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Contemporary rugs

October 2, 2026

The Long Life of a Green: On Celery, Color of the Year, and the Four Centuries of Weaving That Anticipated It

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 […]
September 9, 2026

On the Changing Nature of Money, and a Quiet Shift in How the World’s Great Collections Are Built

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 […]
September 6, 2026

How The Objects Around Us Define Us: An Interior As A Self-Portrait

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 […]
July 10, 2026

Deventer, KVT and the Dutch Carpet: The Workshop that Wove for Royalty

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 […]
April 29, 2026

How the World’s Most Serious Art Spaces Are Rewriting the Rules of the Floor and the Contemporary Home

There is a room at Hauser & Wirth Somerset; the gallery that occupies a converted farmhouse in the English countryside, where Pipilotti Rist installations have shared […]
April 15, 2026

Rooms of Power: Rugs, Art, and the Architecture of Global Interiors

Art, Architecture, Literature, and the Placement of Rare Works Across the World’s Most Refined Interiors The Room as an Act of Understanding At the highest level, […]
April 2, 2026

How Mid-Century Textile Artists Rewrote the Language of Art and Space Globally: A Lineage of Design Today

There is a particular kind of interior; rare, deliberate, and intellectually composed, where a rug does not decorate, but makes it art in itself. A residence […]
March 27, 2026

A Rug & Kilim’s Guide to Rug Patterns in Interior Design: A Study of Persian, European, Scandinavian, Art Deco and Modern Styles

There are rooms – rare, disciplined rooms, where nothing is accidental. A salon overlooking Lake Como, where a 19th-century Aubusson anchors parquet floors beneath frescoed ceilings. […]
March 16, 2026

Designing Across Eras: Persian, Art Deco & Scandinavian Influences for the Modern Interior

There is a quiet misconception in contemporary interiors: that rugs belong to style categories, that they serve periods, that they follow trends. At Rug & Kilim, […]
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