SYMBOLIST
The Symbolist collection is masterfully dyed and hand-woven in Nepal using only the finest of fibers and generations of perfected weaving techniques. Combining fibers of Himalayan Wool, Chinese silk, Mohair, Metallic and Natural Allo, the collection defines our masteries in creating a completely bespoke, heirloom product with a rich variety of texture and design. See our website for more information | interiors.hollandandsherry.com
Photo taken from the series “Seascapes� by Hiroshi Sugimoto
SYMBOLIST
For our new rug collection for Holland & Sherry we were inspired by the late 19th century art movement called Symbolism that involved the poets and artists - Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Gustave Moreau, Gustav Klimt, Odilon Redon and Frida Kahlo. The Symbolists used mythological and dream imagery in painting and writing to achieve a link between the romantics and the surrealists. By creating a purely emotional world that promotes the illogical yet fantastical state of our dreams these artists created art that was shocking for it’s time but still looks dreamy and decadent today. Using these artists as inspiration we created rugs to look like 24-carat gold rain storms, floating marble cubes, icicles brilliantly lit by moonlight, gold metallic wheat fields, silver lightning storms, turbulent water frozen in place, silken scribbles, bronze tree limbs floating in mid-air, acres of broken glass and an electrical storm at sea. We hope to give designers a luxurious and sophisticated yet introspective back drop to create beautiful rooms with.
Doug & Gene Meyer
Photo on opposite by Nicola Whelon
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Unknown Photographer
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Clockwise from top left: Gustav Klimt (detail); Janine Janet; Gustav Klimt (detail); Yves Klein
SYMBOLIST
...gold metallic... ...bronze tree limbs...
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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blue period, 100 knot, silk, allo & metallic thread
rain, 100 knot, silk, allo & metallic thread Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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juxtapose, 150 knot, silk & wool
brilliantine, 100 knot, allo & metallicPhoto thread on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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artifice, 150 knot, silk & wool
“Calm in the half-light Tall branches surround, Let our love be filled by This silence profound. Hearts and souls blend there And senses’ ecstasy, With the vague languor Of pine and strawberry. With eyelids scarce apart, Arms crossed in dream, From your slumbering heart Chase forever every scheme...”
- excerpt from the poem “Muted” by Paul Verlaine
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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“Memory, memory, what do you want of me? Autumn Makes the thrush fly through colourless air, And the sun casts its monotonous glare On the yellowing woods where the north winds hum. We were alone, and walking in dream, She and I, hair and thoughts wind-blown. Then, turning her troubling gaze on me, ‘Your loveliest day?’ in her voice of fine gold...”
- excerpt from the poem “Nevermore” by Paul Verlaine
incense, 150 knot, wool
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Photo by Olivier Le Queinec
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Unknown Photographers
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...broken glass...
Photo Photoononopposite oppositebybyHiroshi HiroshiSugimoto Sugimoto
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mythological, 100 knot, silk & wool
awakening, 100 knot, silk & mohair
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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modernist, 100 knot, silk & wool
“...At length he appeared. I examined all his glasses with curiosity, and then said to him: ‘What, have you no coloured glasses? Glasses of rose and crimson and blue, magical glasses, glasses of Paradise? You are insolent. You dare to walk in mean streets when you have no glasses that would make one see beauty in life?’ And I hurried him briskly to the staircase, which he staggered down, grumbling... ...It made a noise like a palace of crystal shattered by lightning. Mad with my folly, I cried furiously after him: ‘The life beautiful! the life beautiful!’...”
- excerpt from the prose “The Glass Vendor” by Charles Baudelaire
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Unknown Photographer
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Unknown Photographers
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...icicles brilliantly lit... ...silver lightening storms...
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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amber, 100 knot, silk & wool
paradox, 150 knot, silk & wool
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Unknown Photographer
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Clockwise from top left: Odilon Redon; Peter Schuyff; Piotr Kowalski; Joachim Bandau
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...floating marble cubes...
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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north wind, 100 knot, silk, allo & metallic thread
dawn, 100 knot, silk, mohair & allo
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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dorian, 100 knot, silk & wool
slice, 100 knot, wool & allo
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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transcendent, 100 knot, wool
“...Long since, I lived beneath vast porticoes, By many ocean-sunsets tinged and fired, Where mighty pillars, in majestic rows, Seemed like basaltic caves when day expired. The rolling surge that mirrored all the skies Mingled its music, turbulent and rich, Solemn and mystic, with the colours which The setting sun reflected in my eyes...”
- excerpt from the poem “A Former Life” by Charles Baudelaire
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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“...Last night’s wind saw Cupid’s overthrow, Who, in the park’s most mysterious corner, Would bend his bow in guileful laughter, His aspect causing us to daydream so! Last night’s wind toppled him! The marble Shattered with dawn’s breath. It’s sad to see His pedestal, with sculptor’s name a mystery, Scarce legible in the shadow of an arbour...”
- excerpt from the poem “Cupid Overthrown” by Paul Verlaine
dreamscape, 100 knot, mohair & allo
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Photo taken from the series “Seascapes” by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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Clockwise from top left: Ewen Charlton; Susan Derges; Unknown Photographer; Eugene Berman
SYMBOLIST
...turbulent water... ...silken scribbles...
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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contemplation, 150 knot, silk & wool
manifesto, 150 knot, silk & wool
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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decadent, 150 knot, silk & wool
shine, 100 knot, silk & wool
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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poem****
enclose, 150 knot, wool & allo
“...While they sing in a minor key Of all-conquering love and careless fortune, They seem to mistrust their own fantasy And their song melts away in the light of the moon, In the quiet moonlight, lovely and sad, That makes the birds dream in the trees, all The tall water-jets sob with ecstasies, The slender water-jets rising from marble.”
- excerpt from the poem “Claire De Lune” by Paul Verlaine
Photo on opposite by Hiroshi Sugimoto
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