Sound panels and Berber traditions are two far-away worlds that surprisingly meet in Nicolette Brunklaus' project. The Dutch designer spent four weeks in an artist's residence in Morocco where she had the chance to work with local crafts women using a traditional manual tapestry technique in a small studio in the medina of Sefrou.

Once back in Amsterdam, she applied what she learned in that small Moroccan medina to a contemporary design project, later presented during Dutch Design Week at Piet Hein Eek Gallery. We're talking about Acoustic Tapestries, a collection that reinterprets the traditional isolating panels with geometric abstractions and evocative architectural spaces. It's a project with deep chromatic choices hand-made in Morocco and finished with machines in the Netherlands. An aesthetically interesting solution that is also highly functional.

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The tapestries, 100% wool, can be tailor-made and produced in different sizes, perfectly integrated with any given architectural project and meeting sound panels’ needs. What characterises them are simple geometric blocks and contrasting colours with asymmetric compositions.

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