Study
The Winter garden
Before thinking of the garden as a place in which to experience nature, it must first be considered an abstraction with a precise philosophy behind it. Before placing the seeds, a garden has to be studied carefully; its story has to be told in order for its structure to acquire that narrative fascination linked to antique cartographies. The fabrics of the Study Story are inspired by the more abstract idea of the garden, which transforms into veritable geometry, expressing a unique narrative fascination and a precise neutrality. The garden becomes a cultural space rich with symbolism. The fabrics of this Story feature lingering designs with graphic complexity in the incessant search for a neutrality that allows colors to be expressed in an elegant and delicate way. The Winter garden is a place of peace and contemplation where color has a faint, almost imperceptible presence. In this Story’s fabrics, dark shades are akin to natural pigments; a soft gray takes on rosy ash tones; bark becomes icy; a lighter blue takes on the aspect of washed stone. These nearly neutral fabrics feature a nearly palpable graphic and geometric complexity in the presence of light madras checks that form a delicate effect, retracing the concept that: “Behind every garden is a project”