Margrethe Odgaard

Textile and colour designer Margrethe Odgaard approach colour as a rich sensory experience. By immersing herself in the intricate interplay of colour, material, and light, she seeks a deeper understanding of how we experience and emotionally connect with our physical surroundings.

Balancing her time between commercial collaborations with renowned companies like Kvadrat, Muuto, Montana, HAY, and IKEA, and an artistic practice rooted in self-initiated research and unique work, Odgaard has showcased her work in solo exhibitions at prominent museums such as Willumsen’s Museum (DK), Röhsska Museum (SE), Designmuseo Helsinki (FI), and Munkeruphus (DK). Since 2023, she has  been associated with the Parisian gallery Maria Wettergreen, where her unique works are exhibited and made available for purchase

Her work has garnered numerous prizes and awards, including the Three-year work grant from The Danish Arts Foundation in 2015, the prestigious Torsten & Wanja Söderberg Prize in 2016 and most recent The Art, Design, and Architecture Prize from the Einar Hansen og Hustru fru Vera Hansens Fond in 2023.

Before setting up her design studio in 2013, Odgaard worked as a printing assistant at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, USA, followed by seven years as textile designer in the French fashion company EPICE. She graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Design in 2005 with additional studies at Rhode Island School of Design in USA.

Margrethe Odgaard Studio
Strandgade 75 C
3000 Elsinore, Denmark

Studio enquiries
hello@margretheodgaard.com

Pepple Rug for Muuto, 2018

MO PR(M) 18

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Bringing a new perspective to the traditional notion of a rug, Margrethe Odgaard’s Pebble Rug for Muuto plays with contrasting materials for a vibrant and sophisticated expression, paired with a modern colour palette.

Crafted with its body in a cooling jute yarn with a distinct, shiny surface, the Pebble Rug takes its name from the soft, fluffy wool loops that gives off the feeling of walking across a pebbled beach when stepping across the rug barefooted. With the fluffy loops popping up like sprouts from the ground, Pebble Rug has an at once graphic and illustrative expression, enhanced by the smoothly rounded corners between the outer jute frame and inner loop area.

Margrethe Odgaard: “Pebble Rug is inspired by the sensuous feeling of a pebbled beach with its diverse and tactile surface, inviting you to take off your shoes and walk across it barefooted. With a handwoven structure that references fashion textiles, the Pebble Rug plays with the contrasting materials of its soft, woolen loops, sitting atop a sturdy canvas base in cooling jute yarn. Pebble Rug brings a new perspective to any space through its woolen loops, popping up from the ground like sprouts in a bed of moss, joined by the distinct woven texture of its surface.”

Hand-woven in India from 100% New Zealand wool in the warp, while the jute in the weft is made from 100% vegetable fibers. 170×240 cm, 200×300 cm, 4 colours.