About Alberto Levi Gallery
The Alberto Levi Gallery opens in 1997, following a family tradition that dates back to the nineteenth century. Focusing at the beginning in antique carpets and textiles, it specialized in 20th Century Art Deco and Modernist rugs as well as in tribal rugs from Morocco, Turkey and Persia distinguished by a Mid-Century Modern sensibility. The gallery has an extensive selection of rugs by Modern Masters such as, among others, Ivan Da Silva Bruhns, Michel Dufet, Otto Preutscher, Frank Stella, Andre Arbus, Jules Leleu, and Verner Panton. Working quite closely with the interio...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Contemporary Open Field Meadow Rug in Aqua Green by Alberto Levi Gallery 8 x 10
Located in Milan, IT
Meadow represents our latest collection of minimalist rugs, hand-knotted by employing hand-spun Ghazni wool from Afghanistan. Ghazni wool has a soft and silky texture and is distingu...
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2010s Indian Minimalist Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Anatolian Minimalist Striped Perdeh Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Perdehs were employed as tent dividers by the Kurdish tribes of eastern Anatolia, creating partitions inside their dwellings. Each flat-woven wool panel is individually dip-dyed with...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Antique Green Background Khorassan Carpet with Dancing Animals
Located in Milan, IT
A fine and rare antique Khorassan pictorial carpet depicting a panoply of animals arranged in horizontal rows on a pistachio green background, appearing as caught in a ritual dance. ...
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Antique 1880s Afghan Khorassan Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Bakhtiari Tacheh Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tacheh are saddle bags employed by the people of the Bakhtiari tribe. These are woven in wool by means of different techniques, which include interlock tapestry, dovetailing, weft fl...
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Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Mocha Brown Tibetan Rug with Brocade Pattern 6 x 9
Located in Milan, IT
This vintage example was woven in the 1980s, which marks the beginning of the revivalist period of Tibetan weaving, which took place in Nepal through small co-operatives of Tibetan r...
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Vintage 1980s Nepalese Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Mohtashem Kashan Rug Depicting the Annunciation
Located in Milan, IT
Finely knotted with lustrous kurk wool, this Mohtashem workshop Kashan rug depicts the Archangel Gabriel with the Madonna and Child with an attendant, dressed in the style of the Qaj...
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Antique 1880s Armenian Kashan Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Central Anatolian Kilim Rug with Hooked Hexagons
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven central Anatolian kilim distinguished by a repeat pattern of large hexagons enclosing a hooked lozenge, flanked by parallel and offset rows of smaller hexagons from wh...
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Vintage 1920s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Rug with Abstract Geometric Design
Located in Milan, IT
This rug is part of a rare group of central Asian weavings which were commissioned by the local patronage, at the height of the fashion for European Modernism. Here the pattern bypas...
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Mid-20th Century Afghan Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Bakhtiari Tacheh Tribal Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Tacheh are saddle bags employed by the people of the Bakhtiari tribe. These are woven in wool by means of different techniques, which include interlock tapestry, dovetailing, weft fl...
Category
Vintage 1920s Azerbaijani Tribal Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Charming Antique Nursery Pictorial Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A sweet little rug, possibly used in a nursery setting, distinguished by a large scale checkerboard pattern in blue and ivory. While the blue compartments invariably enclose a small ...
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Vintage 1920s Indian Other Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Aqua Blue Ziegler Sultanabad with Large Scale Strapwork Arabesques
Located in Milan, IT
One of the principal characteristics of Ziegler carpets can be seen in their particular treatment of colour, where the wool yarns are masterfully dyed so to create an almost transluc...
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Antique 1880s Azerbaijani Sultanabad Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Anatolian Minimalist Striped Perdeh Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Perdehs were employed as tent dividers by the Kurdish tribes of eastern Anatolia, creating partitions inside their dwellings. Each flat-woven wool panel is individually dip-dyed with...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Minimalist Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
