Hasta La Ideas

Mauricio and Sebastián Lara, who design projects as Eos Mexico, present “Sima Pashtun,” a rug design that translates a traditional pattern into a technologically-enabled optical illusion. The visually striking result is the rug equivalent of a mash-up, combining global influences and ancient allusion in a contemporary design.

While the weaving technique originated in Tibet some 3000 years old, the Odabashian Trading Corp. executed the Lara brothers’ design earlier this year for a current exhibition at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City.

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