Monarch

Monarch reads like an altarpiece: monumental and frontal, it recalls the dynamic draperies of 16th-century Florentine painting, with theatrical folds detached from the body and unfolding like a vertical blossoming. Monarch reverses the narrative: where painting once sought to imitate textile, textile now reabsorbs painting; pigment becomes matter. This rug forms part of a wider meditation on transmission and inheritance. It embodies dynastic continuity through the interlacing of three draperies, conceived as a symbolic script of lineage. Each fold signifies a presence-man, woman, and progeny-united in a fluid movement in which no single form prevails. The ground operates as both structural and symbolic frame. It evokes ermine, the royal fur, emblem of power and authority, the strict power of kings and emperors. It frames, contains, sustains. The composition emerges from an almost sculptural gesture, suspended between tension and openness. Material becomes narrative, allowing a vegetal dynamic to surface-torsion, growth, unfolding. In this work, inheritance is not transmitted as a burden but as an organic thrust: a living continuity, rooted in history and yet still becoming.

Limited Edition of 24 pieces

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