Milan’s Nonostante Marras is hosting the Zitanpixel exhibition, curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti, from November 9 until January 10, 2017. Stephan Hamel’s love for travel is insatiable, and the exhibition features a collection of carpets that Hamel has personalized with fake fur borders and traditional patterns that have been pixelized. The handmade, wool carpets date from the 20’s to the 70’s, and are prevalently covered in geometric patterns that have animistic, shamanic and talismanic signifigance for various Eastern clans. Their homes begin and end with a carpet’s edges. Hamel’s mother is Tuscan, his father an Austrian diplomat; his curiousity of the world has been translated into works for important design companies, including Edra, Cerruti Baleri and Lasvit. The Zitanpixel collection pays homage to nomad peoples whose carpets are a metaphor for a home that has no permanent address, and yet possesses a calm domestic warmth.