting

Gem Cabal by Ann Sacks

Embosse by Scalamandre

Color, Yellows, Transparent by Carvart

Patagonia Slab by Artistic Tile

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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.