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designers are using ancient skills to redefine the
rug as an artwork. Neither shape nor materials are
constraints for avant-garde designer Annette Nix
's installation rugs, which bridge the gap between
conceptual art and design. She says that a rug with
decorative curves can soften a linear, angular room.
Many of her "big statement" rug commissions
have incorporated unexpected materials: white stones
to echo a Zen-like courtyard; cactus on moss-green
rug leading to a swimming pool in a home with glass
walls and staircase; even live fish in a tank in
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'If you want to get your feet wet with a decorative
water feature for your home, commission a "Living
Rug" from artist Annette Nix. Her luxurious
long pile carpets include shallow troughs of water
in which you can keep a goldfish, or float flowers
and candles -a watery oasis suitable for the floor
of anyone's home'.
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'Hoovering demands a
new level of
skill for the owner of this dramatic rug by Annette
Nix. Although recessed in pile, the pebbles are
real enough as are the sunflower heads floating
in a mirrored dish of water. Hand-tufted in pure
wool, the rugs are described by Nix as "conceptual".
They would certainly add wit and style to the mapled
acreage of your urban loft. Those with children
or pets might do better to commission one of her
carpets incorporating slate, perspex or chainmail,
which she uses to equally striking effect'.
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'Designer annette Nix, has turned her attentions
to the floor, creating rugs that are more elemental
art than carpets. Incorporating unusual materials,
such as chainmail, pebbles and pools of water
in her work, Nix turns her rugs into symbols of
issues which concern her. The most recent is a
deep moss-green carpet called Emptiness with floating
candles and sunflower heads at one end and a pebble
cross at the other '.
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''I believe in the work of these
men and women', proclaimed interior designer Christopher
Neville, last year when he curated an exhibition
of18 young designers in Tokyo. Designers from the
'West' show: carpet supremo Annette Nix inserted
a leafy plus sign and an aquarium minus into rich
red wool carpet'.
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