Fatboy Rug Blue/Black Textile. Dimensions: 230 × 160 cm. Carole Baijings
is a Dutch designer who works with a rich, chromatic palette. Exhibited in the
most prestigious museums (the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Rijksmuseum
in Amsterdam, etc.), Carole Baijings' work stands out through an extremely
balanced use of colours and interplays of graphical lines. Coming straight from
a watercolour palette, the Colour Blend rug sports a blend of joyous intensity,
remarkable restraint, poetry and geometry. The Colour Blend rug collection
started with a few sketches… Designer Carole Baijings randomly drew paint
lines over a sheet of paper, and was pleasantly surprised by the colour
combinations spontaneously created. „It's impossible to know in advance what
the perfect colour combination will be.“, explains Carole. „When I'm
drawing, I love being surprised by the colours created in the blends: sometimes
strong and powerful, other times warm and soft. Together, they form a new whole
that is as unexpected as it is logical.“. The rugs feature these thick,
irregular lines and unpredictable colour palette. As the lines all fuse one into
the other, it appears as though other colours emerge from the image. The
rug's ultra-soft material brings life to every aspect of Carole's sketches,
with soft lines added to the overlaid colours. With each step that you take, the
colour changes, making the rug slightly different every time you see it.
Powerful, colourful and ultra-soft, the Colour Blend rug is sure to put smiles
on faces. Carole Baijings on the use of colours in her work: „Unlike the rules
of language in which every combination of words into a sentence tells a story in
the end, colour does not have any grammar. All kinds of things have been written
on the theory of colours and the way in which they relate to each other and feed
into each other. Only music serves as a model for us. Music, which through its
ability to create combinations, transgresses all kinds of laws and rules and
frees itself as a work of genius. Like a score, I formulate my own colour
grammar. Not to forget, I like to constantly shake up the norms, so that
materials and colours complement each other and come together to produce a
harmonious whole.“
