Ingrid Dessau

Ingrid Dessau: Fifty Rugs a Year The Contract In 1954, Kasthall's CEO Håkan Reis offered Ingrid Dessau a position as the company's first chief designer. The terms were specific: ten new rug designs annually, each produced in five colorways. Fifty unique variations per year, delivered on schedule, for as long as the contract held. It held for twenty-four years. The arrangement was not artistic patronage. It was industrial production planning. Kasthall needed a continuous pipeline of designs that could move from sketch to loom without requiring the factory to retool for each piece. Dessau's task...