Nordic Knots Highlights Scandinavian Design Heritage With Modernist Collection
Honoring the Swedish ‘Funki’ (functionalist) design movement, which advocated for a new visual language embracing streamlined utility and modern materials.
Nordic Knots has unveiled its Modernist Collection, a new rug lineup inspired by the Swedish Funki design movement of the 20th century. Responsible for forging a novel aesthetic characterized by functional minimalism and innovative industrial processes, the architectural movement’s essence is captured in six new designs made from plush New Zealand wool.
Tying the Modernist Collection together is the attention to symmetry and clean geometric shapes, reflecting the refined vision of Nordic designers like Edvard Heiberg, Arne Jacobsen and Alvar Aalto.
Standing out with lively shades of pink, blue, green and white, the Modern features a black grid with miniature square accents for contrast. Geometric patterns also appear in varying scales on the Pavillion with its bold black lines, and the Grid with its slightly offset squares.
Elsewhere, Swedish architect Andreas Martin-Löf was tapped for a range of rugs that draw inspiration from his personal space and surrounding architecture in Norr Mälarstrand, Stockholm. Martin-Löf’s design breaks from the stark geometry of the collection with the amorphous 03 rugs, comprising off-set half-circles in green and cream.
For a more subtle option, the engraved Lux 2 rugs are made in solid shades of burnt orange, golden brown, gray, and white. Cut with a two-millimeter difference in pile height, the rugs reveal a multi-directional composition of rectangles with a tonal effect.
Shop the full Modernist Collection now at the official Nordic Knots web store.
