3/3/2024 0 Comments Rhythm heaven interview dogeThere are carpets in shopping malls and classrooms, and even in the changing rooms of my swimming hall. Instead, I grew up with insulated houses and woollen socks, and, to me, the carpets remain a uniquely British phenomenon. You would think my cold home country of Norway would appreciate carpets the same way as Brits do. How they clean these floors is still a mystery to me. Dried up liquids, late-night conversations, and the dirt from underneath endless pairs of shoes. 1 I can’t help but think about all the remains of long nights buried in these carpets. Black and red Art Nouveau roses in Somerset, movie reels in a Paisley-esque pattern in an old cinema-turned-pub in Gloucester. Finding them in pubs is normal – whether this entails the tartan floors of my local one or the customised floors at the pub franchise Wetherspoons, where each of their 800 locations across the UK is dressed in customised carpet designs, inspired by the history of the building. Every British home seems to own a carpet, and everyone seems to have an affinity for it too. When I moved to Glasgow a year ago, I moved to the country of carpeted floors. ![]() Emma Aars, The Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 2023.
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