«Keep warm!»

The threat of a power shortage looms between the stove and the carpet. The former category astounds us with its variety and masterful design language. Portable and equipped with grilles to protect the hot wires, the whimsical and practical helpers could be operated where needed. The carpet, for its part, seems to look more serenely toward the future. Edgar Allen Poe called it the “soul of the home” (The Philosophy of Furniture, 1840), to which everything else had to submit. Placed on the floor, the carpet delimits a cozy zone that extends visually in all directions. Hung on the wall – and thus completely removed from its utilitarian origins – it shines forth as an artfully woven or knotted picture.