ANNYSA LaMANTIA, Past Life, 2025

The image shown is a blurred PREVIEW of the work. The full piece will be presented at Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, within the historic spaces of Le Cavallerizze, during Milan Design Week 2026.

ANNYSA LaMANTIA, Past Life, 2025
Edition of 20 + 1 AP
Numbered
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity
Hand knotted rug
Wool, Linen, Lyocell & Silk 
High / Low Cut

Developed for Atelier Bowy C.D., part of Henzel Studio, this work by Annysa LaMantia forms part of The Atelier Editions program, a series of limited textile works created in collaboration with artists, architects and designers. The piece is introduced in the context of Milan Design Week 2026 at Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci, within the historic spaces of Le Cavallerizze.

Titled Past Life, the work originates from LaMantia’s capsule Continuum, a body of research exploring cycles of formation, erosion and renewal. Across the composition, surface pressure, exposed threads and tonal transitions evoke processes of sedimentation, where layers accumulate, shift and gradually transform over time.

Rather than presenting a fixed pattern, the rug unfolds as a field of material change. Subtle irregularities appear across the surface, suggesting areas where pressure compresses the textile structure while other zones loosen and open. Exposed threads interrupt the surface, revealing traces of the construction beneath and introducing moments of fragility within the composition.

These gestures create a landscape of quiet transformation. Tones move through restrained shifts in color, allowing the surface to appear almost geological, as if shaped through slow accumulation rather than deliberate design.

Based between Atlanta and New York, LaMantia’s practice often moves between art, material experimentation and spatial installation. Her work frequently examines how physical processes such as pressure, tension and layering can generate form. Through these investigations, materials become records of time, carrying traces of transformation within their structure.

For this collaboration with Atelier Bowy C.D. / Henzel Studio, those ideas are translated into hand-knotted textile form. Variations in density and surface tension create subtle changes in relief, allowing the rug to behave as both object and terrain.

Presented within the historic spaces of Le Cavallerizze during Milan Design Week 2026, the work introduces a quiet field of transformation into the exhibition space, where layers, pressure and exposed structure are translated into textile form.