Clashing Carpets

Martin and I have a weak spot for watching Escape to the Country – a TV programme in which home-seekers are shown a selection of country properties in their budget that purport to measure up to their requirements. Part of the fascination is the chance to look at other people’s taste (and I use the word advisedly) in interior furnishings. The highpoints come when a particularly violent scheme elicits whimpers of horror from us. Such schemes usually centre around a carpet whose design burns into the retina.

 

Now Dan, over at fulminate//Architectures of Control, draws our attention to carpets that are deliberately designed to be unsettling. Fascinating stuff.