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Kyle Bunting’s Stunning Atlas Collection
In addition to suggesting a compendium of human knowledge, the term “Atlas” connotes formidable strength, the kind required to support the heavens, in fact, and the personage who had to bear this burden.
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The evocation of rugged masculinity is apt for the collaboration between master of hair-on-hide, Kyle Bunting, and famed photographer Douglas Friedman, who spent time together “shooting guns; talking about art, music, and Texas; shooting more guns; and drinking tequila.”
![Image of landscape around Marfa, Texas with barbed wire fence, sagebrush, and sandy hills in the distance](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Exterior-1024x683.jpg)
Atlas is a collection of custom rugs, but more than that it’s the artistic output of the above meeting of the minds, for Bunting designed it as a reflection of and tribute to Friedman’s aesthetic, as expressed in the interior and exterior of the photographer’s picturesque ranch located in the vast and spare terrain around Marfa, Texas.
![Atlas Collection dining room with rug and large rectangular table with chairs covered in shaggy animal skin and view of desert outdoors](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Dining-Room-1024x694.jpeg)
The Atlas collection captures the clash between, and unlikely synchrony of, Friedman’s ranch and the surrounding desert landscape. Just so, dynamic geometric shapes and splashes of hyper-real color —reflective of the land’s different hues in the changing light—imbue these deeply textured rugs.
![Atlas Collection overhead partial shot of rug with dark tones, blue, black, white, and yellow](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Dark-tones-1024x685.jpeg)
And every rug tells a story, highlighting the curios and relics that reflect Friedman’s varied tastes and extensive travels—“balancing minimalism against the playful and lavish aesthetic dramatically displayed in the photographer’s eclectic Texas retreat.”
![Atlas Collection living room with very large square rug with muted tones in living room with large black sofa, black chairs, and bookcase off to the side](https://media.designerpages.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/muted-tones-1024x697.jpeg)
The rugs are available in square, rectangular, and circular profiles, in a variety of dimensions and colors. See Kyle Bunting to find out more about the Atlas Collection.
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