John Booth x FLOOR_STORY
UNITED KINGDOM / AGILITYPR.NEWS / January 08, 2020 / John Booth is one of the UK’s foremost contemporary artists with an unmistakably joyous style. In his collection for FLOOR_STORY, John has bought his cartoonish style and bold, painterly colour layups, fill scribbles and graphic lines to modern hand-made modern rugs.
Left - Daisy Flower, John Booth x FLOOR_STORY, limited edition hand-woven wool, £295
Middle - Marigold Flower, John Booth x FLOOR_STORY, limited edition hand-woven wool, £295
Right - Cosmos Flower, John Booth x FLOOR_STORY, limited edition hand-woven wool, £295
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To capture John’s life-affirming aesthetic in its truest form, Giovanni and Technique are hand-knotted from a wool and viscose mix, the latter adding lustre to create eye-popping colour. Ethically made in Nepal by GoodWeave certified weavers, both rugs are inspired by key existing John Booth pieces.
Technique, John Booth x FLOOR_STORY, hand-knotted wool and viscose, £3500 (160 x 230cm), floorstory.co.uk
The collection also includes a limited edition run of ‘art for the floor’ in a series of three bold and bright flower motifs. Strictly limited to 50 of each, Marigold Flower, Cosmos Flower and Daisy Flower make owning a piece of John Booth art truly accessible. Hand-woven in India from 100% wool, the rugs come supplied with artist’s provenance.
John says of his new collection, “The designs are very much an extension of my usual drawing work, and all of them are motifs and patterns I have worked with before. I chose every single colour yarn personally, by hand, matching them as closely as possible to my original design drawings, so I feel they are a true representation of my work.”
Giovanni, John Booth x FLOOR_STORY, hand-knotted wool and viscose, £3250 (160 x 216cm), floorstory.co.uk
For more information, FLOOR_STORY, 02078 713 013, floorstory.co.uk, info@floorstory.co.uk
About Us
Since graduating with a BA in fashion print design from Central Saint Martins in 2009, Booth has been in huge demand in the fashion and design worlds. He has interned with John Galliano, collaborated with Fendi – daubing bursts of bright colour onto backpacks, t-shirts and holdalls – and created textiles for Zandra Rhodes, as well as lecturing at Central Saint Martins and the University of Westminster. Now working with the art and interiors collective House of Voltaire, John is all about making sure there’s something for everyone and with that we can’t argue.
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