Hands
Carpet Collection for
Sitap Carpet Couture Italia
2024
Introduced at Salone del Mobile Milan 2024, Hands is the latest project conceived by Elena Trevisan for SITAP Carpet Couture Italia.
The Hands Collection is an unmistakably Trevisan creation: fresh, bold, and sophisticatedly whimsical. Comprising two exceptional rugs—Hands Round and Hands Sinuous—the collection invites us into the realm of imagination, where artistry meets modern design.
In Hands Sinuous, flowing shapes ebb and surge with an undulating rhythm, creating a dynamic interplay of form and space. Fingers dip, grasp, and reappear, weaving a tactile narrative that breathes life into the design. Meanwhile, Hands Round captivates with its hypnotic centripetal energy: superimposed dots radiate a magnetic pull, drawing the gaze irresistibly toward the central point of the carpet. These pieces embody Trevisan’s unique ability to craft designs that transform any space into a dynamic living environment.
Dedicated to the hands’ theme as the connection between thought and action, the Hands Collection reflects Trevisan’s fascination with their symbolic significance. For Trevisan, hands are more than physical tools—they symbolise creation, ambition, and the power to shape our future. Whether gesturing, grasping, or promising, hands encapsulate the energy and potential of human creativity.
Trevisan balances whimsy with elegance through a Pop-Art lens, layering bold geometric patterns across palms to evoke depth, energy, and motion.
Infused with glam chic inspiration and a bold round shape, it redefines the traditional rug aesthetic, offering an elegant alternative to the classic rectangular form. Furthermore, the collection is highly versatile, with customisable sizes and background colours available on request, allowing each piece to adapt seamlessly to individual needs and preferences.
The rugs in the Hands Collection are crafted from 100% pure wool and meticulously handworked to achieve exceptional texture and durability.
It is more than a collection of rugs; it is a Pop-Chic statement. With their magnetic allure, these rugs demand attention, catalyse interaction, and transform interiors into immersive art spaces. Like a Renaissance painting, they captivate the gaze and spark curiosity, blending timeless artistry with contemporary boldness.
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Process
Elena Trevisan’s design process is a testament to her relentless pursuit of perfection and ability to uncover beauty in the often-overlooked details. For the Hands Collection, Trevisan immersed herself in an exhaustive journey of observation and recreation, drawing and redrawing the same subject—hands—countless times. This iterative process, though demanding, became the foundation of her creative philosophy: the belief that only through persistence can something truly unique emerge.
Following this path, Trevisan discovered an extraordinary truth about hands. Unlike any opaque material, hands reflect light in a singularly dynamic way, creating a captivating interplay of light and shadow on the skin. This phenomenon became a focal point of the collection, inspiring patterns that accentuate the delicate rhythms of light as it dances across the surface.
Hands Round and Hands Sinuous energy intensifies through the hypnotic interplay of overlapping patterns. It is a nod to Peter Knapp’s revolutionary 1960s fashion photography for Elle, where lines and circles liberated forms and introduced new chromatic rules, precisely as Pop Art exploded simultaneously.
Trevisan’s work centres on the geometry of elementary forms and investigates the possibility of activating them. In Hands Round, the circle is the prevailing form. The circle is organized in concentric dots of increasing or decreasing width. It emerges from its two-dimensionality by altering the perception of space through an “attractive-expansive and fluid-elastic” pulse, to quote the designer.
Trevisan’s spatial investigation moves form to new dimensions beyond the limits of the rug. The Hands Sinuous, though structured on the dual logic of “positive-negative and above-below”, comes to life in the eyes of the viewer grasping the lines.