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Mid-Century Modern

Exotic Yarn, Natural Silk, Wool

NO. 23240

India, New

8'10" X 11'10" (2.69 m x 3.61 m)

$14,000

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Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Modern Rug in Beige, Orange and Gray Design

Name: Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Modern Rug in Beige, Orange and Gray Design
Brand: Rug & Kilim
SKU: 23240
Availability: InStock

Hand-knotted in a luxurious blend of wool and all-natural silk, this 9x12 modern rug is a vibrant new addition to the Mid-Century Modern collection by Rug & Kilim. This collection is a bold exploration of 1950s style, innovating through large scale, refined texture, and meticulous graph-work that captures the spirited optimism of the atomic age. On the Design: Beige, orange, and slate-gray hues enjoy a playful sense of movement in a retro-style arrangement of planetary and architectural forms. The composition features a striking interlocking arc and celestial spheres that create a balanced yet dynamic visual tension against the warm neutral field. Keen eyes will admire the silk’s subtle sheen and the precision of the hand-knotted pile that achieves such a seamless, painterly drawing in this large scale. This mid-century modern rug design is further available in additional sizes and alternate colors, both in stock and custom capable upon request. Hand knotted in one of our most reputed long-standing partner looms in India. Custom Capable: All sizes and colors available—inquire for a quote.

"Rug & Kilim has become a go-to for us. The vintage and modern inventory is unlike anywhere else, the team is easy to work with, and the custom program holds up to the same standard."

— Ariel Ashe, Ashe Leandro LLC

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Specifications:

Measurements: 8'10" x 11'10" ( 2.69 m x 3.61 m )
Categories: Mid-Century Modern
Classification: Mid Century Modern, Modern/Contemporary
Material: Exotic Yarn, Natural Silk, Wool
Origin: India
SKU: 23240

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Stories from the Mid-Century Modern Collection

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

November 4, 2026

Signatures, Editions, and the Bolduc on Modern and Rare Tapestries: The Mark of the Masters and Artists

There is a particular pleasure, known to every serious collector, in turning an object over. The front of a great tapestry or carpet is what seduces; the back, and the edges, are what tell the truth. And on the finest modern tapestries, that truth is written in a specific and often misunderstood language, a language of signatures, edition numbers, and a small woven label the French call the bolduc. To read it fluently is to hold the difference between a decorative object and a documented work of art. It is the same literacy that governs the print room and the rare book library, where a collector learns to read a plate mark, a watermark, a colophon. The modern tapestry, elevated to the status of fine art by Jean Lurçat and his circle in the mid-twentieth century, borrowed the apparatus of the fine art edition precisely because it wished to be understood as fine art. To understand the apparatus is to understand the ambition.

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November 4, 2026

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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October 23, 2026

Agra Rugs in Art, Architecture and Global Design Culture

Among the great weaving traditions of the Indian subcontinent, Agra rugs occupy a distinguished position shaped by Mughal artistic refinement, Persian influence, and centuries of decorative innovation. Originating from the historic city of Agra in northern India—once a major center of the Mughal Empire—these carpets represent one of the most intellectually sophisticated textile traditions within global decorative arts. Unlike purely tribal carpets or highly formal European weavings, Agra rugs synthesize multiple cultural vocabularies into a unified visual language defined by monumental scale, refined ornamentation, and extraordinary compositional balance. Their designs draw from Persian court aesthetics, Islamic geometry, Indian botanical symbolism, and architectural inspirations associated with Mughal palaces and gardens.

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October 20, 2026

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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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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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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Mid-Century Modern

Exotic Yarn, Natural Silk, Wool

NO. 23240

India, New

8'10" X 11'10" (2.69 m x 3.61 m)

$14,000

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Modern Rug in Beige, Orange and Gray Design

"For years, R&K has been a favorite source for Kemble Interiors when we need antique, vintage, and custom designed rugs. Their inventory is deep and well displayed online and working in person is always such a pleasure too!"

— Celerie Kemble, Kemble Interiors

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Specifications:

Measurements: 8'10" x 11'10" ( 2.69 m x 3.61 m )
Categories: Mid-Century Modern
Classification: Mid Century Modern, Modern/Contemporary
Material: Exotic Yarn, Natural Silk, Wool
Origin: India
SKU: 23240

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Stories from the Mid-Century Modern Collection

Signatures, Editions, and the Bolduc on Modern and Rare Tapestries: The Mark of the Masters and Artists

A Guide to Axminster Rugs: History, Craftsmanship, and British Design Heritage

Agra Rugs in Art, Architecture and Global Design Culture

The Artists Behind European Tapestry: A Guide to the Names Worth Knowing

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

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

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Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Modern Rug in Beige, Orange and Gray Design

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