8'0" X 10'0" (2.44 m x 3.05 m)
"Rug & Kilim has been a pleasure to work with from the very start of our relationship. Not only is their service outstanding, their inventory of one of a kind vintage rugs is unparalleled."
— Alan Eckstein and Margaret Goddard, Somerset House
A standard since our inception upheld across every acquisition,
transaction, and delivery.
45+ Year Old Institution
More than four decades of expertise and stewardship, under the leadership of our Principal, Jahanshah "Josh" Nazmiyal.
Favorable Return Policy
Our return policy is 48 hours upon receipt allowing you to confirm the purchase in your space with confidence.
Product Warranty
Each rug is hand selected or produced through the most reputable sources under the direct supervision of our Principal.
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Reliable worldwide delivery handled with care, precision and constant communication.
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Attentive, knowledgeable guidance before and after purchase from our dedicated team of specialists.
Long Term Care
We stand behind every piece we place and remain a resource to our clients for the lifetime of their collection.
- Measurements: 8'0" x 10'0" ( 2.44 m x 3.05 m )
- Categories: Default
- SKU: 19632
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Stories from the Default Collection
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
Time, Labor and the Lasting Value of the Handmade Rug
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 deserves a serious answer, one that has nothing to do with markup and everything to do with time. So, what a hand-knotted carpet actually is? It is a surface built one knot at a time, each knot tied individually by hand around the threads of a loom, by a weaver working with a knife and a pile of dyed wool. A fine carpet of substantial size contains not thousands of these knots but hundreds of thousands, in the very finest pieces, more than a million. A skilled weaver, working steadily, ties a few thousand in a day. The arithmetic is unforgiving and it is illuminating: a great large carpet represents not months of labor but years, sometimes the sustained effort of several weavers working in concert across the turning of seasons.
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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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The New Luxury Is Something You Can Feel: Texture in the Modern High-End Interior
As featured in NEPTUNE Papers 10, Rug & Kilim’s custom hand-knotted silk carpet appears within a private Manhattan penthouse designed by renowned French interior architect Jacques Grange.View More Press Articles>> 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 from across it like the saturated wall, the bold motif, the statement made at a glance. That language has quietly changed. The most considered interiors of this moment no longer announce but invite. And the medium of that invitation is not color, nor pattern, but texture, the one quality of a room that cannot be photographed, cannot be reproduced on a screen, and cannot be fully understood until one is standing inside it.
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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 Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation
Antique 17th Century French Beauvais Tapestry with Floral Vase - Rug & Kilim, NO. 36829 We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light caught the threads. This was the Antique French Beauvais Tapestry (SKU 36829). It was handwoven in wool, with natural silk accents, circa 1700. When you look at something like that, you do not just see fabric. What you see is the garden of wool and dreams. The precise interlacing of the wefts gives a picture of a gigantic floral vase placed atop an architectural entablature. The botanical imagery is absolutely mesmerizing. There is so much wealth and mystery to it all.
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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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R&K Image Studio
NEWThe R&K Image Studio is a new visual workspace designed to present the Rug & Kilim collection with clarity, restraint, and precision — in your space or any space you imagine.
This tool allows you to view, refine, and prepare imagery drawn directly from the pieces in our archive. They can be visualized cleanly, isolated thoughtfully, and adjusted for presentations, proposals, and private viewings, without altering the integrity of the original work.
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8'0" X 10'0" (2.44 m x 3.05 m)
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"Rug & Kilim's inventory spans the past four centuries and includes everything from ethnic and tribal patterns to European designs, as well as a host of Art Deco, abstract and understated tone-on-tone offerings, all in a vast array of materials, weaves and sizes."
— Tony Freund, 1stDibs Editorial Director
- Measurements: 8'0" x 10'0" ( 2.44 m x 3.05 m )
- Categories: Default
- SKU: 19632
