Vertigo is a kilim designed for Splot by Edgar Bąk, one of the most gifted Polish graphic designers working today. Edgar Bąk’s earlier design for Splot, Chaos (2022), has become a modern classic of Polish kilims.
The Vertigo kilim has an open composition that refers both to the sensibility of op art and to distant echoes of the vibrant Hutsul textiles fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s. True to the designer’s style, a single elementary geometric figure, the quadrilateral, is used to build a complex pattern that seems to create a spatial effect, with a clear method behind its apparent madness.
The art of kilim weaving has long been part of Polish tradition and aesthetics, and since the early 1900s Poland has used the kilim as a medium for contemporary design and artistic expression rather than conventional, repetitive patterns.
Splot’s kilims are handcrafted with two weaving centers of distinctive heritage. This one is woven in Bobowa, near Kraków, where weaving goes back more than 70 years, with a dense, refined texture on a linen warp. The hand-spun wool has a soft bouclé texture that gives subtle irregularity and depth.
When ordering, please specify fringes on both sides, one side or none, and hanging fixtures for vertical or horizontal hanging, or none.
Customization is available on request.
| Dimensions LxWxH | 150x200x1cm (59x79x0'') |
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| Piece Weight (kg) | 8 |
| Production Year | 2026 |
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| Design Class | Open Editions |
