Rugs with a message: don’t sweep plastic waste under the carpet
Alvaro Catalán de Ocón designs “products that can be like manifestos” – including these geographically accurate rugs mapping some of the world’s most polluted rivers.
Spanish designer Alvaro Catalán de Ocón is egging me on to walk, roll and even stomp on one of his prototype 3D rugs. He’s sure he doesn’t mind?
“Of course not. Step on it!” urges the bespectacled 46-year-old, on the other end of a FaceTime call rather than in the room with me because he’s recuperating from COVID-19. “It’s a rug.”
