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Both Sides

Both Sides is a hand-woven runner made of Finnish paper yarn. It is primarily intended as a rug, but it can also be hung on the wall for decoration or to facilitate good acoustics. As the name implies, Merete Erbou Laurent emphasises the duality of the runner. The runners are quite durable and can be used as rugs on the floor, yet they have a crisp use of colours, like a painting. Thus, the runners are both a work of art and a design object. They are woven in a technique that gives the runners two very different sides: They have a monochrome side and a striped side; furthermore, the stripe pattern has an optical effect that changes with the beholder’s point of view. The runners are inspired by the cultivated landscape with the many closely spaced lines of crop plants or crop stubble after the harvest. This effect is amplified by the optical colour sequences that run across the runners. The Both Sides runner comes in a size of 62 x 250 cm in two colour schemes: neon-green and nature. The runner is also available in a size of 83 x 200 cm

Merete Erbou Laurent

b. 1949, Danish Textile Designer

Merete Erbou Laurent graduated from The Jutland Art Academy, textile studies, in 1970 and then studied at the Aarhus School of Architecture, spatial design studies, graduating in 2004. Among her many exhibitions are “Djurslandskaber” at Grenå Kunstforening in 2006, FORMAT in Rundetårn (The Round Tower) in 2001, and “KIC”, Kunsthåndværk i centrum, in 2006-2007. Merete Erbou Laurent often uses paper yarn in her works and incorporates colours in a way that makes the resulting works appear as design objects as well as works of art. In 2005, she was awarded the travel grant from Ole Haslund’s Foundation, and in 2007 the working grant from The Danish Arts Foundation.

img f-mel-04/Both Sides
W: 62 cm L: 250 cm
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img f-mel-04/Both Sides
W: 62 cm L: 250 cm
natural
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