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Lee Alexander McQueen: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Visionary

NO. B378

Tom Rasmussen.

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Smith Street Books, 2025

A beautifully illustrated celebration of the life and work of fashion visionary Alexander McQueen. Alexander McQueen’s creative vision stunned and shocked the fashion world for over 15 years, with his avant-garde theatricality leading many to call him the enfant terrible of British fashion. He created fashion moments that have not faded from memory, like David Bowie’s Union Jack coat from 1996, Sarah Jessica Parker’s tartan Met Gala dress from 2006, and Lady Gaga’s alien armadillo shoes in the “Bad Romance” video clip in 2009. But before he was Alexander McQueen, he was Lee Alexander McQueen, the boy from London who dreamed of becoming a fashion designer. He worked his way up from making suits on Savile Row to starting his own fashion label and becoming one of the youngest designers ever to win an award for British Womenswear Designer of the Year. This book is a celebration of the life, brand, and 36 groundbreaking collections created by Lee.

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Measurements: 0'6" x 0'9" ( 0.18 m x 0.24 m )
Categories: Textile, Volumes
Classification: Contemporary, Fashion
SKU: B378

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October 9, 2026

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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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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Lee Alexander McQueen: The Illustrated World of a Fashion Visionary

NO. B378

Tom Rasmussen.

$30

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Smith Street Books, 2025

"Working with this family-owned team has been an absolute joy. Their communication, craftsmanship, and flawless execution on our custom rugs consistently exceed expectations."

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Measurements: 0'6" x 0'9" ( 0.18 m x 0.24 m )
Categories: Textile, Volumes
Classification: Contemporary, Fashion
SKU: B378

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Stories from the Volumes Collection

A Guide to Bessarabian Rugs: History, Design, and Modern Luxury

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

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