Studio Home Rug by Julia Atkinson-Dunn

STUDIO HOME | JULIA ATKINSON DUNN

Julia Atkinson-Dunn is the passionate design lover behind Studio Home, a local platform celebrating the process of making a home your own. As curator of her online art gallery and regular host of "in home" exhibitions, Julia seeks to share her love of purchasing items for her home, be it artwork, furniture or decorative pieces, created by a maker you can connect with.

“In a sense you are purchasing someone elses "point of view" of the world that rings true for you. Colour, texture, shape, subject matter and the artists themselves may be what attracts you, but the biggest hurdle can be giving yourself permission to purchase something that you can't wear, or drive, or use.”

We worked closely with Julia to stay as true to her vision for her rug design as possible. Interpreting her hand drawn design to create something graphic but casual, straying from the need to run perfectly straight lines. The result is a luxurious but fun loving rug that offers a new interactive experience for our customers, presenting a wider choice of colour combinations that allows for true customisation. While the graphic base design remains, customers have the ability to tone it down or up, selecting tones that vibe with their personal aesthetic.

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“Designing Process”

Made with high-quality wool , this hand-rufted rugs produced by Dilana workshop in size 200 x 300.

For enquiries please contact info@dilana.co.nz

Rydges Hotel - Wellington Airport | by Darryn George

The Darryn George collection of rugs at Wellington Airport will take you on a full circle journey.

Arriving at the Rydges Hotel Wellington you will experience the largest ‘welcome mat’ you have ever set foot on. The words “Haere Mai” mean to welcome. Interesting to note is that “Haere” on itself in Maori language means to move, to travel, to come and go. Which is the essence of what happens in an airport.

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Walking onwards, you will become a passenger of the 28 metres runner. Words and patterns become the vessel that transport you over water and clouds, like a flying waka.

The Puhoro pattern represents speed, power, swiftness and agility. In Maori culture it is common to find a Puhoro design on the front of fast moving vessels.

Soft shapes inspired by Maori tukutuku weaving repeat under your feet like a pedestrian crossing made out of clouds and waves seen from above.

The recurring word “Hikoi” embodies the journey taken with confident strides.

Once at the foyer a set of vibrant rugs will indicate that you have arrived. Strong geometrical shapes derived from Tukutuku weavings in Maori meeting rooms provide a nice sight line when viewed from a distance. The line elements on the edges are a continuation of the central runner design.

After the stay at the Rydges Hotel Wellington the “Haere” rug that first welcomed you will now wish you “Haere Ra” - good-bye, farewell.

Rydges hotel foyer rugs.

Words by dilana in collaboration with Darryn George.

A look inside a Wellington residence

R. Killeen and M. Reed featured in a Wellington residence.

Probably one of our favourite interiors featuring two of our most prominent artists.
The eye-catcher wall piece by Richard Killeen and a classic Micheal Reed defines the seating area. We love to see our clients get creative and make full use of these iconic rugs. 

Every generation includes people who curate only the very best quality objects in their environments. The sheer luxury of stepping onto soft wool pile in one’s own home, or walking across a captivating rug design that extends a personal aesthetic, gives a quotidian tactile and visual satisfaction. 

This contemplated tribute to local fine arts and crafts helps express our community’s creative path from one generation to the next. 

Wellington residence.

We have the privilege to work with established artists who each have their own creative style to translate artistic ideas onto textile floor coverings like hand-tufted rugs or wall-to-wall broadloom. 

It can be an interesting challenge to maintain the integrity of the artists’ work when combining it with the extra dimension of colours in textile, increased scale and making an aesthetic and functional product that will be walked on and admired horizontally -most of the time-.  

“In typical New Zealand fashion of having to prove and do everything yourself before something becomes possible - now comes the effort of finding if abstraction is possible for me.”

— Richard Killeen, the blue notebook, p98.

This interior in Wellington features Jar Rug 8 - objects of flight - by Richard Killeen and on the floor Micheal Reed’s classic MRS3 design.

A rug can add the satisfying finishing touch you were looking for. Dilana can help you find the perfect rug for any purpose or interior. 

For enquiries please contact info@dilana.co.nz .