Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

This vintage 5x6 rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail fro...

This vintage 4x9 rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from ...

This vintage 3x7 runner is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinary Turkish designer Zeki Müren. Further on the Design: This industrial art Deco piece enjoys polychromatic geometric patterns favoring beige-brown, red, and black on a green field. Connoisseurs will further admire the sheer attention to color variation and movement created therein—an exemplar of Müren’s most distinguished works. This mid-century Zeki Müren runner...

This vintage 2x5 rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinary Turki...

This vintage 5x8 distressed style rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multi...

An antique Chinese Peking large room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 10' 10" x 15' 2".

This vintage 4x9 rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from ...

This vintage 6x11 rug is a new, rare addition to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to ha...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 244 x 298 )

This vintage 5x8 rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinary Turki...

This vintage 4x9 distressed style rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s midcentury Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multid...

This all-cotton construction tapestry woven square carpet shows a neutral field with off white quarter circle corners and a round off white central meda...

A floating round navy flower medallion is centrally set on the honey-tone field with six secondary floral sprays. The royal and cerulean blue border features ecru "coins" with lotus ...

This is an authentic handmade rug. It was made in China around the 1940s. The overall color pallet is ivory over. The materials are wool pile with cotton foundation. The colors are f...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'4" - 265 x 345 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' x 3'10" - 61 x 117 )

A charming early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a central round medallion with a landscape containing houses surrounding a lake with a boat, and all surrounded by a wide came...

An abstract, borderless dynamic pattern of asymmetrically placed boomerang, wavy lines, odd shapes and painterly drawn forms, filled in with pale blue, crea...

Lightly distressed, this borderless, simply geometric scatter shows a lipstick red field and light, bright blue bands forming an asymmetrically-placed rectangle enclosing a light gre...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a dragon in black, blue, red, goldenrod, and light blue-grey over a cream-white borderless field. Measures: 1' 3" x 1' 6" The craft of the hand-knotted carpet in China, and the surrounding areas including Mongolia and Tibet, extends into the early centuries of the first millennium, C.E., but we really have a firm grasp only beginning in the later 16th century with large, very coarsely woven carpets, often depicting dragons, created for the Imperial Forbidden City palaces. Chinese carpets have always been commercial and there are no tribal groups responsible for any of the carpet weaving strains. When the Ming Dynasty fell in 1644, with no Imperial patrons, production moved to the city of Ningxia in north central China where several workshops turned out more finely woven pieces for the Mandarins of the administrative Ch’ing bureaucracy and well-to-do merchants. Ningxia was the major Chinese carpet center up through most of the 19th century, with first allover and then medallion designs on cotton foundations in medium weaves. Palettes were initially limited to yellows, dark blue and cream, but later widened to include reds, browns and even green. These antiques were the first Chinese carpets to be exported to the West and they fitted in well with the craze for Chinese blue-and-white porcelain in the second half of the 19th century. Ningxia also wove shaped and rectangular small rugs for saddle underlays, chair (“throne”) seats and shaped backs, pillar carpets with dragons or monks for Buddhist monasteries, and long divided runners for monastery meditation halls. These small rugs are among the most collectible of all Chinese weavings. Weavers from Ningxia set up workshops in the capital Peking (Beijing) in the 1860’s and began weaving Western room sizes for export, primarily to America. In blue – and – white and polychrome palettes, with round wreath medallions, precious objects, seasonal flowers, paeonies, lotuses, fretwork, clouds, butterflies and bats, all relatively spaciously drawn. The round “Shou” (Good Luck) character is also a prominent decorative motif. There are also a few Peking landscape pictorials with pagodas, houses, bridges, waterscapes and boats. Peking carpets were woven right up until WWII and production began again after the Cultural Revolution around 1970. They are moderately well-woven, on cotton foundations, exactingly executed and indisputably Chinese. Many are in the blue-and-white style. Nothing else looks like a Peking carpet and for a Chinese “look” in a room, they are absolutely indispensable. Sizes range from scatters and a few runners, through the popular 9’12’ size, to large carpets over 20’ which must have been special orders. The earliest Peking Revival carpets are pliable and fairly thin, but they became heavier and more compact in the 20th century, in competition with Art Deco carpets from Tientsin. The modern, post- 1970, pieces are in the traditional Peking style, but are a little too regular and neat. Exactitude has been favored over character, as hard to explain that as it is. There are a number of all-silk and silk-and –metal thread pieces, many with inscriptions purporting to link them with rooms in the Imperial palaces, bringing very substantial auction prices, but none are really antique. The genre emerged after WWI and the present demand comes from mainland Chinese. The silk piles often stand in pattern relief against flat woven gold metal thread grounds. The inscriptions are apocryphal, the rugs are flashily opulent, perfect for nouveaux riches. The Art Deco period between the two World Wars saw a distinctive carpet industry developing in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northeastern China. These are highly prized for their transitional design character, neither overtly Chinese, nor abstractly modern/contemporary. Woven exclusively for export, usually by and for American firms, such as Nichols and Elbrook, they are totally in the “Jazz Age Modern” style of the 1920’s, often without borders, with abstract or abstracted patterns, and only with, at best, a few Chinese-y pattern elements. Vases asymmetrically placed in the corners are features of some of the more Chinese-y carpets. Open fields with floral sprays and branches growing in from the edges are anther design innovation. Often, Chinese motives have been re-imagined in more sharp-edged, abstract manners. Some have no references whatsoever to natural elements. The patterns are sharp and the rugs are never subdued, soft or restrained. The rugs are heavily constructed, with crisp, unfading dyes and medium to medium coarse weaves on cotton foundations. All are extremely well-executed, with none of the vagaries, variations or twists found on even high-quality Persian rugs. The majority are in the 9’ by 12’ format and a surprising number can be found in top condition. There also was a substantial production in Peking from, especially from the Fette factory. Elliptical and round carpets, and lighter, often pastel colors, were a specialty. Nothing looks like an Art Deco Chinese and they work well with traditional Chinese furniture and the most modern decor as well. These is no substitute for a good Chinese Art Deco carpet. Chinese carpets also include small scatters from Tibet, with high quality wool, floating dragons and allover textile patterns. The colors of vintage and modern pieces are bright, but there are antique small rugs...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a bold fuchsia ground overlaid with myriad auspicious peonies and flowers, ...

A nested and tab-edged pale blue central lozenge fits in a rectangle defined by four smaller off-white diamonds and joining bars, on the white field. The many borders include: a medi...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'6" - 270 x 350 )

A vintage Persian Tabriz Art Deco accent rug handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 6' 8" x 7' 10".

This long pile, coarsely woven long carpet shows a beige seafoam field with an open diamond lattice allover pattern, within a brown border with trompe l'oeil strapwork forming cartouches enclosing bouquets. A massive carpet...

This rug is in excellent condition with high pile throughout the rug, cleaned and no stained, the ends and bindings of the rug are intact as original and there has not been any repai...

Antique Art Deco Chinese Oriental rug, Gold 8'11" x 11'6" #17400, circa 1930s There are no tears, breaks or holes. The materials are from vegetable dyes wool pile over cotton founda...

A vintage Persian Art Deco style Hamadan accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 4" x 9' 6".

An extremely rare Art Deco rug designed in 1925 by Jean Burkhalter and commissioned by Pierre Chareau for a seaside mansion on the island of Corsica....

A vintage Persian Mahal Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 4" x 8' 11".

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 358 )

78313 Distressed Antique Chinese peking rug, 09.02 x 15.01. With its rugged beauty and rustic sensibility, this hand knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug will take on a curated li...

An oval-shaped worn early 20th century Chinese rug in powder blue. Measures: 4' x 7'.

A stunning antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug featuring a brown color field and a frame of red and multicolor accents in an exquisite all-over Chinese floral pattern. ...

This unique wool area rug is a fantastic example of Turkish carpets woven in the late 20th century, circa 1970. The design features a large medallion and highly-decorative surroundin...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 4' x 7' - 122 x 214 )

Antique anatole rug from Turkey, circa 1970. Hand knotted wool. Measures: 146 x 274 cm.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco long room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 10" x 15' 8".

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark golden orange field with a central pagoda medallion, garden pavilion...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'6'' - 245 x 290 )

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a bold dark indigo background with an asymmetrical floral cluster with chry...

This vintage 3x10 runner is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to...

This vintage 7x9 rug is a new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4'5'' x 11'9'' - 135 x 358 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'10" - 17'4" - 360 x 528 )

This vintage 5x8 rug is an exciting new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinary Turkish designer Zeki Müren. Hand-knotted in wool circa 1960-1970. Further on the Design: This particular design exemplifies Müren’s talent for recapturing a wide range of aesthetics in his own mid-century style. Connoisseurs may observe a nod to French Art Deco and postmodern British sensibilities one seldom sees in mid-century rugs. The field is a warm ochre, and hosts a bold array of funky retro geometric patterns in rich red, sky blue, and chartreuse green. These playful colors and sharp drawings all speak to Müren’s sense of attitude and whimsy that distinguishes his works. Further on the Condition: This mid-century Art Deco rug...

Decorated with a unique colour pallet of gold, red and deep blue this fantastic wool rug is sure to uplift any room it's introduced to. Featuring a detailed all-over medallion with a...

The Art Deco as a phenomenon of taste has influenced the furnishings of the houses in all its aspects. Carpets like this are born from a renewed taste that has experienced the influe...

78318 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols, 08'08 x 11'04. Channeling the famed Walter Nichols style of the 1920s and 1930s, this han...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 )

This vintage 4x7 rug is a bold new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail...

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a green field. This piece has multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 3'1" x...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'5" - 270 x 348 )

This vintage 7x10 rug is an exciting new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinary Turkish...

This traditional handwoven French Leleu deco rug has an overall eu-de-nil field with a profusion of delicate tiles checkered with alternating geometric icons, in a majestic turquoise...

This vintage rug is an exciting new addition to Rug & Kilim’s mid-century Pasha collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe to hail from multidisciplinar...

This vintage 5x8 rug is an exciting new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 9' x 11'6"- 275 x 350 cm )