Turkestan presents the new collection “Qashqai meets Bauhaus”, a selection of pieces inspired by the iconic German school of design and the pattern of the Persian Qashqai rugs.
Turkestan presents the new collection “Qashqai meets Bauhaus”, a selection of pieces inspired by the iconic German school of design and the pattern of the Persian Qashqai rugs.
As the Iranian author Parviz Tanavoli points out in his book “Gabbeh, The Georges D. Bornet Collection- Part Two” from 1995, there are a number of common elements between the motifs used by the Bauhaus movement and the ancestral motifs woven by the Qashqai tribes. The author highlights the fact that if the Bauhaus movement had discovered this type of rugs, there is no doubt that they would have been one of their favorite decorative objects.
The idea has been to show some drawings made by the Italian design studio SoFarSoNear for Zollanvari, in which the motifs used by the Qashqai women are combined with those used by the Bauhaus movement. These designs were presented to the weavers for their realization and this collection is the result of that collaboration.
The soul of this collection lies in the treatment of color and the simplicity of the motifs, used both by the tribes and by the Bauhaus movement. This fusion has given rise to a bright and original collection, with geometric motifs to represent the drawings in their most schematic form. Thus we can see in all the pieces elements such as the figure of the lion, the peacock, that of a woman or that of a man.
