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Fine Garden Design Rug with All-Over Pattern in Wool and Silk
Located in Milan, IT
'Garden' represents our Traditional collection at its best, as it's based on an ancient Persian pattern woven when Tabriz was the capital of the Safavid Empire. Very finely knotted w...
Category
2010s Indian Tabriz Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Fine Antique Indian Cotton Dhurrie Rug with Mughal Botanical Pattern
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...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Oversize Architectural Design Rajasthani Palace Dhurrie Carpet
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Fine Antique Burgundy Square Agra Rug with Mughal Shrub Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Agras have historically been regarded among the most refined and elegant carpets. Many were commissioned by the British nobility during the colonial period to adorn their cas...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Agra Rug with All-Over Shrub Pattern on a Maroon Background
Located in Milan, IT
Antique Agra rugs have historically been regarded among the most refined decorative carpets. They were commissioned by British nobility during the colonial period to adorn their cast...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Minimalist Indian Cotton Dhurrie in Teal Green and Light Peach
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 Minimalist Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Fine Antique Indian Lahore Burmese Ruby Red Carpet with All-Over Design
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely fine Lahore workshop carpet, characterised by a well spaced all-over botanical pattern of leafs and palmettes on a Burmese Ruby red background. The white border confers ...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Aquasilk Wool and Sari Silk Surya Rug by Alberto Levi Gallery
Located in Milan, IT
Part of our Aquasilk collection, Surya embodies the harmonious connection between nature and interiors. Endowed with translucent layers of colour, brilliant traces of pattern emerge through the iridescent silk surface to compose mesmerising, painterly compositions. The subtle contrast between the wool and the Sari...
Category
2010s Indian Organic Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Aquasilk Wool and Sari Silk Imara Rug by Alberto Levi Gallery
Located in Milan, IT
Part of our Aquasilk collection, Imara embodies the harmonious connection between nature and interiors. Endowed with translucent layers of colour, brilliant traces of pattern emerge through the iridescent silk surface to compose mesmerising, painterly compositions. The subtle contrast between the wool and the Sari...
Category
2010s Indian Organic Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Oversize Vintage Celadon Green All-Over Design Agra Carpet with Ruby Red Border
Located in Milan, IT
Agra carpets have historically been regarded among the most refined decorative carpets. They were commissioned by the British nobility during the colonial period to adorn their castl...
Category
Vintage 1980s Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Stunning Unique Antique Art Deco Cotton White/Lilac Chequerboard 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...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Fine Vintage Burgundy Red Agra Rug with Scrolling Leafs and Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely finely knotted Agra carpet, woven with the best quality soft wools in India in the mid 80's, commissioned at the time by the Kennedy Carpets gallery of London. This repr...
Category
Vintage 1980s Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Indian Striped Cotton Dhurrie in Teal Green and Light Blue
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Indian Square Cotton Dhurrie with Geometric Border, Circa 1900
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 woven in various formats according to their function, which range from bed covers to prayer mats. Most were produced in the northern region of Rajasthan, almost always in the local jails. These were often commissioned for specific areas of the Maharaja's palaces.
This very unusual example has a perfectly square format, and was probably commissioned for a specific place of a palace. It's signed by the weaver (N.N. Shah) and it's distinguished for its unique cranberry red open field framed by a stunning geometric border with a pattern reminiscent of antique African textiles.
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Art Deco Indian Cotton Dhurrie Rug, circa 1930
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...
Category
Vintage 1930s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Minimalist Indian Cotton Dhurrie Rug, circa 1930
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...
Category
Vintage 1930s Indian Minimalist Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Antique Art Deco Indian Cotton Dhurrie Rug, circa 1930
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...
Category
Vintage 1930s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
Fine Antique Indian Ivory Agra Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A refined ivory background Agra carpet of rare format, this beautiful weaving is decorated by an allover pattern of flowers and palmettes and framed by a dark brown stylised vinery border. The quintessential elegance of these Indian weavings has always placed them at the pinnacle of the decorative carpet market, being ideally suited to sophisticated antique interiors.
Published: Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
Antique 1880s Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Cream Ground Modernist Rug with Oak Leafs
Located in Milan, IT
A highly unusual Modernist rug distinguished by a repeat pattern of realistically drawn, large oak leafs arranged on an ivory background. Finely knotted for this type, it is quite su...
Category
Vintage 1940s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Spectacular Antique Sky Blue Indochine Rug with Cranes and Longevity Symbols
Located in Milan, IT
A specific cluster of northern Indian rugs are inspired by antique Chinese weavings, and are often referred to as Indochine. Here the light blue background hosts a very rich flora an...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Chinoiserie Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Quadrato Magico Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Gio Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Art Deco Fish Design Ivory Modernist Runner Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and unique modernist oriental rug, distinguished by an ivory open field partially embellished by groups of three stylized fish in a rich burgundy red. The arrangement of these...
Category
Vintage 1940s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Quadrato Magico Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossro...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Pair of Modernist Chequerboard Design Rugs
Located in Milan, IT
A rare and highly unusual pair of Modernist Indian rugs characterized by a chequerboard design background in red and rose onto which is laid an all-over repeat pattern composed of a ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Indian Mid-Century Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Vintage Minimalist Modernist Design Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very charming example of Indian Modernism during the late colonial period. One can see a close similarity in style with Minimalist attitudes of the French 'neo-classiques' such as ...
Category
Vintage 1940s Indian Mid-Century Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Art Deco Brown and Ivory Salt and Pepper Rug with Large Maple Leaves
Located in Milan, IT
A highly unusual Indian Art Deco rug characterized by an all-over pattern consisting of large polychrome maple leafs carefully placed onto a salt and pepper brown...
Category
Vintage 1930s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Rare Mughal Dynasty Summer Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Summer carpets are silk embroideries on a cotton background used as by the Mughal court as unique floor spreads for important guests during special occasions.
This particular example...
Category
Antique 1680s Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Silk, Cotton
Fine Silk and Wool Modern Abstract Design Contemporary Rug
Located in Milan, IT
'Waterfall' is part of our Modern design contemporary rug collection. It is very finely hand knotted using high quality New Zealand hand-spun wool and over 50% of natural silk. It ca...
Category
2010s Indian Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool, Silk
Blue and White Rug with Mosaic Pattern
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by ancient Byzantine mosaics, this rug is distinguished by an infinite repeat geometric pattern composed of intricately drawn ivory elements on a denim blue background. The ...
Category
2010s Indian Other Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Ginko Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Quadrato Magico Reverse Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed By Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossro...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Corallo Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan design week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Arabesco Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Trigono Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Tangeri Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossro...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Conchiglia Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossroads between art and design. She is considered by many as the natural descendant of Giò Ponti, who was also a friend of her family.
For this year's Milan Design Week, Barbara Frua has created a collection of rugs for the Alberto Levi Gallery...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Istrice Cashmere Wool Chain Stitch Rug Designed by Barbara Frua
By Barbara Frua De Angeli
Located in Milan, IT
Barbara Frua De Angeli is a leading Milanese interior decorator and famed designer. Her work pays homage to Milan's decorative arts tradition in an eclectic fashion, often at crossro...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Ivory Background Indian All-Over Design Amritsar Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Amritsar had the reputation of being a very prestigious weaving centre during the Mughal Empire. Its 19th century production is characterised by pastel shades, large-scale patterns a...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Fine Antique Ivory Background Agra Carpet
Located in Milan, IT
Agra carpets have historically been regarded among the most refined decorative carpets. These were typically commissioned by British nobility during the colonial period to adorn thei...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Contemporary Silk Rug with Ancient Byzantine Mosaic Pattern
By Alberto Levi
Located in Milan, IT
An extremely finely knotted carpet woven completely in pure silk, with a design taken from the floor mosaics of the Byzantine period. The aging effect is obtained by weaving the patt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Classical Roman Indian Rugs
Materials
Silk
Fine Antique Blue Green Indian Agra with All-over Scrolling Palmettes
Located in Milan, IT
Agra carpets have historically been regarded among the most refined decorative carpets. They were commissioned by British nobility during the colonial period to adorn their castles a...
Category
Antique 1880s Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Wool
Antique Light Green Open Field Indian Amritsar Rug
Located in Milan, IT
Characterized by a very unusual light green background, this fine Amritsar carpet is distinguished by a small medallion with pendants layered onto a large cartouche acting and an ope...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indian Agra Indian 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
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...
Category
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...
Category
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...
Category
Vintage 1930s Indian Art Deco Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
'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
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...
Category
Antique 1890s Indian Agra Indian 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...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Agra Indian Rugs
Materials
Cotton
