After studying Architecture and Industrial Design together, Ramón Arnau and Mariola Reyna founded their own multidisciplinary design studio in Valencia in 2018. Their work moves between furniture and lighting design, creative direction, interior design, and ephemeral architecture, standing out for their search for a complex balance between a simple and, at the same time, iconic and timeless character. In their creative processes, the primary purpose is for the design to establish a deep connection with the user and the spaces they inhabit, through proposals that formally move them and transcend fleeting fashions.
In order for the earth-tone gradients of the Ascense rugs to be capable of transmitting the visual effect of rising and reflecting, on the other hand, the essence of Nepalese landscapes, more than 250 different yarn shades are used in its production. This chromatic complexity, combined with a knot-by-knot execution, is what allows for achieving subtle and fluid color transitions, as well as gradients with a high level of visual detail.
The authors of the Ascense collection, the Arnau Reyna studio, sought to create a design that fused symbolism, optical illusions, and dynamism. A way of rising through the richness and potential of color, through gradients that play with the human eye's ability to perceive color, generating a visual effect like ramps that ascend and connect with each other.
Its complex production is possible thanks to the skill of the artisans in Nepal who craft the rugs for our GAN EDITION series, specialized in the hand knotted technique, in which they use 100% New Zealand wool.
The Terra runner rug from the Ascense collection is an interior model that measures 80 x 310 cm and is also available in a rectangular format, as well as in blue tones.
Ascense is a model from our premium line GAN EDITION
With GAN EDITION, we promote the fusion between contemporary creation and ancestral traditional crafts from various cultures. The result is proposals with an exceptional and innovative design, as they are crafted using techniques as meticulous and complex as hand knotted, specific to the artisans of Nepal. Their mastery in the meticulous dyeing of the yarn, thread by thread—through which they achieve more than 200 nuances of color, combined with the manual knotting technique, ensures that each GAN EDITION design reaches an astonishing definition, allowing for fluid and organic color transitions that can only be achieved through the patience of knot-by-knot work.
Manufacturing technique
Hand Knotted. 155.000 knots/m²
Material
Fibre composition: 100% New Zealand wool
Sizes
80x310 cm / 2'8"x10'2"
Approx. total height
9 mm / 0.35"
