With his Pigments collection for Radici, Italian designer Marco Piva explored the concept of colour as a “living material” through the layering and overlapping of tones to create captivating gestures and graphic traces.
Balancing expressive freedom with ordered compositions, the Pigments collection from Radici features five printed rugs that spread blots, veils, dots and interlacings across the textile surfaces. Each of the individual designs — Grain, Cadence, Layer, Relief and Undertone — are richly tonal, with shades that range from natural green, beige and sand to more saturated tones like burgundy.
Inspired by the subtle dimensions of pigment itself, Grain blends precise and ordered elements across the surface to create an original texture. Grain shits perception with distance and light to reveal a surface defined by unexpected nuance.
Cadence interprets colour as a sequence, controlling repetition to create a measured rhythm. Colours are arranged into defined rectangular fields like a checkerboard, resulting in a surface that is both vibrant and balanced.
Exploring the subtle and delicate dimension of colour, Undertone is refined and elegant with a presence that reveals itself gradually. Subdued brushstrokes are precisely arranged across the surface to create a sophisticated gesture of measured and intentional cadence.
The other two patterns are: Relief, with an optical effect that presents a relief on the printed textile that combines solids with voids and light with shadow; and Layer, which explores colour layering as a generative process that sequences from top to bottom and left to right.
All five rugs featured in the Pigments collection from Radici are made from printed polyamide (nylon) and are available in a range of natural and more vibrant tones, including Brown, Lime, Cinnamon, Cream, Royal Red and Bordeaux.
