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 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, […]

From the Rug & Kilim editorial and curatorial archive In April 1939, the SS Normandie docked in New York Harbor carrying, somewhere in her hold, a […]

In the showroom of Hüseyin Kaplan, in the Sultanahmet quarter of Istanbul beneath the minarets of the old city, there are more than five hundred carpets […]

The Dutch did not look abroad for the floors of their palaces. This is a small fact with large implications. When the courts of Europe sent […]

The most sophisticated rooms in America are being furnished, increasingly, with an object its makers never intended to sell. The Andean frazada, a handwoven kilim produced […]

There are artists who weave cloth and the ones who weave ideas. And then there are artists; rare, serious, working at a register that most practitioners […]

There is a moment, familiar to anyone who has stood inside a Jeni Ross installation, when the room stops being a room. Not because the work […]

There is a particular kind of looking that a great tapestry demands, slower than painting, more physical than sculpture, closer to reading than to seeing. The […]

The real spatial dimension does not get painted, it gets woven. Begin with hanging a piece such as Signed Vintage Lia Cook Tapestry slightly off-center on […]