Hands
Carpets Collection for
Sitap Carpet Couture Italia
2024
Presented at Salone del Mobile Milano 2024, Hands is the latest carpet collection designed by Elena Trevisan for SITAP Carpet Couture Italia.
The Hands Collection is a distinctive expression of Trevisan’s design language: bold, fresh, and playfully sophisticated. Comprising two designer rugs—Hands Round and Hands Sinuous—the collection explores the intersection between imagination, contemporary design, and artistic expression.
Hands Sinuous unfolds through fluid, undulating forms that ebb and flow across the surface of the rug. Elongated fingers emerge, grasp, and dissolve into rhythmic movement, creating a tactile visual narrative that animates the space.
In contrast, Hands Round is defined by a hypnotic centripetal force: layered dots converge toward the centre, generating a magnetic focal point that captures and guides the eye. Both rugs demonstrate Elena Trevisan’s ability to transform interior spaces into dynamic, living environments through design.
Dedicated to the symbolic power of hands as the link between thought and action, the Hands Collection reflects Trevisan’s ongoing fascination with gesture and meaning. Hands are not merely functional elements; they embody creation, ambition, and the human drive to shape the future. Through gestures that grasp, promise, or communicate, the collection celebrates the expressive energy of human creativity.
A refined Pop-Art aesthetic defines the collection's visual identity. Bold geometric patterns are layered across palms and fingers, creating depth, movement, and visual tension while maintaining an elegant balance between playfulness and sophistication.
With its round and sinuous shapes, Hands reinterprets the traditional rug, offering a contemporary alternative to the classic rectangular format. The collection is highly versatile and fully customisable, with bespoke sizes and background colours available on request, allowing each rug to adapt seamlessly to different interior design projects.
Crafted from 100% pure wool, the rugs are meticulously handworked to ensure exceptional texture, durability, and quality—hallmarks of high-end Italian carpet design.
More than a carpet collection, Hands is a Pop-Chic design statement. With their magnetic presence, these rugs invite interaction, command attention, and transform interiors into immersive artistic spaces. As a Renaissance painting reimagined through a contemporary lens, Hands blends timeless artistry with bold modern expression.
Hands is protected by Registered Design Patent®.
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Process
Elena Trevisan’s design process is defined by a relentless pursuit of precision and a deep sensitivity toward details often overlooked. For the Hands Collection, the designer embarked on an intense journey of observation, interpretation, and repetition, drawing and redrawing the same subject—hands—countless times. This rigorous, iterative approach forms the foundation of Trevisan’s creative philosophy: the belief that uniqueness emerges only through persistence and disciplined exploration.
Throughout this process, Trevisan uncovered an essential and unexpected quality of hands. Unlike opaque surfaces, hands interact with light in a uniquely dynamic way, generating an ever-changing dialogue between light and shadow on the skin. This visual phenomenon became central to the project, inspiring graphic patterns that amplify the subtle rhythms created by light as it moves across the surface.
The energy of Hands Round and Hands Sinuous intensifies through the hypnotic overlap of patterns and shapes. This visual language references the revolutionary fashion photography of the 1960s, particularly the work of Peter Knapp for Elle, where lines and circles liberated form and introduced new chromatic rules—echoing the rise of Pop Art during the same period.
At the core of Trevisan’s research lies the geometry of elementary forms and the investigation of their ability to activate space. In Hands Round, the circle dominates the composition, structured through concentric dots that expand or contract in width. The form transcends its two-dimensional nature by altering spatial perception through what Trevisan describes as an “attractive-expansive and fluid-elastic” pulse.
This spatial research pushes the form beyond the physical limits of the rug. Hands Sinuous, while structured around the dual logic of positive and negative and above and below, comes alive through the viewer’s gaze. The lines are not static; they are grasped visually, activating movement and depth through perception. In this way, the rug becomes an immersive design object—one that exists between surface, space, and visual experience.