antique and vintage rugs
September 4, 2025
Color in rugs has never been neutral. The shades that suffuse carpets — indigo blues, cochineal reds, madder browns, saffron yellows — are more than decorative […]
August 29, 2025
To engage with an antique Peking rug is to step into a dialogue between art, politics, and spatial philosophy. Unlike their Persian or Ottoman counterparts, Peking […]
August 29, 2025
A Picasso or a Lalique needs no introduction — the signature itself becomes shorthand for genius, provenance, and prestige. In the world of collectible textiles, authorship […]
August 29, 2025
Rug of the Week Series III: Power, Pattern, and Politics in French Needlepoints of the Second Empire
There are objects that decorate, and there are objects that define. This mid-19th century French needlepoint rug—handmade in wool between 1850 and 1860—is firmly of the […]
August 21, 2025
Some works enter a room as objects; others arrive as events. Jean Lurçat’s L’Homme does not merely hang—it presides. It does not wait for you to […]
August 18, 2025
In the world of fine art and design, the term period piece is not a casual descriptor—it is an assurance of historical integrity, stylistic authenticity, and […]
August 14, 2025
How Rugs Frame and Define the Modern Open Interior: Defining Spaces From Palace Halls to Loft Living
The open-concept space is the modern equivalent of the grand hall and the ceremonial courtyard—a place where boundaries dissolve, yet zones must still be understood. In […]
August 7, 2025
There are objects you acquire, and there are objects that acquire you. This tapestry by Schneider is of the latter kind—an inheritance of ideas, forged in […]
August 7, 2025
Over the last four decades of collecting, studying, and preserving Kilims and Flatweaves, we have come to understand them not simply as tribal textiles, especially Qashqai […]
