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SIAMO TUTTI UNO
COLLECTION DESIGNED BY ROBERTA MARI AND
SILVIA ZYLBERMAN PIO FOR CARPET EDITION
‘They call us poor and primitive, but we are
not poor nor primitive. Our wisdom is not
useless. It is the wisdom of the Earth’. The
words of Davi Kopenawa, spokesperson
for the Yanomami people and defender of
environmental and Indigenous people’s
rights, help to illustrate an extraordinary
project conceived from the collaboration
between Carpet Edition and Roberta Mari
with Silvia Zylberman Pio.
Siamo tutti uno (translate is We are all one)
is a collection of rugs conceived to give
a voice to indigenous people, now also
threatened by the health emergency, but
always subjected to violent genocide, slavery
and racism in the name of ‘progress’ and
civilization. With their sustainable lifestyle,
they are the best custodians of the natural
world; defending their rights is therefore also
the best and most effective way to protect
the environment and biodiversity.
Roberta Mari (Milanese of Tuscan origin)
and Silvia Zylberman Pio (Polish-Brazilian),
share cultural fusion and the love of
integration among styles and different
languages, and they were able to design
a collection of surprising visual impact,
capable of communicating an emotion and
telling a story.