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The Finer Things

NO. B175

Christiane Lemieux and Miles Redd (Photography).

Preserved in our design reference library. Inquire to visit and use as a resource.

Clarkson Potter, 2016

From the founder of DwellStudio and the author of Undecorate--the breakout design book of 2011--the most luxurious and comprehensive decorating resource that shows readers how to recognize enduring, quality home goods (wallpaper, flooring, tile, furniture, and more) and use them to great effect. Christiane Lemieux explores the elements of resilient home design. In this beautiful, lavishly illustrated 400-page volume, she covers the traditions, tools, and major players in the home-goods industries so that homeowners learn how to identify the hallmarks of timeless, heirloom-quality pieces. Christiane and dozens of other home-design experts also offer advice on how to live well with these pieces. A visual timeline shows the history of artisan tile, a studio visit goes behind the scenes with the high-end wallpaper company de Gournay, and tastemakers' interiors dripping with style and luxury give timeless decorating ideas. The Finer Things is equal parts inspiration and practical classic.

"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

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Measurements: 0'9" x 0'11" ( 0.24 m x 0.29 m )
Categories: Design, Volumes
Classification: Contemporary, Interior Design
SKU: B175

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October 5, 2026

The Complete Guide to Oushak Rugs: History, Aesthetic Language, and Contemporary Design Use

Oushak rugs, also spelled Uşak or Ushak, stand among the most influential textile traditions in the history of interior design. Originating in western Anatolia, in the historic weaving town of Uşak in present-day Turkey, these carpets are not merely decorative artifacts; they are architectural design elements, cultural documents, and artistic statements that have shaped interior aesthetics across centuries. From Ottoman imperial courts to Renaissance European palaces and today’s luxury residential, hospitality, and gallery spaces, Oushak rugs continue to define a visual language of soft geometry, spacious design, muted tonal harmony, and painterly abstraction. Their enduring relevance places them at the intersection of art history, textile heritage, and contemporary interior design innovation.

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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 30, 2026

Navajo Rugs: History, Art, Design & the Legacy of Diné Weaving

Navajo rugs occupy a singular position within the history of American textile art. Woven by decorative tradition. They embody generations of knowledge surrounding sheep, wool, spinning, natural materials, color, geometry, landscape, community, and cultural continuity. simultaneously as cultural expression, design, craftsmanship, and fine art. the familiar geometric vocabulary. It means understanding the history of Diné weaving, the beyond their decorative presence. Our interest lies in the relationship between weaving tradition, material quality, design intelligence, cultural history and architectural application.

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September 23, 2026

What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs

Every great rug begins long before the loom. It begins on the animal, in the place, in the particular conditions that made the fiber what it is. And among all the wools that have ever been spun into a carpet, few can rival the wool of the Tibetan highlands, a material whose superiority is not a matter of marketing but of altitude, climate, and the unhurried logic of the natural world. The sheep of the Tibetan plateau live at elevations that would defeat most living things, thin air, brutal cold, a growing season measured against a sky closer than it has any right to be. Nature's answer to that severity is the fleece. To survive the plateau, the animal must grow a wool of exceptional density and, crucially, of exceptional lanolin content; the natural oil that coats each fiber, repels water, resists soil, and lends the finished yarn a luster and resilience that lowland wools cannot approach. What is hardship for the animal is a gift to the weaver.

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September 11, 2026

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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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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The Finer Things

NO. B175

Christiane Lemieux and Miles Redd (Photography).

Preserved in our design reference library. Inquire to visit and use as a resource.

Clarkson Potter, 2016

"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

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Measurements: 0'9" x 0'11" ( 0.24 m x 0.29 m )
Categories: Design, Volumes
Classification: Contemporary, Interior Design
SKU: B175

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Stories from the Volumes Collection

The Complete Guide to Oushak Rugs: History, Aesthetic Language, and Contemporary Design Use

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

Navajo Rugs: History, Art, Design & the Legacy of Diné Weaving

What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs

The New Luxury Is Something You Can Feel: Texture in the Modern High-End Interior

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

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