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Mutazioni rugs by Lanzavecchia and Wai are the Daily Pic by Blake Gopnik

Half-life Design

The Daily Pic: Lanzavecchia + Wai design rugs that imagine post-meltdown bugs.

Blake Gopnik

Updated Jul. 11, 2017 10:00PM ET / Published Jul. 08, 2013 5:04PM ET 

(Courtesy Lanzavecchia + Wai)

The new “Mutazioni" carpets, conceived for NODUS by the Italo-Singaporean design house called Lanzavecchia + Wai, recently went on sale at Rosana Orlandi’s space in Milan.They represent imagined new species of bugs, caused by fallout from our biggest nuclear accidents. This area rug – perfect, maybe, for a fission scientist’s den – portrays Tacua Fukushimae. Hard to know its scale (I like to imagine it frying-pan size) but its asymmetries speak to its origins.

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