Elis - 83 x 120 cm

BELA & ELIS bring pure joie de vivre into every living space!

"With my designs I want to inspire people, stimulate their imagination and awaken emotions." For Zurich textile designer Sonnhild Kestler it is important to tell new stories with her work, but also to reactivate what the viewer has already experienced: "Abstract, archaic forms create pictorial figures or scenes that awaken personal memories and thus come to life. BELA & ELIS should also become a canvas for your own stories and thus the emotional heart of the room.

Handcrafted unique pieces – sustainable and fairly traded

Sonnhild Kestler first develops the color and shape in careful, detailed work: "Compositions that I meticulously put together in a kind of paper collage unfold intuitively and playfully. I mix the colors that I print on the paper specifically for this purpose, experiment with a vocabulary of shapes and react to the design on a 1:1 scale." Once the color mood is harmonious, the paper and wool colors are perfectly matched and the carpet goes into production in Kathmandu: Here the sheep's wool is hand-spun and BELA & ELIS is made row by row according to Tibetan knotting tradition.

Lively room atmospheres – individually and playfully combinable

Thanks to its texture, Tibetan wool not only provides a uniquely soft feel, but also a healthy living environment - and thanks to the expressive motifs, it creates a lively room atmosphere: BELA & ELIS are an ideal eye-catcher in the living room, are happy to lie at your feet in the bedroom, welcome guests in the hallway and enrich daily life with their sheer presence. The two figures can be playfully combined, liven up the room as a pair head to head or individually, and develop their individual effect depending on the location.