Arte Espina
06 // Arte Espina are a team of five international designers based in Venlo in the Netherlands: Marie-Cécile Ortmanns (France), Shobha Modha (India), Sandy van Dooren (Netherlands), Astrid Müller (Germany) and Sabine Börger (Germany). Three of the team studied Textile Engineering, one studied Textile Design, and one is responsible for Colouring. Their clients have included Bo Concept, El Corte Inglés and Zara Home. Inspiration comes from their daily impressions, trend books, design fairs and art exhibitions. For the future, the team hope to continue designing popular rug collections.
Design Heroes: Marimekko, Designers Guild, Jan Kath
Colarado
The traditional chevron is varied here by drop-stepping the diagonal stripes so they do not meet symmetrically in the middle.
Technicolour
L-shaped corners make an interesting version of a stripe. The decreasing size leads the eye to the middle of the design. Most Arte Espina rugs are environmentally friendly and are either hand tufted or printed.
Kinetic
Sharp angular lines cross each other to form interesting shape arrangements. All designs are created by the Arte Espina Design Team. All copyrights are held by the company Arte Espina B.V.
Chess
A square grid pattern is broken up by removing some squares and segmenting others with curves. Acid yellow is striking against the dark ground.
Under Construction
Fun with arcs makes this an interesting composition. Arte Espina develop their designs mainly with real textile colours and design software (NedGraphics, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop), but they also work with hand-drawn sketches, collages and mood boards.