Tipografico #1, 80% wool carpet
- Artist Mariantonia Urru
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AF153 Tipografico
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Year 2020
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Technique Pibiones*
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Description 80% wool, 20% cotton. The result is a very heavy fabric, 5 to 10 mm thick depending on the size of weft and irons, characterized by a dotted texture
*Pibiones technique is realized through the use of bars to which a large wool weft is wrapped around. This passage creates a very compact curl, reminiscent of a small grape, which in the dialect of Sardinia is called “Pibione”.
N.B. There could be a variation in length respectively of:
+/- 5 cm up to 2 meters in length
+/- 7 cm up to 3 meters in length
+/- 15 cm up to 6 meters in length
About
"Tipografico" carpet collection by Stefano Asili. He was born in Cagliari in 1963, he graduated in Physics in 1987 and obtained a doctorate in Architecture in 2015. He is a member of AIAP / BEDA.
Graphic designer, illustrator, art director and interior designer, he has designed logos and coordinated identities for public and private institutions such as ISS (Istituto Superiore di Sanità), INAF (National Institute of Astrophysics), CNI (National Council of Engineers), ARST (the Regional Transportation Authority of Sardinia), City of Cagliari, Video On-Line and many others.
He had organized the AIAP International Graphic Design Week in 2011. He teaches Graphic Design at the Faculty of Architecture of Cagliari and at the European Institute of Design.
This piece is handmade to order
Estimated production time: 60 days
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Mariantonia Urru
Mariantonia Urru is a woman. She is an entrepreneur and a mother. It is the tradition of her land to which she gives new life by contaminating it with the sensitivity of the present and the applications of her future customers. At 14 years old her first work, since then she has never stopped, and when her children have grown up enough she was able to open her own laboratory.
Mariantonia Urru gives to weaving multiple meanings: a link between past and present, a link between innovation and tradition, as for tradition of making. She looks into the future, maintaining a quality of product and crafts that originally belongs to the past and which are a great heritage of technical and cultural value.
Mariantonia Urru opens the door to the collaboration with international designers, supporting them in the research of technical solutions and supporting the various formal results. She intends to promote the territory by making sharing of knowledge and communication the basis of its innovative path.
