Franco Raggi

Celebrated across the world for his imagination and creative approach to design, Franco Raggi brings a bold selection of patterns and floral motifs to Sahrai’s Designers Selection range of luxury rugs. From smaller pieces to large contemporary rugs, his aesthetic sense is translated into delicate beauty and stunning functional art.

The delicacy of lace inspires the designs in the Franco Raggi Collection. Each concept is developed to translate the intricacy of fine fashion materials into rug design. This disrupts the assumption that rugs are synonymous with a ‘tough’ aesthetic and creates a visually striking and thought-provoking contrast.

DELICATE CRAFTSMANSHIP

Raggi plays with web-like patterns to translate his perception of what the detailed structures represent. The name of each design reflects his vision of the modularity of the lace.

With six exquisite designs to choose from, including the distinctive Trim Flower – with its watercolour style – and Lace Flower – which plays with light and shade – both designs centralise the floral motif. Other key pieces, including Broken Lace and Lace Storm, play with pattern and scale.

These gorgeous silk and woollen rugs offer a deconstructed exploration of material and form, and would be equally at home in modern spaces or traditional rooms.

Celebrated across the world for his imagination and creative approach to design, Franco Raggi brings a bold selection of patterns and floral motifs to Sahrai’s Designers Selection range of luxury rugs. From smaller pieces to large contemporary rugs, his aesthetic sense is translated into delicate beauty and stunning functional art.

The delicacy of lace inspires the designs in the Franco Raggi Collection. Each concept is developed to translate the intricacy of fine fashion materials into rug design. This disrupts the assumption that rugs are synonymous with a ‘tough’ aesthetic and creates a visually striking and thought-provoking contrast.

DELICATE CRAFTSMANSHIP

Raggi plays with web-like patterns to translate his perception of what the detailed structures represent. The name of each design reflects his vision of the modularity of the lace.

With six exquisite designs to choose from, including the distinctive Trim Flower – with its watercolour style – and Lace Flower – which plays with light and shade – both designs centralise the floral motif. Other key pieces, including Broken Lace and Lace Storm, play with pattern and scale.

These gorgeous silk and woollen rugs offer a deconstructed exploration of material and form, and would be equally at home in modern spaces or traditional rooms.

ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Born in Milan in 1945, Franco Raggi graduated from Milan Polytechnic and became an Architect.

Between 1971 to 1975, Raggi was the editor of Casabella magazine. From 1977, he became the Editor-in-Chief of the design magazine Modo – which he headed until 1983.

Responsible for orchestrating the first critical exhibition of Italian Radical Design in Berlin, he later went on to be the Coordinating Secretary for the Visual Architecture Arts section at the Biennale, Venice. This was followed by his role as Manager of the Raccolta del Design Section at the Triennale, Milan, and of the Design Section of the Il Futuro Delle Metropoli Exhibition.

In 1980, Raggi opened an architecture and design studio together with Daniela Puppa and Alberto Meda. He has utilised the mediums of architecture, design, writing and drawing. He is continually innovating through experiments and prototypes to develop his vision further.

In his role as an author, he has travelled across the world, attending conferences and seminars, and taking part in many exhibitions. His work has been exhibited at the BMIAA (Bigmat International Architecture Agenda), the FRAC Museum of Orleans, and the Design Museum of Milan’s Triennale to name but a few.

His lamp ‘ON-OFF’ – designed with Meda and Santachiara – is part of the permanent Design Collection of the MOMA in New York.

Raggi brings a unique, avant-garde and artistic approach to his works. Sahrai has translated this into a tangible form and brought it to life through wools and silks, and the dedicated care of our artisans.

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