CROP Carpets Collection
CROP at Lidmans
Got a picture from some happy Crop Carpets owners.
I’m glad they had the guts to go with a burnt orange color setting. It looks great and those cool Peel Club armchairs, from Variér.
And matches nicely to the oilpainting on the wall. Which looks like a Lindström, by the way …
Stylishly interior designed by Marie Brauner at Studio 21, Norrköping.
Hope they dug the follow up gift!
“MYSTERIOUS CARPETS AND MAGIC LAMPS”
I’m featured in a two spread article in the latest issue of THINK MAGAZINE 009 – The Earth Issue.
We talked about the carpet collection, my latest lighting design, Rendezvous, which I got Award of honour at Green Furniture Award and how I like to work with storytelling in my creations …
Read the article at the official website (www.thinkmag.net) or the short link below;
Thank you THINK MAGAZINE for a nice piece!
Happy Pi-day!
Today we celebrate the important Pi-day!
Well, important I don’t know. But at least it’s another reason to eat a piece of pie and enjoy a pint of beer!
Wikipedias word on π-day;
“Pi Day is a holiday commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 (or 3/14 in month/day), since 3, 1 and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day.“
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In the CROP Carpets Collection you can find a tribute to Pi, our ‘Barbury Castle’-carpet, aka Pi-carpet! Check it out at cropcarpets.com.
Example colors …
See more colors at; www.cropcarpets.com/carpets.html.
And … Read about the story behind the Pi-carpet here! (it’s most fascinating)
Pssst!
If you get the sudden urge to order this unique piece of carpet, you can do so through paiStore.
Utvalt av Mia Masnic
In the latest issue of the interior design magazine Vårt Nya Hem (no 3) you can see a notice of ‘Golden Ball’-rug, from the CROP™ Carpet Collection. Nice. Thanks Mia Masnic and VNH!
A magazine well worth checking out, by the way!
Nils Möbler + Konceptuella möbler
Två profiler inom den moderna möbelformgivningen kommer från Västernorrland. Båda två heter de Nils. Den världsberömde Nisse Strinning är en av dem. Grundaren av Europamöbler, inredaren Nils Lindholm, den andre.
Möbeltillverkning och kända storsnickare har en lång historia i länet. Både hantverksskicklighet och formkänsla ger sig till känna i länsmuseets samlingar. Den produktion som bär Nisse Strinning och Nils Lindholms märke hör hemma i en modernistisk tradition från 1950-, 60- och 70-tal. De bildar en bro mot samtiden och framtiden.
Det fjärde tillägget i utställningen Nils möbler+ visar formgivning där designern tänker utanför ramarna och utvecklar koncept som inte är begränsade av dagens teknik och material. Samtliga möbler som visas i utställningen är formgivna av designers som finns i eller har anknytning till länet. Peter Mäkelä är en av dessa möbelvisionärer.
Peter Mäkelä kommer att ställa ut en digital visualisering på den prisbelönta konceptstolen Angel Chair och en av mattorna, Golden Ball, från CROP Carpets Collection samt ett par nytänkande tapetmönster.
Utställningen har premiär den 11 januari 2011.
Kökstrend 2011
PLAZA Stora Kök & Badguiden; KÖKSTRENDER 2011;
“#9: I vardagsrummet är det inte bara praktiska ytor som gäller. Man måste satsa på mysfaktorn med textil och mattor. CROP Carpet kan du få i vilken färg du vill, för att matcha ditt nya kök perfekt, A-Carpet”
Peters mysterious rug collection (article)
This weekend I got a nice full page coverage in Hem & Fritid. I’m glad my old “home town” find my work interesting …
“He has a lot going on at the moment. The designer Peter Mäkelä recently got the Sundsvall Pride Honour Prize 2010. He got the prize for his pattern collection Pride Collection, that contains wallpapers, tray tables, chairs and other interior details. Part of the sales goes to the important work for HBT-rights. And at the same time he recently launched his rug collection CROP Carpets.”
At the end of november you can see parts of my rug collection at my Grand Finale-exhibition at Norrlandspojkarna. Hope everyone I know will show up and we’ll have a good time together. Can’t wait.
Thank you Anna-Maria Wiklund for a nice piece.
Promo-posters for CROP Carpets
We have several designs stores that is interested in selling the CROP Carpets Collection. Now they are starting to ask for promotinal material. Here’s a collection of posters. A couple of them are going to print. They question is which one’s … Help us! Which one’s your favourite?
A nice spot in the magazine Sköna Hem
In this months (10-2010) issue of the interior magazine Sköna Hem you can find this nice little spot of the CROP Carpets Collection. Interesting swedish side story the brought up. Read it. Any story you recognize? Anyhow, fun and thank you Sköna Hem.
“Formgivaren Peter Mäkelä fascineras av de mystiska cirklarna som dök upp från ingenstans i sädesfält under 1980 och 90-talen. Epidemin började i Enlgand och sommaren 1993 fick Sverige sitt första fall: “Mystisk cirklar i Harplinge kan vara spår av flygande tefat” skrev tidningarna, och ufo-teorierna haglade ända tills konstnärer och studentkompisar trädde fram och erkände sina upptåg. Men Peter Mäkeläs CROP Carpets håller liv i mystiken. TIllverkas i handtuftad ull i flera mönster och en mängd färger.”
Get ‘Alien Crop Mix’ on Spotify
Are you in a croppy mood? Get this cool Spotify playlist!
Put together by the man behind the idea, Sami O.
SPOTIFY LINK: Alien CROP Mix – Bring home the mystery
– Enjoy!
![CROP CARPETS COLLECTION [out on market]](http://www.petermakela.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Insp-brown_room_with_CROP-540x390.jpg "CROP CARPETS COLLECTION [out on market]")
CROP CARPETS COLLECTION [out on market]
Now YOU can bring home the mystery!
Exciting huh!? We’re very excited. The response has been amazing and alot of you have really shown that you like the collection, especially on the Facebook-group. Thanks.
Next market is Great Britain! And the brits really love their crop circles. And we love the brits!
So it’s bound to be a happy connection. Three stores in London are under discussion …
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You can buy the collection here, at the moment:
From the Producer, A-Carpet
See A-Carpets news/press release
Web store; buy through paiSTORE
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The CROP Carpets Collection:
Check out the Facebook group! – Support be a fan!
Get in the mood, check out the ‘ALIEN CROP MIX’ at Spotify
CROP Carpets at NK
Starting today and this weekend at Newport & Downtown, NK, you can get a sneak peak of the CROP Carpets Collection and a chance to talk to the producers, A-Carpet. Welcome by.
A passionate designer with focus on creating a nicer tomorrow through aesthetics, awareness and storytelling. Creates within the fields of graphic, product and furniture design. Challenge me.
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