If your decorating style is more whimsical than traditional, you might not have any oriental-patterned rugs at home. But here's a shape that takes the seriousness right out of them.
Stefan Lehner is a designer in the Netherlands who recycles objects into unique furniture. In addition to using industrial and trash materials to create chairs, racks, lighting, even sofas — he makes these tongue-in-cheek carpet hides out of reclaimed rugs. We love how altering just the shape of this traditional rug can change the formal feeling it has on a room and turn it on its ear. If you want to buy one, he sells them via his website En-Fer, but we also like them for inspiration in how to look at the obvious in a surprising way.
Various rugs (and many other unique designs) are available from Stefan Lehner's site En-Fer.
Images: Stefan Lehner
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yikes...
Gosh I hope no wild carpets were harmed in making these rugs!
Rather than a chalk outline of a dead person on the sidewalk at the scene of a murder...
...it's like an outline of a dead animal on the persian rug.
Um, those are awesome!
Um. awful!
lol, these are great :)) fun decor rocks.
Though they're not to my taste, I LOVE the idea. I would never have an animal skin, but I like the tongue-in-cheek style of these.
No thank you.
They look like road kill. And 380 euros? Yikes. This would be a REALLY easy DIY. Go to Chinatown, but a $30 rug, grab a pair of scissors, and cut out your own squashed lizard rug.
Sorry - "buy" not "but" a rug.
I'm not sure about these.
Total DIY. In fact, with an exacto knife, you can maybe make it into any fun shape you want!
I think they're fun. I don't think I would buy one, but I would try it myself with an old rug.
Uh...... no.
Hahahah these are hysterical... Not sure I'd cut up an oriental though!
Fun decor is fun when the thing is actually funny...I don't think this is really that funny.
Too ugly to be funny. The last one looks like a...bear mermaid?
Let's put these in the same category as those fake mounted animal heads/antlers -- i.e., as odious as their "real" counterparts, but in a different way.
I don't really like oriental rugs, but this almost makes it worth a trip to the Goodwill to find a stained, castoff rug to practice on.
Haaaa! I love this idea. I have a spot where I want to put an apricot and blue Persian rug, but I don't want the area to feel too traditional. I'm definitely considering this approach.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/26/53133813_82ef8cd2d5.jpg
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It's clever and fun. Not my taste, but I like how he's thinking.
Alas, the poor dead Mer-Bear.
I think it's a fun idea, and probably it could be done even better than this- he used weird animal shapes.
While I appreciate the concept, these are just plain ugly.
cool. would be cool in human patern as well.