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Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Shield Palmette Design
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Tur...
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Vintage 1950s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Renaissance Wreath Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Tur...
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Vintage 1930s Spanish Moorish Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Renaissance Palmette Design
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Turkish (symmetrical) knots to both the court as well as for export.
Throughout the 20th century their carpets were either woven with French Savonnerie patterns or, as in this case, with designs taken from the Spanish Renaissance weaving tradition. These carpets are known in the trade with the term of 'Cuenca,' which is the city in southern Spain where they were originally woven in the 15th-17th centuries. Here the pattern, which has a raised pile with respect to the ivory background, is distinguished by an infinite repeat of curvilinear palmettes as seen on 15th-16th century Spanish Alcaraz carpets.
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Vintage 1940s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with Renaissance Wreath Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Turkish (symmetrical) knots to both the court as well as for export.
Throughout the 20th century their carpets were either woven with French Savonnerie patterns or, as in this case, with designs taken from the Spanish Renaissance weaving tradition. These carpets are known in the trade with the term of 'Cuenca,' which is the city in southern Spain where they were originally woven in the 15th-17th centuries. Here the pattern is distinguished by an infinite repeat of floral wreaths as seen on Spanish Alcaraz carpets...
Category
Vintage 1940s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Spanish Cuenca Rug with 16th Century Lotto Oushak Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
The court workshop called 'Real Fabrica de Tapices' has been active in Madrid since the 17th Century, supplying handmade carpets woven with Turkish (symmetrical) knots to both the co...
Category
Vintage 1930s Spanish Oushak Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Ivory Background Turkish Medallion Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Showing a Persianate pattern composed of a central medallion with quartered medallion elements in the corners, this old Turkish rug is distinguished by an ivory background and by a r...
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Vintage 1930s Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Graphic Eastern Moroccan Vintage Abstract Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Berber carpets from eastern Morocco, near the border with Algeria, are distinguished by wild patterns and audacious color combinations. This example displays all of these charact...
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Vintage 1940s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Rehamna Red and Blue Minimalist Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The Berber carpets of the Rehamna plain around Marrakesh are often distinguished by their minimalist character. This stunning example is conceived around two colours (blue and red), ...
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Vintage 1940s Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique English Needlework Rug
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely fine English needlepoint rug, representative of the highest quality woven during the Victorian era, decorated by an allover pattern of ivory cartouches containing refine...
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Antique 1870s English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Pair of French Art Deco Rugs 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home craft product...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Pair of French Art Deco Rugs 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home Craft product...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
French Art Deco Narrow Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a floppy handle and a relatively coarse weave, rugs such as these are referred by European scholars as 'travail domestique', meaning that they are home craft products inspired by popular patterns. This extremely narrow rug...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique English Needlepoint Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A refined English needlework distinguished by the horizontal arrangement of a centralised motif, this being composed of a delicately rendered floral bouquet in a basket on an ivory o...
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Antique 1890s British Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Victorian English Needlework Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A fine English needlework worked in both petit and gros point distinguished by a floral spray on a black background, contained within a reserve defined by ribbon-like, stylised acant...
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Antique 1890s English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Victorian English Needlepoint Rug, circa 1860
Located in Milan, IT
A charming needlepoint rug distinguished by an infinite repeat pattern of floral bouquets alternated by offset parallel rows of leafy roundels. English needlepoints such as this one ...
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Antique 19th Century English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Central Asian Felt Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woolen 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
Modernist Geometric Chinese Rug, 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual carpet woven in two colors with an all-over pattern of square devices. Although it was originally sourced in China, carpets of this type were influenced by the Eur...
Category
Vintage 1930s Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Ukrainian Wool and Cotton Pile Rug, 1880's
Located in Milan, IT
Ukrainian and Bessarabian carpets are typically flat-woven, as this was a tradition imported from France by Peter the Great, who is said to have opened various tapestry workshops aro...
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Antique 19th Century Ukrainian Bessarabian Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Cotton
French Art Deco Wool Rug Monogrammed AF 1930's
Located in Milan, IT
Woven in a range of shades of beige and brown, this Art Deco rug is distinguished by an abstract arrangement of intersecting planes with other geometric devices, a design that is cha...
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Ruby Red Ersari Turkmen Rug with All-Over Geometric Pattern, 1930s
Located in Milan, IT
A classic Turkmen Main carpet distinguished by a unique tonality of ruby red for the background. The allover pattern composed of three parallel rows of octagonal devices is a charact...
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Vintage 1930s Turkmen Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Antique Ukrainian Pile Rug With Floral Garlands in the St. Petersburg Style
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare Ukrainian pile rug woven with a pattern characteristic of Aubusson and Savonnerie French carpets. Carpets such as this one were woven at a time when the classical French style was extremely in favour among the Russian aristocracy, who decorated their homes with period French furniture...
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Antique 1870s Ukrainian Bessarabian Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Ottoman Style Silk Embroidered Textile Hanging or Spread
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined embroidery ornated by an infinite repeat of stylized palmettes and leafs typical of 16th century ottoman court workshops. It belongs to a group of weavings commissioned by a British interior designer and no longer in production. It is therefore a one off, displaying the art of ottoman silk embroidery...
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Early 2000s Turkish Revival Turkish Rugs
Materials
Silk
Very Fine Antique Algerian Silk and Wool Shawl with Stripes
Located in Milan, IT
A strikingly visual shawl composed of alternating rows of horizontal stripes in undyed dark wool and insect dyed fuchsia red silk. The differing widths of each stripe imparts this te...
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Vintage 1930s Algerian Tribal Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Rare Room Size Open Field Antique Tibetan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A unique and elegant Tibetan carpet in a large format, most probably commissioned at the time for a special purpose. The neutral open field is framed by a series of borders, the larg...
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Antique 1880s Tibetan Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Contemporary Painterly Red Tuareg Moroccan Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A unique flat-weave with a very robust texture obtained by brocading a warp-faced fabric composed of very thick woolen light orange wefts. It is inspired by the reed carpets of the T...
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21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Tribal Moroccan and North African...
Materials
Wool
Rare Large Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Woven with the exclusive use of recycled yarns of various type, ranging from cotton to lurex, this represents 'art brut' within the domain of the textile arts. Weavings such as this ...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Abstract Moroccan Berber Boucherouite Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Berber rug from the Boujad region, located on the foothills of the central High Atlas mountains of Morocco, with a background in polychrome stripes onto which are asym...
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Late 20th Century Moroccan Folk Art Moroccan and North African Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Geometric Chinese Rug with Polychrome Lozenges
Located in Milan, IT
A fine Peking type carpet woven by an honeycomb arrangement of polychrome lozenges with an almost random color distribution.
Carpets of this type are representative of an early 20th...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early Chinese Ningxia Rug with Lotus Flowers
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and beautiful early Chinese carpet characterized by an infinite repeat of parallel and offset rows of blue and ivory lotus blossoms, symbols of purity, on a two-tone yellow ba...
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Antique Early 17th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Peking Chinese Blue Open Field Rug
Located in Milan, IT
The fine carpets of Peking represent the other end of the spectrum of Chinese textile art, expressing a late Qing dynasty aesthetic that is based o...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Minimalist Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Antique Ottoman Oushak Multiple Niche Rug Fragment
Located in Milan, IT
A truly majestic Ottoman carpet fragment decorated by a sequence of five niches with capitols leading into an aqua green background. Professionally mounted on a cotton backing, this monumental, architectural weaving is a prime example of antique textile art.
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Turkish Oushak Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Cotton Agra Rug with Tile Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
An exquisite cotton Agra carpet woven in an all-over pattern of delicately coloured polylobed tile-like elements set on an ivory background. Cotton Agra carpets find inspiration for ...
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Antique 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Early Anatolian Kilim Fragment
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning early Kilim from Central Anatolia distinguished by a rare apricot background, by a spectacular array of early colors including aubergine and by a bottom compartment decorated by stylized carnations (or Mother Goddess fertility figures...
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Antique 1750s Turkish Kilim Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Early Chinese Carpet with Stylized Lotus Flowers and Leaf Stems
Located in Milan, IT
The extremely rare and monumental, ivory background large carpet shown here is decorated by an harmonious pattern of blue and light blue scrolling lotus flowers connected to each oth...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Antique Tibetan Nambu Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unusual Tibetan rug woven with the wool yarn obtained by unravelling the so-called 'Nambu' skirts, which are typically decorated by multicolored stripes. The unravelled ya...
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Vintage 1920s Tibetan Tibetan Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Imperial Chinese Red Silk Rug with Phoenixes
Located in Milan, IT
A very rare silk Ningxia carpet with an unusual lacquer red background decorated at the centre by a large phoenix and surrounded by four smaller phoenixes in the corners. The phoenix...
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Antique 19th Century Chinese Ming Chinese and East Asian Rugs
Materials
Silk
Emerald Green Fine Antique Indian Agra Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A highly refined and elegant Agra carpet, woven on a rare emerald green background and framed by a widely spaced lemon yellow border. Agra represents the pinnacle of the decorative c...
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Antique 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Indian Agra Rug with Ardabil Design
Located in Milan, IT
Very finely woven with lustrous wool, this elegant antique Indian Agra carpet is distinguished by a centralised pattern originating from a very rare 16th century Persian Safavid...
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Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Art Deco Oversize Indian Cotton Dhurrie
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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Vintage 1930s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
French Modernist Pile Rug in the Neo Baroque Style
Located in Milan, IT
One of the main trajectories of French Modernism was dedicated towards a revival of a classical iconography. Motivated from a reaction towards the often rigid and austere mood of the...
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Vintage 1930s French Neoclassical Revival Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Louis Philippe Antique Aubusson Square Rug in Wool and Metal Thread
Located in Milan, IT
Aubusson rugs that were woven after the Restauration period distinguish themselves by a richer palette, as well as for employing architectural motifs often inspired by the ceiling decorations...
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Antique 19th Century French Louis Philippe Western European Rugs
Materials
Metallic Thread
Vintage Geometric Kirghiz Wool Felt Square Rug, 1940's
Located in Milan, IT
Felts are among the first woollen structures made by mankind. Some of the earliest we know were found in the kurgans of Central Asia. This tradition continued until recently, althoug...
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Vintage 1940s Kyrgyzstani Tribal Central Asian Rugs
Materials
Wool
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 ...
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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...
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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...
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Antique 19th Century English Victorian Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
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...
Category
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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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
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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
Modernist Aubusson Rug in the Neo Baroque Style Signed JF
By André Arbus
Located in Milan, IT
One of the main trajectories of French Modernism was dedicated towards a revival of a classical iconography. Motivated from a reaction towards the often rigid and austere mood of the...
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Vintage 1930s 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.
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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...
Category
Antique 19th Century American Colonial Revival North and South American ...
Materials
Wool
French Mid-Century Modern Rug 1950's
Located in Milan, IT
A stunning Modernist carpet with an all-over 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
