Tuesday 21 June 2011

I Saloni Milan - Kasthall

Kasthall has been designing and manufacturing unique woven and hand tufted rugs and carpets since 1889. Since its foundation the company has been operating from its own factory in Kinna, an area rich in textile manufacturing history in the west of Sweden. This is where we still make all our woven and hand tufted rugs today. Over the years, Kasthall has grown to become one of the leading international designers and manufacturers of rugs. Today the company is represented in more than 30 countries around the world.


Dag and Natt
design: Petra Lundblad-Fridén


Our designer Petra Lundblad-Fridén’s passion for experimenting with different images and colours, and using layers to create new expressions, has resulted in this printed pattern. It is bold yet discreet, fateful and dreamlike at the same time. Everyone interprets the pattern differently. Perhaps the sun is breaking through the clouds after rain, or rolling waves are in contrast to a dark sky, or trees and bushes are thrashing in the wind.


The four colour combinations have names reflecting the weather and sky phenomena: Haze, Thunder, Summer Dawn and Autumn Dusk. The pattern is printed on our woven rug Häggå in pure wool.


Embroidery
design: Petra Lundblad-Fridén


Embroidery is an exclusive hand tufted rug in pure wool with an imaginative pattern. By playing with different textures of yarn – our thick, luxurious-quality Classic combined with our beautiful Tekla – Petra Lundblad-Fridén, our designer, created a pattern that is reminiscent of an embroidery that is in progress. The pattern is a bit mystical, so you feel you lose track of the stitches as your eye looks for regularity in the irregular. It is up to the observer to complete the image.


Embroidery is available in five colour combinations, all of them selected to heighten the mysterious character of the rug.


Fading
design: Petra Lundblad-Fridén


Fading is a hand tufted rug in wool and linen. The natural materials in the rug and the two yarn colours combine to create a highly expressive and detailed pattern. The shading and directional shifts in the pattern are inspired by the feeling of things changing over time, shifting in tone and ebbing away.


With a little imagination, you may see a landscape outlined in the gossamer pattern at the base of the rug. It may be a field in autumn, falling leaves – stillness. Fading is available in four different colour combinations.


Gry
design: Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg

 
Gry is a hand tufted rug of wool and linen. Mathias, one of our talented hand tufters, developed this new texture from existing ones, so we decided to name the rug after his daughter Gry.  


Gry has a soft shimmering and robust surface with a fresh, vibrant expression. The mixture of wool and linen in different nuances gives this rug its unique structure and lustre. The collection comes in a wide palette that suits many settings.


Choose your favourite among ten different colour combinations inspired by elements of nature.


Happy
design: Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg


Happy is a woven rug of wool and linen, colourful and charismatic, with stripes that both harmonise and contrast. A charming relative to our rug Doris, the name Happy comes from the lovely sensation you get when you walk on it. Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg, our chief designer, named the five different colour combinations after feelings and life situations that she likes: Passion, Summer Holiday, Winter Night, Potato Digging and Harmony.  

 
Happy is a fantastic piece of handicraft. All the colour and yarn changes are painstaking work that requires patience and great professional skill from the Kasthall weavers.


Marocco
design: Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg


Marocco’s pattern takes its inspiration from North Africa while the texture itself is firmly rooted in our woven bouclé rug family. Imagine the scent of spices and milling markets or a cup of mint tea in a
Bedouin tent.


The meeting between Scandinavian simplicity and oriental richness creates a sublime rug. Made from wool and linen, the eight colour combinations are inspired by spices: salt, pepper, aniseed, vanilla, cardamom, cayenne, spearmint and ginger.

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