When the Swedish designer Erik Bratsberg shifted his career from finance to home décor, he wanted to focus on organic forms and materials. “I was allergic to square shapes,” he says. For his first collection, released in 2022, he created a wall sconce out of two curved pieces of epoxy resin. More recently, he challenged himself to translate that design into a rug. The result is a floor covering called Lozza, his first collaboration with the rug maker Layered Stockholm, debuting at Stockholm Design Week. Named after tavolozza, the Italian word for an artist’s palette, the rug imitates the tool’s curved shape. It comes in two tonal color ways, olive and teal, that are designed to work in both cool and warm interiors. To achieve the sinuous shapes, Bratsberg relied on intuition. “When I sketch, it’s so apparent when I’m on a right path with the pen,” he says. He hopes the undulating lines of the rugs will empower people to be more freewheeling with their furniture placement. “I find it easier when not everything is symmetrical,” he says. “It gives more edge, a feeling of something that’s alive.” From $2,020, us.layeredinterior.com.