ARMADILLO: GAIA

GAIA marks a new chapter for Armadillo, where technical mastery meets a deeper enquiry into form and texture. Shaped in dialogue with Catalonian artist Carla Cascales Alimbau, the collection draws on her sensitivity to organic imperfection while extending Armadillo’s craftsmanship into uncharted territory.

Through this collaboration, Armadillo and Carla have created a collection displays rugs as landscapes, they are their to be inhabited not just to be observed. The rugs create a gentle connection to nature and to ourselves; a space for presence, for grounding, for quiet beauty. 

Using wool, jute, silk and linen the collection highlights each materials expressive language and behaviour. Combining these materials with earthy colours and hues based in nature and our bodies the rugs ground us in something primal and universal. 

The Gaia collection beautifully combines Carla’s artistry, Armadillo’s broader vision and the skill of the artisans in India, to create a series of rugs that are technically advanced, push boundaries in the market and are a testimony to Armadillo’s ever-evolving artistic enquiry and innovation. 

Carla Cascales Alimbau describes ‘Working with the artisans and weaves was incredibly humbling. there’s a quiet wisdom in craft that speaks of time, tradition, and dedication. Their knowledge, precision and patience opened my eyes to a way of making that is both rigorous and poetic. Every knot, every thread, carries intention nothing is rushed, nothing is accidental.’ 

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