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Art Deco

Wool

NO. 34110

France, c. 1950-1959

6'3" X 6'3" (1.91 m x 1.91 m)

$12,000

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Signed Leleu Vintage French Art Deco Circle Rug with Medallion - Rug & Kilim

Made with hand-knotted wool in France and originating circa 1950-1959, this 6x6 vintage French Art Deco rug is an extremely collectible mid-century circle rug from Leleu Decorateur—the work of an iconic family label known for their impact on an iconic design movement. On the Design: Connoisseurs will recognize this as an exemplar of its kind, embodying the same unique principles of French Deco that began with Jules Leleu and continued with his children Paule, André, and Jean when they took over the business in the years that yielded this period piece. This round rug has a green open field hosting a meticulously crafted fretwork border, a hallmark of the refined aesthetic. Geometric patterns, rendered in beige-brown with compelling red accents, radiate outwards from the center, creating a focal point of captivating visual interest. An elegant and luxurious mid-20th century carpet in the legendary quality this bespoke European atelier brought to the Art Deco movement—this piece is a must-have for discerning collectors seeking a piece that encapsulates sheer sophistication and innovation. Condition This vintage Leleu circle rug further enjoys an overall good condition for its age and origin.

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Measurements: 6'3" x 6'3" ( 1.91 m x 1.91 m )
Categories: Art Deco, Vintage
Classification: Art Deco, Circle/Oval/Square, Floral, Medallion, Open Field
Material: Wool
Origin: France
SKU: 34110

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Stories from the Art Deco Collection

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

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 named Celery; a light, airy, herbal green with a yellow undertone, chosen, in the company's words, for a moment that prizes wellness, balance, and connection. It is a soft color with a quiet glow and a faint edge; it pairs, its makers note, with white for something breezy, with cranberry red for something playful, with brown for something elevated. It is, by any measure, a beautiful and intelligent choice. It is also a color the great weavers of the world have understood for four hundred years.

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September 17, 2026

Every Great Collector Owns a Library: On Books, Rugs, and the Knowledge That Connects Them

There has always been a quiet kinship between the rug and the book. Both are objects one lives with rather than merely owns. Both reward the patient return, disclosing more on the tenth encounter than the first. Both are, at their finest, repositories of a civilization's memory; the one held in language, the other in wool. It should surprise no one that the greatest collectors of carpets have almost always been, in the same breath, collectors of the books that explain them. J. Paul Getty kept a scholar's library beside his objects. The Rothschilds, whose carpets now rest in Doha and whose names still move a saleroom, understood a collection as a thing to be studied as much as displayed. To acquire seriously has always meant to read seriously.

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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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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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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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August 29, 2025

Signatures and the Art of Attribution in Luxury Rugs: Collecting with Provenance and Prestige

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 is often elusive. Unlike paintings or sculpture, where an artist’s hand is documented and celebrated, rugs were historically anonymous — woven for use, dowry, or devotion, rather than individual fame. Yet over centuries, a quiet tradition of “signatures in thread” has emerged: marks, cartouches, inscriptions, or motifs that elevate a rug from being a functional textile to an authored artwork. These signatures, whether literal or symbolic, have become the connoisseur’s key to provenance, prestige, and value.

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Art Deco

Wool

NO. 34110

France, c. 1950-1959

6'3" X 6'3" (1.91 m x 1.91 m)

$12,000

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Signed Leleu Vintage French Art Deco Circle Rug with Medallion - Rug & Kilim

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Specifications:

Measurements: 6'3" x 6'3" ( 1.91 m x 1.91 m )
Categories: Art Deco, Vintage
Classification: Art Deco, Circle/Oval/Square, Floral, Medallion, Open Field
Material: Wool
Origin: France
SKU: 34110

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Stories from the Art Deco Collection

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

Every Great Collector Owns a Library: On Books, Rugs, and the Knowledge That Connects Them

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

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

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

Signatures and the Art of Attribution in Luxury Rugs: Collecting with Provenance and Prestige

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