Szabó Anikó

Anikó Szabó is a textile designer from Hungary. She graduated in 2016 from the textile design program at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. Since high school, she has been working with textiles, primarily focusing on weaving. This is why she considers weaving her main profile and aims to explore the full potential of the technique. She believes that for a designer to create quality products, they must understand and utilize the possibilities offered by the technique. Her products include both mass-produced items and works created through manual processes. In her creative process, she always draws inspiration from nature. The structures she creates reflect the natural patterns, impressions, and surfaces she observes. It is important for her to stay connected to traditions, often reinterpreting and further developing existing knitting patterns. The main characteristic of her work is simplicity. She creates both home textiles suitable for mass production and unique textile art pieces, including large-scale textiles. With the pieces she creates, her goal is to bring a small slice of nature into her customers’ everyday lives, whether through a rug, pillow, or even a small kitchen accessory.

About the objects

Fields collection – Forest, Field

Anikó Szabó, the designer rewrote the top view of the fields visually and displayed it in carpets. The carpets were inspired by fields, the top view of which she has always imagined as a huge carpet in nature. “It has always been exciting to watch how the different surfaces of nature alternate. A lawnmower gently undulates or a plot of land currently kept in stubble shows a grim picture. A forest hides depths when viewed from above, and bales of wheat form small islands in the field.”  The carpets are maps of these top view images. She plays not only with colors and the rhythm of their alternations, but also with structures using different weaving techniques and yarn thicknesses. The designer displayed these visions both in carpets and decorative pillows.