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The four new rug additions to the Sketches From The Edge collection featuring Want To Show You Something. -
Crack Some Eggs. -
Slinky. -
Two Steps Back.
WORDS Jo Buitendach PHOTOS Jamal Nxedlana; Supplied
Design duo Dokter and Misses floor with their new graphic rug collection.
Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin, better known as Dokter and Misses, are stalwarts of the South African design community – but that doesn’t mean they intend to rest on their laurels. The pair have recently added four new graphic rugs to Sketches From The Edge, a collection that originally launched at Decorex in 2022. The additions are like energetic doodles in a sketchbook, and draw inspiration from found objects and snapshots.
“The collection adopts a free-form sketchbook approach, where we give ourselves complete freedom to take an idea and develop it into a piece,” Katy explains. “We wanted it to be a bold, punchy, almost obnoxious collection that somehow creates unity through wildly disparate creative origins.”
Not taking themselves too seriously, these saturated blue and red floor coverings boast playful names such as Two Steps Back and Crack Some Eggs. The rugs were created using sketches from Johannesburg and New York, which were then layered, distorted and zoomed in on. “For me, these pieces express the joy of seeing the special in the ordinary and the mundane,” says Adriaan. “It’s about saying ‘yes’ to ugly and being open to being surprised. ‘Hello! I feel uncomfortable – but alive…’”
The striking collection was initially produced for “Social Objects”, a group show by eight artists and design studios at TIWA Gallery in New York that was curated by Kombi – a gallery that presents contemporary furniture and art objects from South Africa to New York. The arresting images of the rugs, themselves a work of art, were taken by photographer Jamal Nxedlana in downtown Johannesburg. | dokterandmisses.com
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