Metropolis 3

Metropolis 3 is a rectangular wool rug.‎Zollanvari Fine Gabbehs.‎Persian Gabbehs often depict rural and city landscapes in a naïf and stylised form.‎ Metropolis adds the abstract aspect… solid blocks of colour – rectangles and squares of different sizes seemingly randomly placed but creating a sense of perspective.‎ The glitch effect creates the sense of three-dimensionality.‎ The extensive use of abrash generates palpable textures.‎ This is a modern metropolis, hard-edged, cladded facades, there is nothing naïf or ornamental here.‎The inspiration for this latest collection is an ingenious fusion of traditional Gabbeh iconography and Glitch art – a visual style characterised by using digital or analogue errors for aesthetic purposes, whether that be intentional (that is, “faking glitch” and obtaining a similar aesthetic through design) or by accident (a true manifestation inside of the system without human intervention).‎ The term “glitch” itself originates with engineers and astronauts to explain faults within the technology they were working with.‎ But the visual aesthetic can be traced much further back, to the beginning of the 20th century through distorted forms in cubist paintings, abstract short films and pixel-like rug designs akin to 8-bit video game landscapes.‎ In fact, many antique rugs feature abstract, distorted patterns that seem to predict the glitch movement of later centuries.‎ This new collection, including its marketing and sales, will set off a new Gabbeh revolution.‎ The designs are available in custom and bespoke sizes and colours.‎