Art Deco

Art Deco Rugs

Rug & Kilim’s Art Deco archive includes a comprehensive and fully custom-capable celebration of the modern style, with the same thick body and feel in even finer detail, more unusual colors, and more sizes than the typical area rugs that started this movement. 

Since he began as a reputed antique rug collector, Jahanshah Josh Nazmiyal was particularly well known for forecasting and curating antique Art Deco rugs long before they were sought after in his field. The result of this diligence is our Art Deco Collection, which hosts both a wide range of one-of-a-kind antique and vintage rugs as well as a new custom line nearly indistinguishable in its quality from the original 1920s inspirations — Chinese Deco, French Deco, Austrian Deco, Swedish Deco, American Deco, Dutch Deco and many more.

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Stories from the Art Deco Archive

Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.

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On the Changing Nature of Money, and a Quiet Shift in How the World’s Great Collections Are Built
September 9, 2026

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

As seen in Milieu Magazine’s Summer 2025 Issue, designed by Studio Meghan Eisenbergh, features an antique Amritsar rug from Rug & Kilim’s collection.View More >> 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 scholarship, for the pleasure of living with beautiful things, and the question of value, while never absent, sat politely in the background. That arrangement has quietly inverted. Across the last two years, industry surveys have recorded a striking figure: the share of high-net-worth collectors intending to sell from their holdings has fallen from more than half to roughly a quarter. The collector of this moment is not looking to liquidate. They are looking to hold. And they are increasingly treating the objects they acquire not as expenditures but as architecture, as a considered, diversified structure of wealth that also happens to be beautiful.

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The Total Art: Vienna’s Century, From the Gold Frieze to the Contemporary Era
August 28, 2026

The Total Art: Vienna’s Century, From the Gold Frieze to the Contemporary Era

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 branching across marble and enamel and coral, a dancer on one side and an embracing couple on the other, the couple a direct rehearsal for the painting the whole world would later know as The Kiss. But to stand in that room, were one ever permitted to, is to understand that the frieze is not the point of it. The point is that the frieze, the marble, the cutlery, the door handles, and the carpet underfoot were all conceived as a single object by a single mind. The Palais Stoclet, built by Josef Hoffmann between 1905 and 1911 and now sealed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the most complete surviving statement of the idea that organised an entire Viennese century: the Gesamtkunstwerk, the total work of art, in which nothing; not the spoon, not the dress, not the floor, ranks below the painting on the wall.

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Zeki Müren and the Carpet as Self-Portrait: The Pasha Who Designed His Own Floor
July 17, 2026

Zeki Müren and the Carpet as Self-Portrait: The Pasha Who Designed His Own Floor

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 that belong to no classical category. They are not Hereke, not Oushak, not the courtly Ottoman medallion weavings that the connoisseur expects from this geography. They are jewel-toned and abstract, shot through with an abstract confidence, and they bear, some of them, the signed ones, a name woven into the border that any Turk and most serious collectors would recognise instantly. They are the work of Zeki Müren, and they constitute one of the most singular bodies of design the twentieth-century carpet has produced.

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What William Morris, Paul Poiret, and the Bauhaus Each Understood About the Rug and What French Art Deco Proved
May 19, 2026

What William Morris, Paul Poiret, and the Bauhaus Each Understood About the Rug and What French Art Deco Proved

In the winter of 1883, William Morris stood before a room full of wool merchants, manufacturers, and assorted Victorian worthies in a lecture hall in Birmingham and said something that no one in that room was prepared to hear. The decorative arts, he told them, were not decorative at all. They were the most serious form of human making and their degradation under industrial production was not an aesthetic problem but a civilizational one. He had brought, as he often did, an Oriental carpet to make his point. Then he said, in effect: this is what we have lost the capacity to make, and until we recover it, we have no business calling ourselves a culture.

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Rooms of Power: Rugs, Art, and the Architecture of Global Interiors
April 15, 2026

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

Before There Was Interior Design, There Was Placement Long before interiors were styled, they were composed through objects that carried worlds within them. A Mughal carpet was not simply placed beneath a court; it defined the court. A Savonnerie was not an accessory to Versailles; it was an extension of its order. A Chinese Art Deco rug did not decorate early modernist apartments; it translated an entire cultural vocabulary into a new architectural language. What we now call “interior design” is, at its highest level, a continuation of this lineage: the understanding that certain objects, particularly rugs are not passive. They carry with them histories of empire, trade, philosophy, and labor. They are, in essence, compressed geographies.

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How Mid-Century Textile Artists Rewrote the Language of Art and Space Globally: A Lineage of Design Today
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 overlooking Central Park, where glass and steel are softened not by excess, but by a singular woven field. A discreet apartment in Mayfair, where a tapestry holds the wall with the authority of painting. A villa in Cap Ferrat, where modernist furniture and mid-century textiles coexist with the quiet confidence of shared lineage. These are styled interiors. And at the center of many such spaces lies a quiet revolution that began in the mid-20th century, when textile artists stepped out of the decorative margins and into the intellectual core of modernism.

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