Shiv Roy, Rashid. Rashid, Shiv Roy

a black and white wool carpet with a design of tight overlapping loops by rashid johnson is spread across a living room floor. on the back wall, behind a beige contemporary sofa and above a deeply finished wood credenza is rubens' painting, the tiger hunt, a tangled mass of animal and human bodies in deadly action. the image is from bravin lee, which creates the carpets in limited edition
Rashid Johnson’s Anxious Rug from BravinLee, under what appears to be Rubens’s The Tiger Hunt

I was sure that by now Bravin Lee could not shake me with its awesome artist rugs. And to be fair, it is not the Rashid Johnson limited-edition, ethically hand-knotted wool Anxious Rug that shook me here: it is the setting.

the fictional roy family is seated for the promotion of their tv show succession with exactly the kind of spacing tv promo people like. they are in a dark wood paneled space, with a giant rubens painting of the tiger hunt, a violent and lush depiction of animals and humans in tangled confrontation, in an elaborate but not quite 17th-century correct carved wood frame. this image was put out by hbo in 2018
Some Succession S1 promo image, via the guardian

Because Johnson’s rug is in what I can only assume to be Shiv Roy’s rebound loft, under the buck wild Rubens she inherited at some point after Season 4. The wide angle lens distortion of the painting’s dimensions is also unsettling, but the punch of ditching the frame and rawdawging an Old Master like that more than makes up for it.

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