From the house of Jaipur Rugs, comes Inde Rose—an ultra-luxurious collection of carpets by designer and luxury savant Vinita Chaitanya.
Inde Rose is French for India Rose, and much like a rose in bloom is a delicate unfurling of Vinita Chaitanya’s lifetime of observations—of nature, of gardens, of colour, texture and techniques. “I look at nature wherever I am,” says the designer who is also an avid nature lover. But what elevates the Inde Rose collection of carpets into collector’s items is Vinita’s penchant for layering. This manifests in the most charming ways: as print-on-print; as luxurious pastel-dyed silk; as textural contrasts; and most significantly, as carpet pairings that can be layered for maximum effect.
Though named after flowers that bloom linearly over time, Inde Rose’s carpets broaden the horizons in all directions, simultaneously. Through these intricate, multi-layered and layerable assemblies, Vinita reinterprets traditional Indian aesthetic markers through a glamourous and distinctly international lens. On the carpets, India’s intense and jewel-toned colours are refashioned into expressive pastels; elements of its palace architecture become frames; and its profusion of rich foliage becomes the backdrop for processions of artistically caparisoned elephants—and all of this, rendered into opulent reality with Jaipur Rugs’ expertise with material and method.
Inde Rose comprises five coordinated pairings of hand-knotted silk carpets that use Persian weaving techniques. Each pair has one graphic-heavy piece and a visually lighter one that subtly mirrors its palette and patterns. The idea of coordinated rugs has historical and royal precedence when entire rooms in palaces were created using a central theme. But Vinita revives this historic tradition and takes it to the next level with fantastical plays on shape, size, colour, texture and design. Patterns mix with prints and shapes with colours and textures to transform spaces from mundane to magnificent. It is a dazzling idea, and could only have been imagined by someone with a deep understanding of maximalism and multiple decades of holistic design experience.
Inde Rose channels art, architecture, design and nature into larger-than-life art objects that harmonise, and in doing so, creates relationships between spaces, bodies, and the experience of beauty and luxury.
Designed by designer Vinita Chaitanya for Jaipur Rugs.
Photographs by Fabien Charuau
