Kangan Arora x Floor_Story
Kangan has worked with Simon from Floor_Story since 2013, designing and producing hand-woven, hand-tufted and hand-knotted rugs. The rugs are exclusively sold through the Floor_Story website and showroom in Shoreditch, East London.
For London Design Festival 2022, she has designed two new collections for Floor_Story; Cosmic Check and Falling Shadows. The rugs are produced in 3 different constructs (Hand Knotted, Tufted and Hand Woven), each made with New Zealand wool and are influenced by architectural shapes and references, from both Indian and Japanese ancient traditions.
See the full collections here.
Harlequin (2022)
Interior Stylist: Hannah Bort, Photographer: Felix Speller
Cosmic Check is a collection of dancing colours and distorted checkerboard patterns, strikingly contemporary yet drawn from the ancient Indian cosmic arts and board games like Moksha Patam (snakes and ladders). The designs are full of movement and motion, they allude to both the circular rhythms of chanted mantras and the eye-catching graphics of modernist op art.
Yantra (2022)
Interior Stylist: Hannah Bort, Photographer: Felix Speller
Monument (2022)
Interior Stylist: Hannah Bort, Photographer: Felix Speller
Falling Shadows draws on arches, openings and architectural forms are picked out with a clean linear aesthetic and simple palette of dual colours. From the gallery to the living room, this collection observes the way light falls and shadows are cast in extraordinary spaces.
Harlequin Runner (2022)
Interior Stylist: Hannah Bort, Photographer: Felix Speller
Yantra (2022)
Interior Stylist: Hannah Bort, Photographer: Felix Speller
Casa (2022)
Interior Stylist: Hannah Bort, Photographer: Felix Speller
Tango (2022)
Interior Stylist: Hannah Bort, Photographer: Felix Speller
Previous Collections (available through Floor_Story)
Loha (2014)
Circus (2013)
Radium Mono hand-woven rug for Floor_Story
Interior Stylist: Hannah Franklin for Crown Paints. Photography: Beth Evans
