With a design brief based on archetypes, Tola Ojuolape set out two distinctive personal profiles to really get to grips on who might inhabit the space.
The common thread between the two personality types is an overarching interest in the arts as well as travel and culture. Planning a luxury show home for the rental market presents the common hurdle of adding personality without changing the infrastructure of the space. The answer is in the furnishings, where beautiful materials and objects, including the Casa rug designed by Kangan Arora, create an immediate sense of identity.
We always love seeing creative ways that a rug can bring brilliant design to life as well as added functionality to a space. Tola Ojuolape has totally nailed this, by using the shaped monochrome rug as a headboard, that not only centres the bedroom, but also helps with acoustics and sound absorption. The use of the 100% wool rug has so many great benefits, making it the gift that keeps on giving. Wool is a natural fibre which can positively influence insulation, temperature control and regulating sound. The shaped design creates large-scale artwork, a contemporary piece that instantly adds personality and draws the eye to something spectacular.
The design itself is part of Kangan Arora’s Cosmic Check, a collection of irregular shapes and distorted checkerboard patterns drawn from Indian cosmic arts and board games. The designs are full of movement and motion as they allude to both the circular rhythms of chanted mantras and the eye-catching graphics of modernist Op art.