The Enduring Language of Oushak Rugs in Global Design  Oushak rugs, also spelled Uşak or Ushak, stand among the most influential textile traditions in the history […]

Every year, the color world makes its pronouncement, and every year the design world turns to see what it has been given. For 2027, Sherwin-Williams has […]

  Navajo rugs occupy a singular position within the history of American textile art. Woven by Diné artists across the American Southwest, these textiles represent far […]

Anyone can acquire a rug. To collect one, to bring it into a serious collection with the confidence that it belongs there, requires a discipline, and […]

Every great rug begins long before the loom. It begins on the animal, in the place, in the particular conditions that made the fiber what it […]

There is a question that hovers, unspoken, over every fine handmade rug: why does it cost what it costs? It is a fair question, and it […]

    There has always been a quiet kinship between the rug and the book. Both are objects one lives with rather than merely owns. Both […]

For the better part of two decades, the language of luxury was spoken in color and pattern. A room announced itself through what could be seen […]

Something has changed in the psychology of collecting, and it has changed quietly. For most of the modern era, the serious collector acquired for love, for […]

We like to believe we choose our possessions. It is nearer the truth to say that, over time, they choose us back, that the objects we […]

We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light […]

In the dining room of a banker’s house in Brussels there is a wall of gold. Klimt designed it; the Stoclet Frieze, a tree of life […]

There is a particular authority that attaches to an object when one can trace its maker’s hand, teacher by teacher, back to a single revolutionary moment, […]