Rug Star MAGAZINE 02 - Intimacy Berlin | 120 Pillows
Welcome everyone to the second issue of RUG STAR Magazine featuring INTIMACY BERLIN Volume 02 and the 120 PILLOWS project.
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RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
INTIMACY BERLIN<br />
<strong>120</strong> PILLOWS<br />
№ <strong>02</strong>
SEE ME, HUG ME, LOVE ME<br />
Welcome everyone to the second issue of RUG STAR<br />
Magazine featuring INTIMACY BERLIN Volume <strong>02</strong><br />
and the <strong>120</strong> PILLOWS project.<br />
Only 5 short months ago in late August 2016, we<br />
published the first 10.000 copies of RUG STAR<br />
Magazine Volume 01. Still fresh and crispy I packed<br />
them up and started my annual autumn promotion<br />
tour; this year to The<strong>Rug</strong>Show in NY, The Shanghai<br />
Furniture Fair, the IDS in Vancouver and to The<br />
London Design Week.<br />
I felt blessed, with INTIMACY BERLIN. I had<br />
finally created the perfect communication tool<br />
to show how my rug designs bloom in real living<br />
situations and the magazine was the right frame to<br />
show these pictures.<br />
Back in <strong>Berlin</strong> I continued shooting our rugs in<br />
real-life living situations. We find all of the homes<br />
by requesting assistance from friends, so the<br />
homeowners are not paid for letting us photograph<br />
our rugs in their living space. Instead, we cook for<br />
them and teach them about the joy and love we have<br />
for this craftsmanship. So far all interiors have been<br />
exclusively shot by the <strong>Berlin</strong>-based photographer<br />
Michael Tewes.<br />
As of yesterday, 24 homes have been visited in the<br />
last 1.5 years, 166 of our rugs have been shot in the<br />
homes of my friends and we are grateful and happy<br />
to see that we have been able to establish a fresh<br />
and unique way of how to communicate the beauty<br />
and identity of hand knotted area rugs. In 2017 we<br />
will continue this project in Bergamo, Italy with my<br />
dear friend Michele Cobelli, in Portland, Oregon<br />
USA with our beloved Christiane Millinger and in<br />
Beijing, China with my buddy Ma Jin and his<br />
awesome Jambros team.<br />
Last but not least, I am more than excited to introduce<br />
to you our <strong>120</strong> PILLOWS project. <strong>120</strong> pillows,<br />
manufactured all by hand in <strong>Berlin</strong>, all knitted by<br />
my dear friend and design icon Claudia Skoda, all<br />
truly one of a kind textile sculptures with a clear<br />
message:<br />
SEE ME, HUG ME, LOVE ME.<br />
Jürgen Dahlmanns,<br />
founder and creative head of RUG STAR
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 001<br />
Orchid No. 01<br />
Blue<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
0<strong>02</strong> RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Orchid No. <strong>02</strong><br />
Black<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 003<br />
DNA India Elephants<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
30% finest silk
004 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
NewClassic Tabriz Reverse<br />
EmperorYellow<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
85 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 005<br />
Tiger<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
75 % finest silk<br />
Eden Two Monkeys<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
35 % finest silk<br />
Eden Deer Head<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
30 % finest silk
006 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
FerahanSplash<br />
Turquoise<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
30 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 007<br />
IsfahanWoods<br />
Blue<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
008 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Koi No. 05<br />
SandyBeach<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 009<br />
Delft Three Birds<br />
Yellow<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk<br />
Damast Royal ECO<br />
OliveGreen, Neon GrassGreen<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
40 % finest silk
010 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Spot No. <strong>02</strong><br />
Olive&Mauve<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 011<br />
IsfahanWoods<br />
Strawberry<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
30 % finest silk
012 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Delft Thomas<br />
Copper<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 013<br />
NewClassic Tabriz<br />
Colourful on LightBlue Denim<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft
014 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
NewClassic Kerman Reverse<br />
LightPink<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
85 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 015<br />
Rajasthan ZeroPile No. 01 Runner<br />
ExEyeCandyPink<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
65 % finest silk
016 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
IsfahanBlock<br />
MidNightBlue Copper<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
30 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 017<br />
Orchid No. 01<br />
White<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
018 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
IsfahanWoods<br />
SoftBlue<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
30 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 019
<strong>02</strong>0 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Splash Lines No. <strong>02</strong><br />
AllNatural on LightBlue<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
70 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> <strong>02</strong>1<br />
NewClassic Kava Bagh Reverse<br />
EmperorYellow<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
85 % finest silk
<strong>02</strong>2 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Folding Sky No. 03<br />
Multi CyanCopper<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> <strong>02</strong>3<br />
Lines No. 01<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
35 % finest silk
<strong>02</strong>4 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Spot No. 01<br />
SoftSandySilk<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> <strong>02</strong>5<br />
Open Up Your Heart<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
15 % finest silk
<strong>02</strong>6 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
1956 No. <strong>02</strong><br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
65 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> <strong>02</strong>7<br />
Wasteland<br />
Nietzsche II<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
30 % finest silk
<strong>02</strong>8 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Eden Dragonfly<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
25 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> <strong>02</strong>9<br />
<strong>120</strong> PILLOWS<br />
SEE ME_ HUG ME_ LOVE ME<br />
<strong>120</strong> truly one of a kind pillows_ all hand made in<br />
<strong>Berlin</strong>_ all knitted by the design icon Claudia Skoda<br />
herself exclusively for <strong>Rug</strong> <strong>Star</strong>_ all as a truly one of<br />
a kind textile sculpture.<br />
SIZES<br />
TALL_ 50 cm x 70 cm<br />
GRANDE_ 60 cm x 90 cm<br />
VENTI_ 65 cm x 100 cm<br />
FILLING<br />
FEATHERS_ single filled (HUG ME)<br />
or double filled (SEE ME)<br />
ANTI ALLERGIC<br />
PLAYLIST<br />
We offer the service PLAYLIST to design and produce<br />
a truly one of a kind set of pillows matching each individual<br />
interior _ an extraordinary service we offer<br />
to all our traders and interior designers_ the order<br />
has to be a minimum set of 6 pillows_ we only need<br />
your personal PLAYLIST_ a compilation the once<br />
you love most out of the <strong>120</strong> and we start our work to<br />
create a unique new set of truly one of a kind textile<br />
sculptures for you.<br />
Big City No. <strong>02</strong><br />
60 cm x 90 cm
030 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
PLAYLIST 01_ 12 of <strong>120</strong><br />
Mama Whale No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Das ist Laub No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Gingko No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Kaviar No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Schwefel No. <strong>02</strong><br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Exit No. 01<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Arp No. 03<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Die Fliege No. 01<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Mörtel No. 01<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Uranga No. 01<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Birch No. 04<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Banner No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm
PLAYLIST <strong>02</strong>_ 12 of <strong>120</strong><br />
031<br />
Popeye No. 01<br />
65 cm x 100 cm<br />
Rooster Talk No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Big City No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Alice No. 01<br />
65 cm x 100 cm<br />
Wissen No. 01<br />
65 cm x 100 cm<br />
Luis XIV No. <strong>02</strong><br />
65 cm x 100 cm<br />
Storm & Roses No. 01<br />
65 cm x 100 cm<br />
Stone Garden No. <strong>02</strong><br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Kraal No. <strong>02</strong><br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Monkey No. <strong>02</strong><br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Fox In Forest No. <strong>02</strong><br />
65 cm x 100 cm<br />
Delft No. 03<br />
65 cm x 100 cm
032 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
PLAYLIST 03_ 12 of <strong>120</strong><br />
Hey Lula No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Relief No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Taxi No. 01<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Monkey No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Bush On Fire No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Schwefel No. 04<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Hôô Hôô Hôô No. <strong>02</strong><br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Mushroom No. 01<br />
65 cm x 100 cm<br />
Mörtel No. <strong>02</strong><br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Uranga No. 01<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Snail Pod No. <strong>02</strong><br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Rooster Talk No. <strong>02</strong><br />
65 cm x 100 cm
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 033<br />
Folding Sky No. 03<br />
Multi CyanCopperOrange<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
034 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
A Day and a Kite No. 03<br />
Mauve<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 035<br />
Folding Sky No. 03<br />
Multi CyanCopperOrange<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
036 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Koi No. 05<br />
BondiBlack<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 037<br />
Circle No. 03<br />
B&W<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
50 % finest silk<br />
Circle No. 01<br />
B&W<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
50 % finest silk
038 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Rajasthan ZeroPile No. 01<br />
ExElectricBlue<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
65 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 039<br />
Eden Clara<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
15 % finest silk
040 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Embrace Me, Skin of Light No. 04<br />
Runner<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
40 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 041<br />
Sacred ECO No. 05<br />
Cream on DarkGreyMauve<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
60 % finest silk<br />
Sacred No. 01<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
40 % finest silk
042 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Koi No. 05<br />
Pool<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 043<br />
Feathers Mr. Big<br />
Pastel 1<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
30 % finest silk
044 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
NewClassic Teheran<br />
MidNightBlue<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
65 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 045<br />
Rajasthan ZeroPile No. 10<br />
ExDeepPurple<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
65 % finest silk<br />
Rajasthan ZeroPile No. 10<br />
CreamEyeCandyPink<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
046 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Aubusson No. 04<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
70 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 047<br />
Mameluk<br />
DeepPurple<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
70 % finest silk
048 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Pine Garden Reverse<br />
LightPink<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
85 % finest silk<br />
NewClassic Teheran Reverse<br />
LightBlue<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
85 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 049<br />
Pine Garden Reverse<br />
Charcoal<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
85 % finest silk
050 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Rajasthan No. 13<br />
ElectricBlue on NaturalGrey<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
65 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 051<br />
NewClassic Kava Bagh<br />
AppleGreen on NaturalGrey<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
65 % finest silk
052 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Splash No. 01<br />
AllNatural Pink<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
70 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 053<br />
Splash No. 5C<br />
AllNatural Blue<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
70 % finest silk
054 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Block No. 03<br />
Pink on DarkGrey<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk<br />
Spot No. 05<br />
Copper & Mauve<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 055<br />
Black No. 01<br />
B&W<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
056 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Orchid No. 01<br />
White<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong><br />
057<br />
Splash No. 04<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
15 % finest silk
058 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Block No. 04<br />
SilverGrey<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 059
060 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
IsfahanWoods<br />
MultiColor<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
30 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 061<br />
Eden Grasshopper<br />
GreyBlue<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
25 % finest silk
062 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Delft Three Apples<br />
Peach<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 063<br />
NewClassic Teheran<br />
Colourful on Copper Denim<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
064 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong>
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 065<br />
Koi No. <strong>02</strong><br />
Blue on MidNightBlue<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
50 % finest silk
066 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
NewClassic Tabriz<br />
Colourful on Copper Denim<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 067<br />
FerahanSplash<br />
Turquoise<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
100 % finest silk
068<br />
RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Mono No. 07<br />
OldRose on LightSilver<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
100 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 069<br />
Dresden<br />
Brown<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
070 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
NewClassic Mughal<br />
Colourful on Purple Denim<br />
H 650 Luxury Tuft<br />
in viscose,<br />
wool and silk available
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 071<br />
NewClassic Kerman Reverse<br />
EmperorYellow<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
85 % finest silk
072 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
NewClassic Mughal Reverse<br />
EmperorYellow<br />
hand knotted Persian weave<br />
85 % finest silk
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 073<br />
Splash No. 06<br />
AllNatural LightBlue<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
70 % finest silk
074 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong>
INTIMACY BERLIN <strong>02</strong> 075<br />
SEE ME, LOVE ME, HUG ME<br />
by Roxana Florina Popa, publisher of the<br />
online magazine Customers4Fashion.<br />
We are all looking for sources of life and designers<br />
who can truly generate life into their products are<br />
few. This is a challenge that only the brightest and<br />
the most ingenious can make it shine.<br />
Besides beauty, playfullness and harmony,<br />
CLAUDIA SKODA and JÜRGEN DAHLMANNS<br />
meant to bring to the world creations that breathe<br />
and spread energy and love around them.<br />
Claudia Skoda, the famous and influential knitwear<br />
designer from <strong>Berlin</strong> and Jürgen Dahlmanns, the<br />
founder of <strong>Rug</strong> <strong>Star</strong> – the global design carpet label<br />
born in <strong>Berlin</strong> and the winner of numerous prizes at<br />
the Domotex Fair, decided to intersect their valuable<br />
experiences in fashion and interior design in order to<br />
create for the home textile area. Their first creation<br />
is what they call “a playlist” of <strong>120</strong> pillows. The two<br />
resourceful designers are also very good friends in<br />
real life.<br />
Claudia Skoda, who founded her fashion label in<br />
1975, has remained curious and creative in the fashion<br />
field for over 40 years. Young designers orient<br />
themselves based on her fashion innovations and they<br />
highly value her advice.<br />
Made by the hands of Claudia Skoda, the pillows are<br />
in reality the result of life-time experimentation with<br />
yarn and unique knitting techniques. Patterns such as<br />
“Kaviar“, “Spa“, “Mama Whale“, “This Way“ and<br />
“Exit” to a bright sunlight, “Dress well” and “Satellite<br />
City” make you fall in love with their lightness,<br />
sunny mood and good humour. They were imagined<br />
to immediately uplift the atmosphere of your house<br />
and bring fresh modernity to any interior setting.<br />
Their colour vibration is where the two designers<br />
come very close in the creative process.
076 RUG STAR <strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />
Interview with the designers CLAUDIA SKODA<br />
and JÜRGEN DAHLMANNS<br />
Roxana Florina Popa: Looking at your invitation on Facebook,<br />
seeing pillows flying up in the air and the number <strong>120</strong>,<br />
made me think of Nena’s song “99 Luftballons” and of children’s<br />
pillow fights. What is the spirit of this event in <strong>Berlin</strong>?<br />
Jürgen Dahlmanns: Our <strong>120</strong> PILLOWS project is a celebration<br />
in diversity, beauty, love and friendship. So you are<br />
right, our first picture to introduce our cooperation has this<br />
private emotion of joy and it reflects our working method to<br />
be a happening and a laboratory to find beauty.<br />
I met Claudia Skoda 15 years ago when I opened my first<br />
shop in <strong>Berlin</strong> Mitte. My work people know by now under<br />
the brand name RUG STAR. We have been neighbours in the<br />
beginning and we developed a deep friendship over the last<br />
15 years.<br />
JD: We have something in common; most of our work can be<br />
reflected as our diary. We both express ourselves with the patterns<br />
and the colour combinations we use on a textile surface.<br />
I think our understanding of the use of colours for particular<br />
designs is very close; here is the deeper connection in the<br />
profession.<br />
Stream No. 01<br />
50 cm x 70 cm<br />
Bamboo No. <strong>02</strong><br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Claudia is executing this for 40 years already in fashion and<br />
I have been executing this for 15 years in interior design,<br />
which is my hand-knotted rugs area.<br />
My goal is to extend my work, which at the moment is only<br />
concentrated on floor covering, also into the fields of home<br />
textiles. On the other side, Claudia has reached a point in<br />
her life where she wants her pattern language to be part of<br />
interior and architecture, too, since her patterns always had<br />
a strong architectural layer.<br />
So, in April this year, I offered her to start an open project,<br />
where we do not consider the final result. Of course, the item<br />
“pillow” was first set, but I denied any boundaries or goals in<br />
terms of volume, price calculation, distribution structure or<br />
final position on the market. I only wanted her to start talking<br />
with her knitting texture on field, so that we can later show<br />
it in the interior design. Slowly, we invented the pillow sizes:<br />
50 cm x 70 cm, 60 cm x 90 cm and 65 cm x 100 cm.<br />
Birchman No. 01<br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
Claudia is my raw model, not only in her work, but also in her<br />
positive reflection and attitude in daily live. We are two different<br />
generations, I get 50 soon and Claudia is one generation<br />
ahead. But looking at her, I mostly think I am the older one.<br />
Her mind is vibrant, open and colourful and always a step<br />
more progressive than mine. Imagine this: I always thought<br />
that my creative mind is a stormy river, but beside Claudia<br />
it appears tender and smooth, more a summer sunny forest<br />
lake.<br />
RFP: The <strong>120</strong> <strong>Pillows</strong> event is a fruit of your friendship. How<br />
did friends and designers CLAUDIA SKODA and JÜRGEN<br />
DAHLMANSS work together on this project?<br />
In a second step, we set up a structure to manufacture all in<br />
<strong>Berlin</strong>, so it is a truly handmade <strong>Berlin</strong> product. Only in the<br />
last 8 weeks, have we understood the final product, made the<br />
first costs calculation and considered to invent a distribution<br />
structure according to these facts. We understood that we had<br />
created textile sculptures with a one-of-a-kind attitude. In the<br />
next step,we want to create a service for interior designers to<br />
make “Playlists” of pillows that we will especially design for<br />
each living situation.<br />
RFP: In pupils’ folklore, putting the school book under the<br />
pillow at night helped them know the lessons the next day before<br />
the teacher; nowadays’ political figures are offered armchairs<br />
equipped with pillows in TV talks; in Oriental countries,<br />
pillows decorated rich people’s houses and the more<br />
pillows they had, the more they were seen as generous; deep<br />
confessions are easily made around a pillow talk; they even<br />
replace a remote beloved person.<br />
What kind of magic do Claudia Skoda’s pillows do?
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JD: I tested some of the pillows on my sofa lately and I can<br />
tell you that the process of the pillows works like this:<br />
SEE ME, HUG ME AND LOVE ME.<br />
They have their own strong personality, but are soft and tender.<br />
To female friends with man trouble, I recommend a couple<br />
of the big size pillows as a good option for the next cold<br />
winter months ahead.<br />
Claudia Skoda: As I wanted to work not only with traditional<br />
knitting and handcraft, Jürgen and I agreed on knitting<br />
pictures for this first project. They are knitted on the knitting<br />
machine on flatbed Jacquard. The challenge consisted most<br />
of all in the concept I designed based on my long experience<br />
in fashion. The pillow is the ideal medium to express my patterns<br />
and imagery which in fashion can be applied only to a<br />
limited extent. Not every person accepts this visual vocabulary<br />
on his or her own body, but they accept it in their homes.<br />
80% of the pillows are made of high-tech cotton yarn with a<br />
nylon thread. I worked on this pillows project from January<br />
until October, including checks in between.<br />
RFP: What inspired your pillow patterns?<br />
Reflecting on the magic: there is another personality in our<br />
pillows different from what you normally find on the pillows<br />
market. They have been invented in another attitude, so their<br />
appearance is different from other products.<br />
It is already my philosophy – that I build and reflect in my<br />
rugs – that the production process is part of the vibration of<br />
the product:<br />
If you only think about producing items to be consumed, you<br />
forget to give them a soul. If you think about product development<br />
with the purpose to match a price point, you forget the<br />
soul. If you ask different questions, they will lead you to different<br />
answers.<br />
This is the magic we have in the pillows, we believe in adding<br />
soul into our products due to how we work.<br />
RFP: What kind of knitting technique did you choose and<br />
why? What materials are the pillows made of? How long does<br />
it take to make <strong>120</strong> pillows? Which were the essential tools in<br />
their creation?<br />
Mushroom No. <strong>02</strong><br />
60 cm x 90 cm<br />
CS: Fashion, music, art and unseen pattern on air.<br />
RFP: <strong>Rug</strong> <strong>Star</strong> has always been very innovative in weaving<br />
techniques and materials. 2016 saw hand-tufted creations<br />
complementing the very well known hand-knotted Tibetan<br />
and Persian weave.<br />
What does it mean for a business to introduce a new technique<br />
in terms of time and arriving at a successful innovation?<br />
What caused this new direction? Which are the advantages<br />
that hand-tufting offers?<br />
JD: In the first 7 years of my work with <strong>Rug</strong> <strong>Star</strong>, I was exclusively<br />
working in the hand-knotted Tibetan area rug. After<br />
7 years of innovation, I felt confident to add a new product<br />
and so, for the next 7 years I started innovating the Persian<br />
hand-knotted rug. It might be my cycles, because for the next<br />
7 years I started with the tuft technique.<br />
Chaos No. <strong>02</strong><br />
65 cm x 100 cm<br />
It is not a hand-knotted rug, as the dimension of the parallel<br />
process of weaving and knotting is missing. In the product<br />
category of tuft, a little gun is shooting the fibre into an exciting<br />
fabric, where the outlines have been drawn and the fields<br />
are slowly filled with different colours, material and mixtures.<br />
As an architect, I always understood the architectural dimension<br />
of rugs. Thanks to the hand-knotted rug, we established<br />
a beautiful system to make customised productions for our<br />
clients all over the world.<br />
The project business sometimes requests bigger volume or<br />
shorter delivery times, for example, for high-end hotels. ››
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Here, the hand-knotted rug of the quality we are producing<br />
has no real market and I was never interested<br />
in quick and cheap hand-knotted rugs.<br />
The tuft is an excellent product to fit into this request<br />
and I am happy that we managed already in such<br />
a short time to set up an amazing collection in tuft<br />
which we will launch in January 2017 in Hannover<br />
at the Domotex Fair.<br />
RFP: Do you consider taking distance online orders<br />
from clients who are not in <strong>Berlin</strong> on the occasion of<br />
the “<strong>120</strong> <strong>Pillows</strong>” Event on the 4th of December?<br />
JD: We managed to build up a distribution system in<br />
30 countries for our customised rugs. I am very positive<br />
that we will manage in the long term the goal to<br />
offer our truly unique pillows in the same way. I have<br />
already requests from the Middle East, China and the<br />
USA. We start setting up the next structure soon and I<br />
am very curious where it will lead us to.<br />
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Birch Dance No. 01<br />
50 cm x 70 cm
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Eden Red Flower<br />
Original<br />
hand knotted Tibetan weave<br />
15 % finest silk
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