Design Week Roundup
What went down at our showroom...
The biggest yet
This year, for London Design Festival 2026, we wanted to celebrate the variety of approaches to rug design that shaped our 2026 collaboration collection. The ‘Configurations’ display, created in partnership with Sancal furniture, was curated by the interior designers at trifle* and brought together five designers from a range of disciplines. Mediums including painting, collage, mural art and architecture met weave, which formed the foundation of each designer collaboration, including Coco Lom, Les Keepers, Lakwena, POoR Collective and House of Quinn.
Finding joy in playful settings was at the heart of this installation. Yes.colours Electric Blue and Friendly Peach were used to accent 3D shapes placed throughout the space, and we looked to Kirkby drapery to section the furniture configurations. These shapes and textures amplified those found in the woven wool rugs.
It's not too late to see the display! We have a slightly scaled down installation with our 2026 rug collaborations and Sancal furniture until January 2027.
Photographed by Mark Cocksedge
Photographed by Mark Cocksedge
Photographed by Mark Cocksedge
Photographed by Mark Cocksedge
Photographed by Mark Cocksedge
Photographed by Mark Cocksedge
Photographed by Mark Cocksedge
Photographed by Mark Cocksedge
We cut some shapes with GF Smith
Throughout the week, we invited visitors to respond to the display by collaging their very own rug design through an analogue process of cutting and gluing GF Smith Colourplan papers. We find that collage lends itself to rug design because it invites experimentation with playful arrangements of colour, composition and texture.
Conversations around the table reflected how much we’re craving the use of tools and materials to create. They also opened up discussion and insight into how different forms of mark-making could translate into different rug piles, textures and constructions. It was a truly collaborative atmosphere, where design enthusiasts, emerging creatives and established designers mingled and shared ideas.
We’re so thankful to everyone who came to get involved, and we were spoiled for choice when selecting one winning design to be made into a rug. It was a tough decision, but a lovely process to go through each piece (and thank you for the lovely messages on the back).
We settled on the Confetti collage by Jess Grunow. We loved the attention to detail in the intersecting colours, the overall composition, and the textured details in the dots, which we think will translate brilliantly into a rug!
Confetti collage by Jess Grunow
On Display:
Coco Lom
East London Lines
POoR Collective
Power in Evergreen
POoR Collective
Power in Tangerine
House of Quinn
Arrangement
COCO LOM
East London Lines
Within this tufted rug, Coco Lom’s speckled shapes and signature contrasting colour blocking in deliciously cooling colours of tonal blues and greens will pull you into its soft touch, inspiring moments of spontaneity and reflection alike.
Les Keepers
Jogakbo
Bringing nature closer to daily life, the patterns within the Jogakbo rug design evoke the feeling of exploring a wild garden. An entanglement of hand-painted geometric lines overlap and harmonise, the breaking patterns add an off-beat rhythm and character into interior spaces.
Lakwena
HOME PEACE
Introducing the uplifting energy of Lakwena’s art into interiors and looking to wool poms as the medium of finessing a rug design, the HOME PEACE rug showcases a graphic language into a tufted rug which brings both a bold and grounding energy into a space.
POoR Collective
POWER
POWER, where a rug becomes a visual metaphor for collective energy, its pattern formed in reference to the intersecting lines of deck access city tower blocks that are part of the social and visual landscape of London.
House of Quinn
Arrangement
Constructing the artwork for the Arrangement rug began by looking back at traditional design features like borders and central motifs and interpreting these through the textural marks of paint brush strokes. After the initial mark making response to these elements often seen in rugs, they were repositioned into a series of compositions, which led to an assemblage that balanced the contrasting elements.
