Handmade rugs
November 3, 2026
Every custom rug begins with a question that sounds simple and is not: what does this room want to stand on? The answer, in the finest […]
October 27, 2026
There is a certain kind of design confidence that reveals itself not in the grand room but in the modest one. Anyone with means can lay […]
October 2, 2026
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 18, 2026
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 […]
September 11, 2026
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 […]
August 19, 2026
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 […]
July 17, 2026
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 […]
June 29, 2026
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 […]
June 8, 2026
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 […]
