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UN Headquarters | Geneva 2008

One of the most ambitious and prestigious projects that we have participated in was the refurbishment of the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilizations Room in the United Nations headquarters in Geneva. The commission came from the artist Miquel Barceló, responsible for the colossal dome, and the project director, the architect Toni Esteva. We worked closely with them to produce over 80 different rugs to cover the walls of the gigantic 600 square-metre hall. Each rug was hand-made in India, in 100% wool (New Zealand), with the hand knotted technique (supreme quality, 70,000 knots/m2) and in natural colour to contrast with the colourfulness of the dome. The design complemented the work of Barceló, and the rugs also acted as soundproofing for the hall. nanimarquina also coordinated the in-situ placement of the rugs, guaranteeing a comprehensive service.

Centro George Pompidou | Paris (France) 2008

To mark the “No Discipline” exhibition, a retrospective show of the work of the architect and designer Ron Arad in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, we were commissioned by the artist himself to manufacture a 13.11m x 6.21m rug. This had to be made up of various different piles and go with the sofa from the Do-Lo-Rez collection, which the architect designed for the Italian firm Moroso. Following his initial design and adapting ourselves to the safety requirements of the exhibition room, we produced a hand tufted rug with four interlinking pieces. The collection has 5 different piles and 10 different tonalities.

Hotel Silken Puerta América | Madrid 2005

Our first collaboration with Ron Arad in special projects was the production of a number of rugs for the floor which he designed in the Hotel Silken Puerta América in Madrid. In line with the bulbous, rounded forms that define the architect’s style, we produced 32 circular rugs. The design, by Arad himself, was exclusive for this project and the rugs were manufactured in 100% wool using the hand-tufted technique.
We also provided 88 rugs from our Stone-wool collection to decorate the floor designed by Javier Mariscal.

Hotel Hiberus | Zaragoza 2008

The Hotel Hiberus Zaragoza was inaugurated in 2008, coinciding with the Expo Zaragoza, which revolved around the theme of water: the project was entrusted to the Martínez Lapeña-Torres studio of architects. The architect Elías Torres commissioned us to provide a piece that would play with the characteristic blue tones of water. With this in mind, the result was a collage of colours, an immense patchwork of irregular rugs following the layout of one of the hotels interior courtyards.
We produced 11 different rugs in 8 tonal colours (blues, turquoises and purples). Each rug was hand made in 100% wool (New Zealand) using the hand-tufted technique, and measured between
7 m2 and 26 m2.

Palacio de Congresos Kursaal de Donostia | San Sebastián (España) 2006

The opportunity to work with Michael Lin (a Taiwanese plastic artist whose work we have long admired) arose as the result of a project for the international show DFOTO. The commission came to us through Enrique Ordóñez, the president of the Fundación Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografía (COFF), who asked us to manufacture a rug of
this artist for the entrance to the Palacio de Congresos Kursaal in San Sebastián.
For the manufacture of this rug, the design team reinterpreted the sketches that Michael Lin had provided us with, and translated the pantone colours provided by the artist into wool. The result was a unique 6m x 8m rug in 100% wool (New Zealand), which would later be adapted to standard measurements to form part of the nanimarquina catalogue, under the name of the Formosa collection.

Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya | Barcelona (España) 2006

Between 2005 and 2006, the architect Elías Torres undertook the remodelling of the mythical Saló Daurat in the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, seat of the Government of Catalonia, where one of the most well-known works of the artist Antoni Tápias was to be found.
To blend in with the spectacular marble mosaic on the floor of the hall, Torres contacted us for advice on how to reproduce it. Based on a detail of the mosaic, the architect wanted to enlarge it and reproduce it in wool. To obtain the effect of the marble colour, the pantone colours for the wools were selected in situ, and two tones per colour were mixed. We produced a rug with a 7m diameter in 100% wool (New Zealand). The success of the project undoubtedly lay in combining the architect’s idea with the nanimarquina team’s know-how.