For artists, there’s freedom in limitless possibility, but what about freedom within a constraint? Does it exist?

Visionary designer Emanuela Frattini Magnusson relishes a rule as a portal to artistic freedom. “I enjoy creating my own rules and deciding how to break them.”

Rules get broken in the Frattini Stripe collection, a new bold and rhythmic line of textiles by Frattini Magnusson for Momentum Textiles and Wallcoverings.

“We have the ‘rule’ of a stripe,” she explains, “but [it is] set in an unexpected way, and with colors pulled more from the worlds of fashion than interior design.”

There are five Frattini colorways: crisp Dakar, overcast Hamburg, Miami with the distinctive line of lime sherbert, fresh Santiago (above), lush Savona, and bright Tokyo.

Frattini Magnusson’s work distills complexity into clarity. She loves working with grids, dots, and lines. But again, even with Frattini Stripe, there’s an interplay of free-spiritedness among the right angles and solid, straight lines, which remind me of property lines of homes right across the street from the beach.

“With The Frattini Collection, Emanuela explores how creativity and variation can thrive within structured systems. This collection disrupts predictability and re-imagines repetition as a space for unexpected—and endless—possibilities.”

This is the fifth collection between the designer and Momentum since 2012.   

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