Radi Designers · Paris

Le TapisVu

An illuminated rug that reacts to the sounds in the room, like a VU meter.

The rug sometimes leads a thankless existence: flat, it gets walked on, and lacking volume it doesn't belong to the club of design objects, flirting instead with mere ‘decor’. Le TapisVu, however, is compact, like a colourful, animated figure that asks you to respect its presence.

Its design draws on geometric representations of sound phenomena: a wave spreading out from a point of origin. The leaf shape comes from an asymmetric expansion, like a spreading stain tracing contour lines.

The object steps out of its discretion by reacting to ambient sounds, as if it wanted to take part in the life of the room, like a dog wagging its tail. The louder the sound, the more the light spreads across the rug, like a VU meter. A network of LEDs is invisibly built into the fibre.

Design

Radi Designers

Location

Paris