In Focus - Maharam Rugs by Bertjan Pot and Hella Jongerius
Maharam’s rug collection explores plush solids, subdued texture, and bold graphics that offer a residential feel while meeting high-traffic performance requirements. The collection includes archival reissues by Alexander Girard, designs by contemporary collaborators such as Bertjan Pot and Hella Jongerius, and perennial classics from the design studio.
New rug releases from Bertjan Pot
Maharam introduces Pop and Groove by Bertjan Pot—a pair of rugs that extend the Dutch designer’s interests in structure, pattern, colour, and technique to our first rugs designed for indoor and outdoor application.
Heralded by a series of rugs and upholsteries in 2022, Maharam’s collaboration with Bertjan Pot has been guided by Pot’s iterative material experimentation and interest in deriving pattern from structure. Pop and Groove presented the opportunity to bring Pot’s perspective to Maharam’s diverse offering of rug constructions—including handwoven, felted, and knotted solids and textures.
Pop by Bertjan Pot
Composed of a continuous coil of stitched rope, Pop is a rounded rug whose randomised moire offers inherent pattern with vivid colour mixing. Pop’s stitched construction recalls Pot’s rope forms like playful masks and oversized gloves, which evolved from Pot’s initial experiments with the technique of machine-sewing technical rope to make a rug. Maharam’s design studio worked closely with Pot and the resource to create a custom multicolored rope that references marine line Pot prefers for his forms. In Pop's design, the braided rope's houndstooth pattern creates an optical effect that enhances bold colours like cerulean, citron, and orange. The high-energy dyeing process ensures a lasting colour contrast for both indoor and outdoor use.
Groove by Bertjan Pot
Embodying Pot’s approach of applying traditional techniques in unexpected ways, Groove enlists macrame knotting in a bold indoor/outdoor rug with substantial texture. Ropes in high-contrast, duotone combinations are tied with one another and inverted at regular intervals to create a checkerboard pattern with exaggerated visual and tactile interest. The resource’s artisans specially learned the macrame technique to achieve the rug’s unusual structure. Like Pop, Groove’s rope is high-energy dyed to create bright hues that are lightfast for over 700 hours.
New release rugs by Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius is an industrial designer working from her Berlin-based studio, Jongeriuslab. Since graduating from Design Academy Eindhoven (the Netherlands) in 1993, Jongerius has fused industry to craft, high technology to low, and tradition to the contemporary by reintroducing an artisanal hand to the industrial process throughout her work with furniture, ceramics, and textiles. She has developed in-depth relationships with innovative companies, including Maharam, with whom she has now been collaborating for over 20 years.
Maharam has recently added two new designs by Hella Jongerius to the Maharam Rug collection.
Explore the complete Maharam Rug collection here