COVER 82 features event previews—Milan Design Week, ICFF, High Point Market—and reviews—Heimtextil, Maison & Objet, Las Vegas Market—alongside a host of new collections. It looks back at our recent COVER Connect Las Vegas show at tise, and forward to COVER Connect High Point Pop Up in April.  

 

Ahead of Milan Design Week, we talk with family firm Jan Kath Design and preview a collaboration between Amini and R & Company. The Los Angeles-based carpet-collage artist Keith Collins shares star-studded highlights from his career; we celebrate the creative weavings of Hafizia; and we discover how human DNA patterns can become tapestries. A Jamie Stern rug protests against injustice, and multidisciplinary artist Aidan Salakhova ventures into carpet art.  

 

New collections feature from ABC Italia, Ferreira da Sá, Ishkar x Aziza Kadyri, Loloi, Marc Phillips, Feizy, Iwan Maktabi and many more. We talk to interior designers Kelly Hoppen and Isabel Ladd and enjoy Kips Bay Palm Beach. A report details the US market’s shift ‘from uncertainty to discernment’, and we hear how AI can aid business in the rug industry. Conversely, Fabrizio Cantoni of cc-tapis tells us why his company proudly avoids using AI in design. Plus, there’s discussion of the recent IWTO report proving that wool is just as durable as synthetic fibres.