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Vintage Baroque Revival Turkish Rug by Zeki Muren, 1950's
Located in Milan, IT
Zeki Muren (1931-1996) was a famous Turkish artist, active in fields ranging from classical and contemporary music to poetry and acting. From 1950-1953 he studied Decorative Arts at ...
Category
Vintage 1950s Turkish Baroque Revival Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
French Art Deco Geometric Wool Rug Circa 1930
Located in Milan, IT
Woven in different tones of brown over a camel background, this Art Deco rug embodies the aesthetic of the period, juxtaposing an all-over pattern of triangles, probably taken from c...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Arts & Crafts Donegal Light Blue Wool Rug Attributed to Gavin Morton, circa 1910
By Gavin Morton
Located in Milan, IT
The Donegal carpet factory was responsible for the weaving of the most significant hand-knotted carpets of the Arts & Crafts period. Guided initially by British architect-designers s...
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Early 20th Century Irish Arts and Crafts Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Bessarabian Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven in brown and grey tones, this unusual kilim is decorated by a geometric pattern influenced by the European avant-garde, rather than with the more typical floral design. It is s...
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Vintage 1940s Ukrainian Mid-Century Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Spectacular English Pompeian Red Needlepoint Wool Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning needlepoint carpet distinguished by a rich red field punctuated by a repeating floral motif and dominated by an impeccably executed central element, elegantly decorated wi...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Russian Antik Denim Rug by Michaela Schluypen for Floor to Heaven
By Michaela Schluypen
Located in Milan, IT
Michaela Schluypen is one of the leading contemporary rug designers, known for her weaving techniques where she skillfully combines tradition with innovation.
She has been awarded m...
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21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Suzani Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Terra Love Square Rug by Michaela Schluypen for Floor to Heaven
By Michaela Schluypen
Located in Milan, IT
Michaela Schluypen is one of the leading contemporary rug designers, known for her weaving techniques where she skillfully combines tradition with innovation.
She has been awarded m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Space Age Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Jeans Rug by Michaela Schluypen for Floor to Heaven
By Michaela Schluypen
Located in Milan, IT
Michaela Schluypen is one of the leading contemporary rug designers, known for her weaving techniques where she skillfully combines tradition with innovation.
She has been awarded ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Suzani Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Embroidered Central Asian Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woollen structures made by mankind. Some of the earliest we know date from the 5th century B.C. and were found under ground in the frozen kurgans of Siberia...
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Vintage 1930s Kyrgyzstani Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Black Tribal Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woolen structures made by mankind, some of the earliest we know were found in the 'kurgans' of Central Asia, decorated by a variety of zoomorphic motifs typ...
Category
20th Century Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Moroccan Berber Abstract Geometric Wool Rug, 1940's
Located in Milan, IT
The Moroccan rugs from the Boujad region represent the most extreme abstract renditions of Berbers' woven art.
Like in this example, their designs are often based on codified patter...
Category
Vintage 1940s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Moroccan Gold Ground Wool Rug, 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
A rare soft yellow ground carpet from the Moroccan High Atlas. Carpets of this region are distinguished by a very fine weave and by a silky wool. This particular rug is in excellent ...
Category
Vintage 1930s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Moroccan Modernist Wool Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Many French carpet designers of the mid-20th century were commissioning their weavings in Morocco, which at the time was a French colony, in that they could obtain beautiful pile car...
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Vintage 1950s Moroccan Art Deco Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Rya Rug With Geometric Design
Located in Milan, IT
Machine woven Rya carpets were very popular in Europe in the mid-20th century, as they provided an affordable alternative to hand-knotted carpets and were often decorated, like in th...
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Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare and Unusual Mid-Century Modern Beni Ouarain Wool Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Beni Ouarain confederation is composed of seventeen tribes inhabiting the high mountain region of the northeastern Middle Atlas. Their rugs differ from other Berber weavings in t...
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Vintage 1940s Moroccan Mid-Century Modern Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
'River of Ponds' Wool Tapestry Rug by Frank Stella, 1970
By Frank Stella
Located in Milan, IT
Frank Stella is one of the leading figures of the Minimalist movement. Initially influenced by the Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, towards the late fifties he moves to New York where he abandons the Expressionist quest for color in favour of flat and Minimalist surfaces, following the work of Barnett Newman and Jasper Johns. He soon inaugurated a series of works emphasizing the painting as an object in itself rather than as a representation of something else. Faithful to Minimalist philosophy, the canvas for him is nothing but a flat surface with color yet suggestive of a third dimension.
Towards the early 1960s there was a lot of interest in America in adopting textiles as a medium for artistic expression. In 1962 the World House Galleries in New York organized an exhibition composed of 26 carpets designed by leading Modern Art Masters such as Léger, Mirò and Picasso together with others from the contemporary designer Miriam Leefe. In 1968 the Charles E. Slatkin Galleries in New York opened an exhibition entitled 'American Tapestries', showing the textile artworks of twenty-two Pop Art and Abstract Expressionist artists. These artists were actively involved in the translation of their pictorial language in the textile medium, designing the preparatory cartoons which would then be sent to India for them to be made into weavings. Their interest towards the expressive qualities of three-dimensional flat surfaces found its quintessential expression in the art of the carpet.
This motivated a second exhibition in 1970 entitled 'Modern Master Tapestries', where the term 'tapestry' was applied both to wall hangings as well as floor coverings. The aim of this exhibition was to give a modern configuration to the ancient art of weaving.
'River of Ponds...
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Vintage 1970s Indian Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Abstract Design French Wool Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Influenced by the abstract patterns of Berber weavings from the Middle Atlas called 'Boujad', which were avidly collected by many French artists during the colonial period, this rug ...
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
French Aubusson Wool Tapestry Rug 'Mine Orange' by Claude Loewer 1970
By Claude Loewer
Located in Milan, IT
Born in Switzerland in 1917, Claude Loewer was one of the main artists who translated the language of abstract painting to that of textile art. His work is present in numerous privat...
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Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
French Aubusson Wool Rug After Andre Arbus, 1940's
By André Arbus
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare French Aubusson carpet, monogrammed JF, executed in the style distinctive of André Arbus and characteristic of the so-called 'Neoclassique' style (please refer to J. Sira...
Category
Vintage 1940s French Baroque Revival Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Antique American Hooked Narrow Runner Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with an all-over design of stylized leaves and tendrils, this rare American hooked runner carpet has the added bonus of being very narrow, making it ideal for contemporary spaces.
Category
Early 20th Century American Colonial Revival North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early American Hooked Floral Rug, 1880's
Located in Milan, IT
Decorated by a floral pattern inspired by French Aubussons and Savonneries, this rare American hooked carpet is very finely woven using coloured...
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Antique 19th Century American Colonial Revival North and South American ...
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Red Wool Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An unusual hand-knotted carpet woven in two tones of red, with an all-over pattern of perfectly executed roundels. Patterns such as this one were clearly influenced by Op-Art designe...
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Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern French Red Wool Rug in the style of Mathieu Mategot
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Milan, IT
Defined by an abstract pattern in three different tones of red arranged on three planes, this rug is in the quintessential French Mid-Century Modern style as seen on some of the weav...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
French Mid-Century Modern Rug 1950's
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning modernist carpet with an allover pattern composed of irregular waves in various shades of red, light grey and black on an ivory background. The 1950s were a very creative ...
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Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Chinese Peking Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
A very finely woven Chinese carpet of Peking quality, knotted with silky wool and distinguished by a very light palette. The open ivory background is uniquely decorated by a central ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Geometric Mongolian Chinese Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The geometric lattice scheme and the wide, almost three-dimensional Greek fret border that distinguishes this rare Mongolian carpet is clearly inspired from the early carpets of the ...
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Antique 1880s Mongolian Qing Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Central Anatolian Kilim Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by a pattern of vertical stripes, this sturdy kilim is woven with lanolin-rich wool from the nomadic pastures from the Toros Mountains, located in central Anatolia. A s...
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Vintage 1940s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Chinese Rug with Brocade Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual red ground Chinese rug decorated by an infinite repeat pattern composed of a network of geometric devices derived from silk brocades of the Ming period. Examples o...
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Vintage 1920s Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Navajo Regional Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An antique Navajo rug from southwest America distinguished by an allover pattern of cruciform elements on a soft grey background. Rugs if this type have been collected for their auth...
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Vintage 1920s American Navajo North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Royal School of Needlework Rug for Vigo Gallery
Located in Milan, IT
Commissioned in the mid-1980s by the Vigo Carpet Gallery of London to the Royal School of Needlework, this needlepoint signalled a brief revivalist period in England for needlepoints...
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Vintage 1980s English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Mongolian Chinese Carpet with Longevity Motifs
Located in Milan, IT
The rare carpets of Mongolia have in recent years achieved a stature of their own. They differ from traditional 19th century Chinese carpets in that they typically employ stylized pa...
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Antique 1870s Chinese Chinoiserie Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Azeri Shadda Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven wool flat-weave from the Azeri tribe in the southern Caucasus, distinguished by a tartan-like composition of polychrome vertical bands alternated to lozenges. This typ...
Category
Early 20th Century Russian Kilim Caucasian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Scandinavian Modern Kilim Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by Mid-Century Modern Swedish carpets, this kilim is part of our contemporary collection of textured flat weaves where the material is employed in such a way as to create a ...
Category
2010s Indian Scandinavian Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Scandinavian Modern Style Kilim Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by Mid-Century Modern Swedish carpets, this Kilim is part of our contemporary collection of textured flat-weaves where the material is employed in such a way as to create a ...
Category
2010s Indian Scandinavian Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Scandinavian Modern Kilim Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by Mid-Century Modern Swedish carpets, this Kilim is part of our contemporary collection of textured flat weaves where the material is employed in such a way as to create a ...
Category
2010s Indian Scandinavian Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Scandinavian Modern Kilim Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by Mid-Century Modern Swedish carpets, this Kilim is part of our contemporary collection of textured flat weaves where the material is employed in such a way as to create a ...
Category
2010s Indian Scandinavian Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Scandinavian Modern Kilim Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by Mid-Century Modern Swedish carpets, this Kilim is part of our contemporary collection of textured flat weaves where the material is employed in such a way as to create a ...
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2010s Indian Scandinavian Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Ivory Background Amritsar Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Amritsar had the reputation of being a very prestigious weaving center during the Mughal Empire. Its nineteenth century production is characterised by pastel shades, large-scale patt...
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Antique 1890s Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Edward Fields Carpet after a Design by Marion V. Dorn
By Edward Fields
Located in Milan, IT
Edward Fields has been creating bespoke luxury floor coverings in New York since 1930. His carpets are known for their unparalleled design, quality and craftsmanship. Among it's many prestigious commissions there is a carpet installed in the Diplomatic Reception Room in the White House, under specifications of First Lady's Jacqueline Kennedy's interior designer.
Marion V. Dorn (1899-1964) was originally trained as a painter and this led her to develop her skills as a textile designer. During her formative years she worked in Paris and New York, and it was at the 1925 'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes' in Paris that she first encountered the modernist rug designs of Ivan da Silva Bruhns and Maurice Dufrene. By 1930 she began her association with the Wilton Royal Carpet...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern North and South American Rugs
Materials
Wool
Large Oval Fine Antique Chinese Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
A finely woven Chinese carpet of the type ascribed to the best workshops in Beijing distinguished by an oval format and characterized by a tone-on-tone leaf pattern in off beige-gold...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
'All'Ultimo Respiro' by Barbara Nahmad
By Barbara Nahmad
Located in Milan, IT
'All'Ultimo Respiro' is a hand-tufted wool tapestry woven as a unique piece in 2014 by Barbara Nahmad. It is clearly inspired by the iconic scene in 'Gone with the Wind' and it is pa...
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2010s Italian Other Contemporary Art
Materials
Wool
Shabby Chic Distressed Vintage Chinese Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Distinguished by a large central element obtained from a stylization of the 'Shou' Chinese ideogram, symbolizing infinity, this glorious carpet is further characterized by a soft tau...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Chinoiserie Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Carpets such as this one were woven in China during the Art Deco period in order to satisfy the demand in the West for decorative rugs designed in the Art Deco taste. Here the Art De...
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Vintage 1920s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Abstract Rehamna Moroccan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The plains of Marrakesh are the home of the so-called Rehamna carpets. Some of these are characterized by abstract patterns, executed as if mimicking the effect of colored brush stro...
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Vintage 1940s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Colorful Striped Tunisian Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A colorful Tunisian Kilim decorated by a repeat pattern of horizontal stripes arranged in clusters of different width and palette. A very happy piece ce...
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Vintage 1950s Tunisian Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Kirghiz Embroidered Tent Band
Located in Milan, IT
A rare complete tent band, embroidered in wool on a felt background, embellished at its bottom by polychrome tassels. The Kirghiz people of Central Asia empl...
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Vintage 1930s Kyrgyzstani Tribal Rugs
Antique Cappadocian Zili Flat-Weave
Located in Milan, IT
Woven in a complex flat-weave technique known as Zili, this superb example originates from the area of Sivrihisar, located in Cappadocia. The background is entirely in wool and the a...
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Antique 1880s Turkish Tribal Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Greek Island Ottoman Silk Embroidery
Located in Milan, IT
Carefully worked in fine silk, this outstanding Greek Island embroidery is decorated by a horizontal repeat of Directional floral devices conta...
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Antique 18th Century Greek Islamic Tapestries
Materials
Silk
Vintage Djebel Amour Saharan Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare weaving attributed to the Djebel Amour tribe, located in Algeria close to the border with eastern Morocco along the Saharan Atlas. Although the tri...
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Vintage 1950s Algerian Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Central Asian Flat-Weave
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare and unusual flat-weave, extremely finely woven with silky wool, decorated by an asymmetrical array of horizontal stripes on a rich red background, save for the lower thir...
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Early 20th Century Uzbek Minimalist Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique English Needlepoint Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
A large antique English needlepoint carpet decorated by the so-called 'album' pattern, composed of square compartments each containing a dif...
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Antique 1870s English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tibetan Tsukdruk Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Rugs woven in this particular type of cut-loop technique follow a tradition which dates to the earliest forms of pile weaving. Each of the four panels is woven individually and are t...
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Vintage 1930s Chinese Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Vintage Wool Hereke Signed Rug, 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
A fine wool rug woven in the Hereke workshops in Turkey, decorated in the French Aubusson style. French decors were extremely fashionable among the turn-of-the-century Turkish High S...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Rococo Revival Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Cotton Dhurrie Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The weaving of flat-woven cotton carpets known as dhurries is cited in Mughal chronicles of the 15th century. Probably one of the earliest forms of floor covering, dhurries were wove...
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Early 20th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
