DESCRIPTION
Description
Hugo refused to choose between floor and wall, between craft and art, between ancient symbols and invented languages. These hand-hooked pieces exist in the space between definitions—which is exactly where interesting things live.
MARKET DISCOVERY = on a rainy Saturday morning in Carpentras. The kind of find that happens when you're hunting through stalls while everyone else is seeking shelter—Hugo's hand-hooked rebellion rescued from the indifference of a provincial market. One tapestry conjures vegetal forms in motion, the other deploys cryptic graphics that could be prehistoric cave paintings or tomorrow's alphabet.
MATERIAL DEMOCRACY = at its finest. Lay them beneath a low table, hang them in a hallway, or let them migrate between floor and wall as the mood strikes. Wool that's been hand-hooked doesn't care about your rules—it just wants to be touched, walked on, lived with.
FOLKLORIC FUTURES = without the nostalgia trap. Form meeting tradition, but twisted through a contemporary lens that makes the ancient feel urgent again. Tactile, irregular, undeniably alive—the way textiles should be.
Step on this art (carefully).
Hugo refused to choose between floor and wall, between craft and art, between ancient symbols and invented languages. These hand-hooked pieces exist in the space between definitions—which is exactly where interesting things live.
MARKET DISCOVERY = on a rainy Saturday morning in Carpentras. The kind of find that happens when you're hunting through stalls while everyone else is seeking shelter—Hugo's hand-hooked rebellion rescued from the indifference of a provincial market. One tapestry conjures vegetal forms in motion, the other deploys cryptic graphics that could be prehistoric cave paintings or tomorrow's alphabet.
MATERIAL DEMOCRACY = at its finest. Lay them beneath a low table, hang them in a hallway, or let them migrate between floor and wall as the mood strikes. Wool that's been hand-hooked doesn't care about your rules—it just wants to be touched, walked on, lived with.
FOLKLORIC FUTURES = without the nostalgia trap. Form meeting tradition, but twisted through a contemporary lens that makes the ancient feel urgent again. Tactile, irregular, undeniably alive—the way textiles should be.
Step on this art (carefully).
Hugo refused to choose between floor and wall, between craft and art, between ancient symbols and invented languages. These hand-hooked pieces exist in the space between definitions—which is exactly where interesting things live.
MARKET DISCOVERY = on a rainy Saturday morning in Carpentras. The kind of find that happens when you're hunting through stalls while everyone else is seeking shelter—Hugo's hand-hooked rebellion rescued from the indifference of a provincial market. One tapestry conjures vegetal forms in motion, the other deploys cryptic graphics that could be prehistoric cave paintings or tomorrow's alphabet.
MATERIAL DEMOCRACY = at its finest. Lay them beneath a low table, hang them in a hallway, or let them migrate between floor and wall as the mood strikes. Wool that's been hand-hooked doesn't care about your rules—it just wants to be touched, walked on, lived with.
FOLKLORIC FUTURES = without the nostalgia trap. Form meeting tradition, but twisted through a contemporary lens that makes the ancient feel urgent again. Tactile, irregular, undeniably alive—the way textiles should be.
Step on this art (carefully).
DESIGNER
JR Hugo
CATEGORY
Art
DIMENSIONS
81 x 126 cm
REGION
France
CONDITION
Excellent vintage condition. Minor expected wear; ready to be used on the wall or floor. Backing intact and edges stable.
material
Wool, hand-hooked on canvas base
STYLE
Primitive modernism meets folkloric abstraction
PERIOD
Late 20th century (circa 1980s–1990s)
REGION
France
DIMENSIONS
81 x 126 cm
DESIGNER
JR Hugo
material
Wool, hand-hooked on canvas base
CONDITION
Excellent vintage condition. Minor expected wear; ready to be used on the wall or floor. Backing intact and edges stable.
PERIOD
Late 20th century (circa 1980s–1990s)
STYLE
Primitive modernism meets folkloric abstraction


