L'Aviva Home's Latest: From Mud Hut to High Rise - Remodelista
For her latest collection global designer Laura Aviva of L Aviva Home collaborated with a women s craft collective in... ...Hazaribagh in northeastern India transforming their temporary murals painted on the exterior of their mud houses into wallpaper and textiles “The mural painting is part of a matrimonial ritual for the women that takes place in the spring. Every year, the murals are washed away by the monsoons and then started anew,” Laura tell us. Khovar Collection Flower Wallpaper is $12.50 per square foot and each order is custom printed on clay-coated paper to fit the project dimensions. “It’s digitally printed here in the US,” says Laura. The collection features three designs, Leaf, Flower, and Vine, and each is also printed on heavyweight natural linen and available as pillows and yardage. Laura commissioned the designs from TWAC, the Tribal Women Artists Cooperative. The Pillows are 22 by 22 inches with one-inch flanges and come with feather/down-filled cushions; $310 each. A detail of the Vine pattern. A L’Aviva Home design in progress. As Laura explains A canvas of charcoal earth is laid down and then covered with pale kaolin clay Before... ...the top layer dries the artist brushes away the lighter layer with a comb or fingers to create lyrical silhouettes See the full collection at L’Aviva Home.