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Maison&Objet In Brief

Abstract cushions by Tom Dixon

Textile artist Josephine Ortega’s cityscape watercolours are super-scaled and reproduced in a pair of cushions made using rug-making techniques: the watercolours are blown up in scale and separated on graph paper to create a grid. The cushions are a cosmopolitan mix of New Zealand wool hand-tufted by North Indian craftspeople and filled with Danish duck feathers.

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