PATTERNS Lola

Geometric Pattern Heirloom Textile collected in Central Sulawesi, Palu area Indonesia, 16th century  Technique: Warp ikat, single-ply handspun cotton warp and weft (blue)  The textile is composed of one section with complete weft selvages. The second section has bands of fine linear ikat divided by blue stripes. The ikat design is in a reddish tan color set on a purple-colored ground that is made from an overdyeing of red and blue. The motifs are punctuated by small spots of these two colors; a light red and a light blue.  The textile has a scrolling border at either end. Two matching wide ikat bands have motifs reminiscent of ikat motifs still known among the Toraja and also in Timor. These include a head with extended earlobes, a type of "sekong", i.e., a type of figure with four limbs and a solar plexus, integrated into a spiral composition. The center bands of motifs include interlocking spirals, a continuous triangular or cone shape and a running geometric border. The curvilinear motifs are beautifully articulate the complex imagery. The use of red and blue highlights emphasizes the movement of the design.

Floral Pattern Prada Resort Collection 2010 features floral prints inspired by art nouveau wallpaper. A favourite design motif in the Art Nouveau period was the Iris, for its strong, but sensuous lines. Hisoric Art Nouveau Wallpapers, very much alike the contemporary Prada, whose vibrant colors remind us of African textiles Floral & Unitary Patterns by Marcel Wanders Interior of Fashion store "Villa Moda" in Bahrain.   The heavily patterned interior includes mannequins with mirrors in place of heads.

Marcel Wanders proudly announces the opening of Villa Moda Bahrain. Villa Moda is a multibrand luxury fashion store founded by Sheikh Majed, one of the driving forces behind fashion in the Middle East. For the interior design of Villa Moda, Marcel Wanders foundinspiration in the traditional souk, creating a melting pot of cultures full of surprising.

Marcel Wanders Crochet Chair for Moooi

Floral and crochet  (a process of creating fabric from yarn using a crochet hook. The word is derived from the French word "crochet", meaning hook. Crocheting, similar toknitting, consists of pulling loops of yarn through other loops. Crochet differs from knitting in that only one loop is active at one time (the sole exception being Tunisian crochet), and that a single crochet hook is used instead of two knitting needles.)

Repeating Pattern - optical illusion

VERNER PANTON’S “OPTIK”

Legendary Verner Panton is one of Denmark’s most celebrated furniture and textile designers from the 1950′s and 1960′s. He preferred metal and plastics over wood, which embodied his belief that designers should employ the most advanced technology available. Decades after its introduction in 1968, his all plastic cantilevered chair, The Panton Chair along with other epoch making pieces, continue to influence modern furniture design

Ornament as a challenge to reality Michal Piasecki & Malgorzata Mozolewska:  Could be defined as structural ornament as well because it embeds algorithmic aesthetics into structural logic “Structural ornament arises on the verge of order and chaos, mathematic calculation and chance, but once achieved, it may serve to shape any object you like. It is generated by a purpose-made software that takes into account the shape of a desired object, loads and pressures therein and adds a component of chance so that the structure obtained, while functional, is different each and every time and not entirely foreseeable. Preparation of the software was preceded by painstaking analysis of the history and transformation of ornament over time, helping to precisely channel my search and to find my own way of creating the structural ornament which is firmly rooted in history, inspired by processes seen in nature, but created using modern technologies.” Małgorzata Mozolewska Unitary Pattern Shah Jahan Masjid , Sindh. The Shah Jahan Mosque was built in the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. It is located in Thatta, Sindh province, Pakistan. It has been on the tentative UNESCO World Heritage list since 1993.[1] In the town of Thatta (100 km / 60 miles from Karachi) itself, there is famous Shahjahani Mosque with its beautiful architecture. This mosque was built in 1647 during the reign of Mughal King Shah Jahan, also known as the builder King. The mosque is built with red bricks with blue coloured glaze tiles probably imported from another Sindh's town of Hala. The mosque has overall 100 domes and it is world's largest mosque having such number of domes. It has been built keeping acoustics in mind. A person speaking inside one end of the dome can be heard at the other end. Shah Jahan's"shamsah" design, perhaps the most famous piece of calligraphic ornament in the world, The Mughals were in love with marble as a construction material. Taj Mahal is the evidence; with beautiful inlay and lattice work. The artisans realise that to appreciate that we cannot visit the places, so they replicate similar designs on portable marble plates for the connoisseurs.. This pattern in circular design is a reminder of the Shamsa, a term derived from the Arabic shams (sun). Due to the deep purple colour in the middle of the nucleus, there is depth in the art work. It seems to have bursted, creating the outward patterns on the way. Where the pattern is concerned, the artist uses curves and continuous pattern in each circle, all the way. Its with colours that he has shown skillful mastery. In some patterns he has used golden colour as the filler with touches of coloured paint on the edges and at some places, he has used golden as an outline only. The technique of shading is applied here, which is quite rare on marble paintings. The red, green and purple creates magic with golden playing a major role. It lends it the required richness for a decorative art, tracing its descent from the Augustan age of the Mughal empire..