El Espartano is an Argentine family business that has been dedicated to designing, developing and manufacturing rugs for 70 years.

We worked on a design for their Alexa collection, a collection of hand-woven rugs using 100% pure virgin wool yarns. Number 5 is a composition created with counterforms and remains of collages. It is an example of the cold-assembly work we do in the studio. We utilize this technique for both sketching and making designs. In the analogous process, chance pays an important role and unintended results are generated that give a certain freshness to the compositions.