Natural Silk, Wool
India, New
2'0" X 3'0" (0.61 m x 0.91 m)
Available: Shipping As Soon As Tomorrow
Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary European Gift-Sized Rug with Arabesque Design
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
By Susan Brown and Alexa Griffith Winton (eds.) — Yale University Press, 2023
Americana, Tapestry & Textile
The first major publication devoted to weaver and designer Dorothy Liebes, reinstating her as one of the most influential American designers of the twentieth century At the time of her death, Dorothy Liebes (1897–1972) was called “the greatest modern weaver and the mother of the twentieth-century palette.” As a weaver, she developed a distinctive combination of unusual materials, lavish textures, and brilliant colors that came to be known as the “Liebes Look.” Yet despite her prolific career and recognition during her lifetime, Liebes is today considerably less well known than the men with whom she often collaborated, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Dreyfuss, and Edward Durrell Stone. Her legacy also suffered due to the inability of the black-and-white photography of the period to represent her richly colored and textured works. Extensively researched and illustrated with full-color, accurate reproductions, this important publication examines Liebes’s widespread impact on twentieth-century design.
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- Measurements: 2'0" x 3'0" ( 0.61 m x 0.91 m )
- Categories: European, Modern
- Classification: European, Floral, Modern/Contemporary
- Material: Natural Silk, Wool
- Origin: India
- SKU: 5028744
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Stories from the European Collection
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
A Guide to Axminster Rugs: History, Craftsmanship, and British Design Heritage
Among the most influential carpet traditions to emerge from Europe, Axminster rugs occupy a distinguished position within the history of decorative arts, architecture, and interior design. Renowned for their exceptional craftsmanship, technical innovation, and artistic sophistication, Axminster carpets represent one of Britain's most important contributions to the global history of textile design. Originating in the historic market town of Axminster in Devon, England, these carpets became synonymous with luxury, refinement, and excellence from the eighteenth century onward. Their influence extended far beyond Britain, shaping carpet production, interior decoration, and architectural furnishing throughout Europe, North America, and the wider world.
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The Art of Bespoke Design by Rug & Kilim: How a Painting, a Fabric, or a Fragment Becomes a Custom Rug
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 commissions, rarely arrives as a specification. It arrives as an object. A client brings in a painting they have loved for thirty years. A designer adores a length of antique silk, or lays down a sample of a document fabric, or produces a photograph of a fresco glimpsed on a wall in Ravenna. The brief is a feeling, held in another medium, waiting to be carried into wool or silk or sometimes, exotic fibres. This act of carrying is the true art of the custom rug, and it is far older and more serious than the word “custom” suggests. It is translation, in the fullest literary sense: the movement of meaning from one language into another, with everything gained and lost that translation implies. It is also, increasingly, the way the most celebrated interiors in the world are made. When AD100 designer Heidi Caillier needed flatweaves for a coastal retreat, when Fawn Galli reimagined a historic Beaux-Arts townhouse on the Upper West Side, when a Jacques Grange penthouse called for a hand-knotted silk carpet, the floor did not come off a shelf. It was translated into being, object by object, idea by idea.
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The Artists Behind European Tapestry: A Guide to the Names Worth Knowing
There is a persistent misconception about tapestry, and it is worth correcting at the outset: that the weaving is the whole of the art. It is not. Behind every great European tapestry stands an artist, the author of the design from which the weavers worked, and the history of the medium is in large part the history of these figures. To collect tapestry seriously, or simply to understand it well, is to know their names. What follows is a guide to the artists who matter most, arranged as the tradition itself unfolded, from the royal workshops of the old regime to the modern revival that made tapestry, once again, one of the most ambitious art forms in the world.
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A Guide to Bessarabian Rugs: History, Design, and Modern Luxury
Within the world of collectible textiles and luxury interiors, few rug traditions possess the quiet sophistication and painterly elegance of Bessarabian rugs. Emerging from the historic region of Bessarabia—an area historically situated between present-day Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine—these rugs occupy a unique position at the crossroads of Eastern European folk tradition, Ottoman influence, Russian imperial culture, and French decorative aesthetics. Unlike the geometric tribal weavings commonly associated with Central Asia or the medallion-driven structures of Persian carpets, Bessarabian rugs developed a distinctly atmospheric and ornamental visual language. Their floral compositions, subdued tonal harmonies, and expansive decorative fields positioned them closer to European decorative arts than purely utilitarian floor coverings.
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Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting
Anyone can acquire a rug. To collect one, to bring it into a serious collection with the confidence that it belongs there, requires a discipline, and that discipline rests on three questions. Across four decades of building one of the most significant archives in the country, this house has come to evaluate every object through the same three. They are the difference between buying and collecting, and they are worth setting down plainly, because they apply as readily to a Safavid fragment as to a signed Aubusson, and because they are the same three questions, at bottom, that a curator at the Metropolitan or a specialist at Christie's brings to any object of consequence.
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A Walkthrough of Legacy, Design, and the Art of Understated Luxury with Sina Nazmiyal
Not many people walk away from an early legal victory to begin again. But for Sina Nazmiyal, the triumphs of successful advocacy never stirred his soul the way a single antique carpet could. For as long as he can remember, rugs have been the ground beneath his life—like tapestries underfoot, and figurative threads binding family, memory, and artistry. His fingertips tracing the indigo threads with reverence, you begin to understand: this is no mere inheritance. This is stewardship—shaped by intuition, forged by introspection, and guided by a sensibility that quietly, but unmistakably, redefines luxury in our time.
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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.
European
Natural Silk, Wool
India, New
2'0" X 3'0" (0.61 m x 0.91 m)
$1,600
Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow
Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary European Gift-Sized Rug with Arabesque Design
"Josh has been able to dredge up some of the rarest and most beautiful carpets for our nerdy and stringent requirements. And we have had a grand time together assembling collections for clients."
— Ralph Harvard, Ralph Harvard Inc.
- Measurements: 2'0" x 3'0" ( 0.61 m x 0.91 m )
- Categories: European, Modern
- Classification: European, Floral, Modern/Contemporary
- Material: Natural Silk, Wool
- Origin: India
- SKU: 5028744
