STEPEVI
DEEP COLLECTION
The world is not flat…
Stepevi is alluring the interiors world this season by introducing a new technology with a stunning revolutionary new collection.
Established as leaders in design excellence, Stepevi employs highly technical processes to develop their own yarns, allowing them to produce rugs that are innovative, sophisticated and at the cutting edge of design.
The sophisticated new floor dressing textiles, named “DEEP” employs a highly technical process that creates a unique multi-dimensional rug. Stepevi has coined this technique as Variable Surface Technology’.
DEEP rugs interact with the surrounding space using depth, light and shadow thus creating a unique visual experience from all sides.
Each beautifully designed rug is cut, textured and woven to create a sensual flowing deep surface treatment applied in various designs. The contours of the collection have been constructed to create a multi-dimensional aesthetic.
Stepevi is excited to collaborate for the Stepevi DEEP Collection with the prestigious Milan based Domus Academy Research and Consulting and with a leading edge consumer product design consultancy, Can Yalman Design.
Most of the designs reflect forces and forms of nature from a macro to a micro level. Taking natures landmarks, icons, and formations ECHO series are waves of various geometric patterns that create unique ripple effects that allow for another dimension to take light and shadow thus recreating the space it occupies. FLOW series embody the soul of rivers and grains of wood in creating surfaces with deep wells of emotion. Geometric traditional patterns from kilim making history surface in three-dimensions while defining a new boundary in unconventional forms. The whole series range moves from traditional patterns to natures details in creating a whole new dimension in flooring.
The yarns used to produce the range have an extremely sensual texture, creating a rug that heightens both the visual and the touch senses, simultaneously simple, yet elegant and produced in stunning and sophisticated colour-ways. Use of natural fibers like wool and linen add to the traditional quality craftsmanship at the heart of the Stepevi brand whilst marrying in the most up to date technical developments.
STEPEVI’s ‘Variable Surface Technology’ leaves a mysterious, emotional layered effect on the surface of the rug, taking you on a journey between the dimensions.
This new range reinvents the rug by combining high design ideals with the latest technology and is stores worldwide from January 2009.
About Can Yalman Design
Can Yalman Design is a leading edge consumer product design consultancy providing a combination of innovative design and practical problem solving. They provide design services from concept creation to product development and manufacturing services.
Good design is a life philosophy that affects the user, the manufacturer and the next generation. They strive for responsible design through research, understanding and technology implementation.
They provide concept development, design management, 3-D industrial design, marine and automotive design, mechanical engineering, interaction design, graphic design, virtual prototyping and part for manufacture services.
Can Yalman
After graduating from Parsons School of Design NY with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Product and Furniture Design he returned to Turkey to continue his design education on the field of manufacturing. He has worked with Arcelik/Beko a white-goods and appliance manufacturer for 7 years as a staff and senior designer creating classic products like the Orbital series. In 2002 he started his own design studio, Can Yalman Design where he and his team provide industrial design and engineering, product development, marine design, packaging and graphic design services as well as design consulting services for clients such as Numarine, Arcelik/Beko, RocaKale, Canakkale Seramik, Nurus, Hisar, Inform, Amex and STEPEVI.
About Domus Academy Research and Consulting
DARC is a research and professional consulting center that works on design innovation. Since 1985 it has been developing design researches and projects for companies, public and private associations and international research institutes.
DARC was born during the 80’s as the natural interface of Domus Academy with the industrial world: a structure offering applied researches and design projects, exploring and opening new design fields such as the design of materials, the environmental sustainability of products, the interactive media design, the experience design, the brand culture, the relationship between design and business.
DARC explores and grows competences in new territories of design through activities of basic and applied research (EU and national co-founded research projects) and provides consultancy to the management of companies, to internal Design groups and in collaboration with R&D of companies.
Domus Academy’s activity received the Compasso d’Oro in 1985. DARC projects received international awards such as the IF Hanover Interaction Design Award 97, ID Magazine Interaction Design Award 97, Moebius Multimedia Design Award 97, Honda ICTV Design Award,
Smau Product Design 97.
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