Created in partnership with the Museum of International Folk Art and the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mohawk Group proudly introduces Celebrated Heritage:a soft surface portfolio that brings the vitality and humanity of living artistic traditions to a broad range of spaces and projects.
With the goal of creating a visually intriguing and richly textured collection, Mohawk Group’s design team focused their search of the museums’ collections on textiles, basketry, and pottery of the native cultures of the Southwestern US and of Mexico. The resulting patterns explore the aesthetic continuities within these craft traditions and their evolution from ancestral to modern.Partnering with the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture and the Museum of International Folk Art, Durkan designed a striking collection of broadloom carpets and carpet tiles for the hospitality market. The design team drew inspiration from broad and varied cultural resources at the two museums: from Native American pottery and basketry to Japanese and African garments.
While the museum material for the collection was geographically and culturally wide ranging, a common visual theme emerged: the skillful use of negative and positive space elegantly rendered in a variety of materials. With such in mind the Durkan team thoughtfully crafted 8 new patterns. The resulting collection is an homage to the cultural resources and not a replication.
The collection was introduced in May at the Las Vegas Hospitality & Design Expo, the premier trade show and conference for hospitality design professionals, and was awarded the IIDA/HD Expo Product Design Award in the flooring category for carpet and rugs. For more than two decades, the IIDA/HD Expo Product Design Awards program has recognized innovation, function and aesthetic advancements in the hospitality industry.
