Warlamis’ Carpets

Warlamis' Carpets

One of the first objects that Warlamis conceived, designed and implemented in the field of design was carpets. He designed the large collection “THE CARPETS OF VIENNA”, a series with more than 100 different handmade carpets that are woven in India and Nepal using the traditional Tibetan technique and natural raw materials.

Warlamis believed that a carpet that enters the house becomes a center of love and softness that activates vision and touch and expresses a spiritual quality that opens a dialogue with the history of art and the major currents of our time. It thus becomes a carrier of a valuable spiritual energy that helps people to familiarize themselves with the symbols and images of modern language and thus bridge their distance with artists and contemporary art that was so dramatically expressed in the last century.

He believed that a carpet introduced into a living space creates a new balance with the other objects in the environment and renews their relationships, such as the relationship of furniture to each other, furniture to the carpet, to the curtains, to the colors. A balanced feeling in the space of the house has something analogous to the musicality of a symphony that makes complexity and multiplicity possible.

he himself writes...

"Undoubtedly spirituality constantly promotes a tendency to create distance and superiority, to define everything precisely. Undoubtedly knowledge is always in a position of power. But I have a great appetite, to tell simple things, much more from the heart than from the head. I sing more pleasantly. My carpets are small narratives, small, short stories. Each carpet tells its own story and wants to influence the mental mood. Like the setting of a small atmospheric story. My path is precise and without any confusion. Prof. Schwanzer, who built the BMW buildings in Munich, with whom I had the opportunity to collaborate for a long time, was Josef Hofmann's assistant. Prof. Schlesinger, my professor at the Higher School of Applied Arts, belonged to the circle of the Otto Wagner school. This feeling for life, which the Vienna School offers us, I discovered through living people. Also, during the period when I was teaching at the Higher School of Applied Arts, I constantly experimented to take this tradition further…”

E. Warlamis

what they said…

“…Warlamis’ carpets, these illustrated compositions of his, could be seen as the landscape of the Garden of Eden. Like a microcosm, consisting of elementary shapes that resemble the syllables of a coded manuscript, or like something that remained buried for a long time in the depths of our memory. …his materials contain no weight, no effort. Everything comes from the pure and refined aesthetics of the “Viennese School”. The organic is transformed into beauty. Readable and absolutely artistic. And as you see and your gaze remains on these images, their simple truth penetrates you. Works, made for the senses. Images that offer brilliance and vitality fill everyday life with pleasure…”

Warlamis’ Carpets