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NO. 30600

France

4'10" X 9'2" (1.47 m x 2.79 m)

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Signed Jean Lurçat Vintage Aubusson Tapestry with Pictorials, from Rug & Kilim

Handwoven in wool circa 1940-1950, this 5x9 flatweave is a rare, signed vintage Aubusson tapestry from the works of Jean Lurçat, enjoying pictorials and floral patterns with Art Deco sensibilities. On the Design: Jean Lurcat (1892-1966) was a French artist known by connoisseurs for his rare works found today, though few compare to a beauty like this—a pictorial-meets-floral pattern with Art Deco sensibilities. Admirers of the craft will appreciate this for the masterpiece it is, both regal and graphic while of the finest craftsmanship—a meticulous piece for the most sophisticated eye. The design features gold border and beige field underscore insects and florals, leafage, and botanicals in brown, rust and amber tones. Collectors will note his signature (initials I.I.) on the underside panel, thus making it a very rare vintage signed tapestry. Condition: This vintage Aubusson tapestry by Jean Lurcat enjoys good condition for its age and origin, but still ideal for wall-hanging projects given is construction

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Measurements: 4'10" x 9'2" ( 1.47 m x 2.79 m )
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Classification: Art Deco, Aubusson, European, Floral, Geometric, Pictorial, Tapestry/Textile/Wall Hanging
Material: Wool
Origin: France
SKU: 30600

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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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June 12, 2024

A Profile on Jules Leleu and Paule Leleu and their Contributions to the Art Deco Movement

“The story of Art Deco is incomplete without the contributions of Paule Leleu.” Paule Leleu's Art Deco Style This particular rug as inspired by Paule Leleu’s designs enjoys a bold take on mid-century French Deco inspirations unseen in this high-low, texturally engaging approach. The subtlety of the pile variation complements both the colorway and the inviting grid with a smart, sophisticated distinction. Paule Leleu (1906–1987) masterfully infused the Art Deco style into her hand-knotted rugs, characterized by elegant linear motifs and tasteful decorative elements. As the 1940s unfolded, she expanded her design repertoire to include captivating floral patterns. A notable aspect of Leleu's approach was her consideration for her family company's furniture, ensuring that her rug designs harmonized seamlessly with the overall aesthetic. Aligning with the evolving trends of the mid-century modern style, her later rugs often leaned towards a refined minimalism.

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December 20, 2023

A Guide to Jean Lurçat: Pioneer of the Mid-20th Century Tapestry Renaissance

The inauguration of The State Hermitage Museum’s exhibition titled "Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Tapestries in the Hermitage Collection” marked a significant milestone in art history. It unveiled, for the first time, a collection of tapestries with a distinct emphasis on the masterpieces crafted by French artists. The showcased tapestries were not mere artifacts, but vibrant expressions of European tapestry weaving, spanning Historicism, the Art Nouveau, and Modernism. One major tapestry exhibited was Jean Lurçat’s “Blaze of Fire” honoring his innovative designs and use of narrative elements transformed tapestry weaving from a decorative craft into a serious art form that could convey emotion and depth of thought. Rug & Kilim curates masterpieces of culture with the utmost quality of craft and graphic personality like so few in existence. Above is one such masterpiece that we have collected — a signed Lurcat vintage Aubusson tapestry, handwoven circa 1940-1950. The design features gold border and beige field, both of which underscore insect pictorials and florals, leafage and botanicals in brown, rust and amber tones. Collectors will note signatures both on the lower left face of the piece and on the underside panel (initials I.I.).

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Signed Jean Lurcat Vintage Aubusson Tapestry

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NO. 30600

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4'10" X 9'2" (1.47 m x 2.79 m)

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Signed Jean Lurçat Vintage Aubusson Tapestry with Pictorials, from Rug & Kilim

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Specifications:

Measurements: 4'10" x 9'2" ( 1.47 m x 2.79 m )
Categories: Default
Classification: Art Deco, Aubusson, European, Floral, Geometric, Pictorial, Tapestry/Textile/Wall Hanging
Material: Wool
Origin: France
SKU: 30600

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Stories from the Default 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

A Profile on Jules Leleu and Paule Leleu and their Contributions to the Art Deco Movement

A Guide to Jean Lurçat: Pioneer of the Mid-20th Century Tapestry Renaissance

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Signed Jean Lurçat Vintage Aubusson Tapestry with Pictorials, from Rug & Kilim

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