About Caroline
Caroline Arndt is an inspired and curious woman of French - German origin.
She has studied Textile Design at Ecole Nationale des Arts Appliqués in Paris. She graduaded with a “Diplom in Textildesign” at Fachhochschule Armgardstr., Hamburg under the supervision of Prof. Wolf Bauer.
She lived and worked creating new textile design and decorating apartments in Germany, France, Switzerland, Thailand and Austria, where she lives and works now.
For inquiries of any kind, feel free to send an email to ca@carolinearndt.com.
My source of inspiration?
I love to watch the world around me in its magnificence; filled with diversity, with mystery; a world full of people, each with their own stories, their wishes and dreams that I love to imagine.
Reproduced subjects are often annoying and fake: a design-flower seems to be always perfect, but the truth is different; I don’t like this lack of honesty. That is bothering me. In reality colours fade, decay by nature is the transformation of beauty. I take it as my tasks to communicate it.
The leitmotif of my work?
I am looking for the natural movement. In my designs I try to escape from anything frozen, repetitive, boring. The scale is my primary issue, I am focussed on avoiding redundancy.
How to define my work?
I am searching for the tradition of things created in the past. I am trying to provide them a contemporary context. I am seeking for a reinterpretation of the past after a confrontation filled with concealed irony and a high level of empathy.
What is music for me?
Music is always with me, it’s part of my universe. I am always listening to chamber music in my atelier. Do you know The Schubert Quartet in C-dur by Artemis Quartet, the Bach Suite for Cello interpreted by YoYo Ma? During concerts I am having colours jumping in my mind, allowing me to see a parallel representation.
What is cult?
Cult is something natural and individual. It’s a long personal journey to reach something clean and powerful at the same time, capable to touch people around us. That defines the moment when an object becomes a necessity.
