Indian Rugs

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...

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...

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...

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...

In brown and cream, this contemporary "Rain" Persian carpet from Orley Shabahang measures 3' x 5', This design showcases intricate patterns of all of the various shapes of falling ra...

A great antique Indian carpet, showing the signs of its former life in the English countryside, still looking fabulous after all those years ... Note: The upper right corner is slig...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Antique Indian Dhurrie Rug, Early 20th Century The gentle colors of this distinctive Indian dhurrie complement the soft cotton used in its construction. A meandering vegetal scroll almost gives the effect of an overall design as shades of gold, olive green, and beige play against a powder-blue ground. Subtle but deliberate tracing in classic north Indian burgundy-red gives added definition to the composition. Of particular interest are the well-camouflaged peacocks used...

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...

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...

Indian Dhurrie, Early 20th Century Additional Information Dimensions: 4'8" W x 7'11" L Origin: India Period: Early 20th Century Rug ID: 17275

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...

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...

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...

This square Indian Agra carpet was woven in the end of the 19th century when India was a part of the British Empire. Most Agra carpets from this period are known for their persianate...

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...

This highly refined Amritsar carpet combines Classic persianate drawing with a local Indian color sensibility that harkens back to Mughal predecessors from the seventeenth century. L...

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 ...

This elegant, oversized carpet from Northern India rotates ruby-red rows of hexagons with glittering white diamonds. These jewel like hues combined with precision of execution and a ...

A charming, small, cotton Dhurrie prayer rug with a prayer design in shades of soft blue, navy, cream, red and ivory.

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...