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Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

ART DECO STYLE

Art Deco furniture is characterized by its celebration of modern life. More than its emphasis on natural wood grains and focus on traditional craftsmanship, vintage Art Deco dining chairs, tables, desks, cabinets and other furniture — which typically refers to pieces produced during the 1920s and 1930s — is an ode to the glamour of the “Roaring Twenties.” 

ORIGINS OF ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGN

CHARACTERISTICS OF ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGN

  • Bold geometric lines and forms, floral motifs
  • Use of expensive materials such as shagreen or marble as well as exotic woods such as mahogany, ebony and zebra wood
  • Metal accents, shimmering mirrored finishes
  • Embellishments made from exotic animal hides, inlays of mother-of-pearl or ivory

ART DECO FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

VINTAGE ART DECO FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

Few design styles are as universally recognized and appreciated as Art Deco. The term alone conjures visions of the Roaring Twenties, Machine Age metropolises, vast ocean liners, sleek typography and Prohibition-era hedonism. The iconic movement made an indelible mark on all fields of design throughout the 1920s and ’30s, celebrating society’s growing industrialization with refined elegance and stunning craftsmanship.

Widely known designers associated with the Art Deco style include Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Eileen Gray, Maurice Dufrêne, Paul Follot and Jules Leleu.

The term Art Deco derives from the name of a large decorative arts exhibition held in Paris in 1925. “Art Deco design” is often used broadly, to describe the work of creators in associated or ancillary styles. This is particularly true of American Art Deco, which is also called Streamline Moderne or Machine Age design. (Streamline Moderne, sometimes known as Art Moderne, was a phenomenon largely of the 1930s, post–Art Nouveau.)

Art Deco textile designers employed dazzling floral motifs and vivid colors, and while Art Deco furniture makers respected the dark woods and modern metals with which they worked, they frequently incorporated decorative embellishments such as exotic animal hides as well as veneers in their seating, case pieces, living room sets and bedroom furniture.

From mother-of-pearl inlaid vitrines to chrome aviator chairs, bold and inventive works in the Art Deco style include chaise longues (also known as chaise lounges) and curved armchairs. Today, the style is still favored by interior designers looking to infuse a home with an air of luxury and sophistication.

The vintage Art Deco furniture for sale on 1stDibs includes dressers, coffee tables, decorative objects and more.

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Style: Art Deco
1930s Cinese Art Deco Carpet
Located in Bochum, NRW
Vintage Art Deco Chinese Wool Rug, 1930s. This is a handwoven rug made of wool pile on cotton warp, with rich flowers and bamboo designs, against a dark raspberry background. Chain a...
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1930s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Workshop ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 cm )
Located in New York, NY
A terrestrial/aquatic dragon rises from stylized waves while a celestial dragon descends from fungus whorl clouds with two flaming pearls in the plain areas of this black on black Ar...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Unusual Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
An unusual early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a fuchsia ground surrounded by an unusually patterned border containing several floral cartouches alternating with puffs of bi...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A sweet early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a large vase in one corner, potted with multi-colored peonies, chrystanthemums, and cherry blossoms, and all set against a gold b...
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1930s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

20th century Chinese Carpet with Sculpted Border
Located in Savannah, GA
This 20th century Chinese carpet is unusual because it is an nearly square and it is monochromatic. The subtle sculpted border features a fretwork and bat pattern...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Cotton, Wool

New Green Chinese Art Deco Rug with Maximalist Style
Located in Dallas, TX
30924 New Chinese Art Deco rug with Maximalist Style, 08'01 x 10'00. Emanating maximalism with incredible detail and lavish texture, this Ch...
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

1920s Art Deco Antique Chinese Wool Rug With Floral Motif
Located in Norwalk, CT
Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco hand-knotted scatter wool rug with brown and gray color field. This piece has multicolor hues adorned with a classic Chinese floral design. This ...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

4 x 6 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pink Wool Rug With Floral Design
Located in Norwalk, CT
This beautiful, small antique Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-knotted from high-quality wool. Its soft pink background is decorated with a vibrant, multicolored floral pattern elegantly...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Nichols Art Deco Rug circa 1920 8x10
Located in Los Angeles, CA
One of a kind ! Art deco Chinese Peking rug with a beautiful pink beige field surrounding a gorgeous floral medallion. Made in the early 1920s from high quality Chinese wool found al...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Dark Green, 1970s Inspired Customizable Optico Cowhide Area Floor Rug X-Large
Located in Charlotte, NC
Immerse yourself in relaxed opulence and evoke Classic glamour with the stunning new Optico from Art Hide. Think Mad Men Art Deco meets 1970s iconic rock star glam, and you’ve nailed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pakistani Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Cowhide

Sasha Bikoff X Art Hide Customizable Cowhide Red Mushroom Funghi Area Rug XXL
Located in Charlotte, NC
Introducing the Sasha Bikoff X Art Hide Collaboration - Funghi Rug, an epitome of magic and artistry in the world of interior design. Mushrooms are currently in the spotlight, and in...
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2010s Pakistani Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Cowhide

Tibetan Tiger Rug Pure Wool Hand Knotted by Djoharian Collection Antique Design
Located in Lohr, Bavaria, DE
A Tibetan tiger rug, hand knotted in Nepal. This traditional Tiger rug design is typically found on antique rugs called Khaden. It describes a small sized rug of about 3 x 6 ft that was used in Tibet to decorate columns or seat pad. Often these Khaden rugs had Lotus design or Tiger stripes. Many of them were made in a town called Kampa Dzong in Tibet, today in China. Tiger motifs are also found in antique Chinese rugs. Our collection of Tibetan Tiger rugs is made in different material combinations. The displayed rug is made of 100% Tibetan hand spun wool. Total pile height about 1/2-inch, Knot density 60 Tibetan knots per square inch. It has a beige background color and motifs in turquoise, pink, green, red and olive I have one at home using it as Yoga Mat...
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2010s Nepalese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Art Deco Persian Rug, Wool, Neutral, Brown, Orley Shabahang, 6' x 9'
Located in New York, NY
This Orley Shabahang signature carpet consists of a handspun hand-knotted wool pile and organic vegetable dyes. Created in Iran in 2016, in a nearby village of Arak, formerly known a...
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2010s Persian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Antique Art Deco Brown Handmade Floral Chinese Wool Rug
Located in Norwalk, CT
Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a brown field. This Chinese rug has a burgundy and green frame multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral...
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20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Other

Antique Chinese Green Art Deco Rug with Qing Dynasty Style
Located in Dallas, TX
77624, antique Chinese green Art Deco Rug with Qing dynasty style 09'00 x 11'04. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a r...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Amazing Early 20th Century Antique Chinese Art Deco Runner
Located in Chicago, IL
An amazing early 20th century Chinese Art Deco runner with a beautiful pale champagne colored field surrounded by a wide grey border. Auspicious peonies dot the field with potted vases...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Bold Blue Art Deco "Labyrinth" Persian Rug, Orley Shabahang, 10' x 14'
Located in New York, NY
Let this 10' x 14' bold and blue Art Deco Persian Rug from Orley Shabahang, titled "Labyrinth" capture your attention. Clean and structured, this heirloom-quality piece offers a bold...
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2010s Indian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with deep indigo background covered in multi-colored chrysanthemum, peonies, pru...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with mint green field with a basket filled with multi-colored peonies in the center.
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1930s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Rug & Kilim’s French Style Art Deco rug in Polychromatic Floral Patterns
Located in Long Island City, NY
This 8x10 ode to French Art Deco rugs is the next addition to Rug & Kilim’s newly inspired Deco Collection. Hand-knotted in wool. Further on the Design: This piece boasts the Dec...
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2010s Indian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Rug & Kilim’s Gift-Size Chinese Art Deco Style Rug in Purple with Floral Pattern
Located in Long Island City, NY
This hand-knotted wool 2x3 rug is a contemporary gift-size rug representing Rug & Kilim’s Chinese Art Deco rug collection. The design reimagines 1920s period pieces and other rare vi...
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2010s Indian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Stripes, Lines and Triangles Cream, Gray and Rost Customizable Rug Small
Located in Charlotte, NC
Cocorico combines the clean lines of modern architecture with the eccentric allure of the celebrity hotspot from which it gets its name. Whimsical with a touch of mid-century modern ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pakistani Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Cowhide

Vintage Chinese Art Deco Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 4' 2" x 6' 10", features a rich and sophisticated design with a striking interplay of color and form. The deep blue field is ado...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Art Deco Paisley Scatter Rug in Cream and Red
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Mashad Art Deco scatter rug handmade during the mid-20th century with 2 red paisley (boteh) motifs on inverse corners over a cream-white Minimalist and borderless g...
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Mid-20th Century Persian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Rug & Kilim's Deco Modern Kilim Rug in White, Blue Border, Geometric Patterns
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rug & Kilim unveils an innovative 5x8 flat weave rug connoting a unique marriage of Deco style and bold texture. The rug features a modern geometric pattern in crisp white, beige-bro...
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2010s Indian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A stunning Chinese Art Deco rug with the most wonderful gold field covered in sprigs of prunus blossoms and a small central chrysanthemum medallion all woven in indigos, violets, and...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Round Striped Pink Customizable La Quinta Cowhide Area Rug Extra Large
Located in Charlotte, NC
Symmetrical, minimal, classical…this sublime rug ticks all the boxes. Its stunning luxuriousness will radiate interiors joy every day! La Quinta is available in three standard cir...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pakistani Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Cowhide

Signed Vintage Leleu French Art Deco Circle Rug in White and Blue - Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Made with hand-knotted wool in France circa 1940-1950, this 7x7 vintage French Art Deco rug is an extremely collectible mid-century circle rug from Leleu Decorateur—the work of an ic...
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1940s French Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Orange Animal Vintage Tibetan Rug
Located in New York, NY
A 2nd quarter of the 20th Century Tibetan Rug featuring an animal pictorial motif on an orange ground color Measures: 2'10" x 5'2''.
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20th Century Turkish Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'6" - 245 x 290
Located in New York, NY
1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'6" - 245 x 290
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Antique Chinese Art Deco Wool Handmade Rug Taupe with Magenta Border
Located in Topeka, KS
Handsome vintage wool 8’8” x 11’4.5” handmade Chinese Art Deco rug in a gorgeous soft taupe ground with a cranberry or magenta border and jewel tone Art...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Dragon Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
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...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Rug & Kilim’s French Art Deco Style Rug, Beige-Brown and Red Geometric Patterns
Located in Long Island City, NY
This 8x10 modern rug is a fabulous new addition to the French Art Deco rug collection by Rug & Kilim—made with hand-knotted wool, inspired by the 1920s European movement and its most...
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2010s Indian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a violet central field surrounded by a wide brown border flanked by a thin inner indigo border, and a thin outer violet border, and wi...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Rug & Kilim’s Chinese Art Deco Style Rug in Cream with Floral Pattern “Komorebi”
Located in Long Island City, NY
Made with hand-knotted wool, this 3x4 contemporary rug represents a bold and exciting new line in Rug & Kilim’s Chinese Art Deco rug collection—among the first of the “Komorebi” desi...
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2010s Indian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Walter Nichols ( 11'2" x 15'4" - 340 x 467 )
Located in New York, NY
1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Walter Nichols ( 11'2" x 15'4" - 340 x 467 )
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10'' x 11'7''- 269 x 353 cm )
Located in New York, NY
1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 7''- 269 x 353 cm ) With European Design Influences Reminiscence of Ivan de Silva Bruhns Works
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Atelier ( 8'10" x 11'3" - 269 x 343 )
Located in New York, NY
1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Atelier ( 8'10" x 11'3" - 269 x 343 )
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop
Located in New York, NY
1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 9' x 11' 8''
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Art Deco Amsterdamse School Carpet or Rug in the style of Jaap Gidding , 1920s
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Magnificent and rare Art Deco Amsterdamse School carpet or rug. Design in the style of Jaap Gidding.. Striking Dutch design from the 1920s.. Multi-colored wool with the famous Tuschi...
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1920s Dutch Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Tribal Inspired Customizable Linaje Gray, Black and Gold Cowhide Rug Large
Located in Charlotte, NC
The Tribal inspired Linaje merge midcentury inspired gold accents with simple yet compelling geometric shapes and clean lines. The result is a bold statement rug evoking nostalgic gl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pakistani Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Cowhide

Art Deco Antique Chinese Wool Rug In Navy Blue with Floral Motif
Located in Norwalk, CT
Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco hand-knotted scatter wool rug with navy blue color field. This piece has multicolor hues adorned with a classic Chinese floral design. This rug m...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with an all-over celadon green field overlaid with multi-colored peonies, chrysanthemum, lotus, and cherry blossoms, all auspiciou...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Beautiful Modern 20th Century French Needlepoint Tapestry
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice French modern Art Deco tapestry, with cock and sun design and beautiful colors with green field, red, blue, yellow and purple, entirely han...
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Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug
Located in Dallas, TX
78317 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 09'00 x 11'09. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a color-blocked field and border scheme festooned with large, glorious sprays of flowers. Lotuses, peonies, chrysanthemums, and plum blossoms elegantly spread across the composition, breaking across the borders and field, creating a sense of splendor and vitality than cannot be contained. The colorful, intricate floral motifs showcase lotuses, peonies, chrysanthemums, and plum flowers blossoming in a swirl of tantalizing vinery. This ensemble of flowers, when appearing together, represents the Four Seasons, while each of the flowers carries...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Pictorial Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
This early 20th century Chinese Peking Art Deco rug, measuring 2' 11" x 5' 8", presents a captivating pastoral scene woven with charm and artistry. The central field depicts a tranqu...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Art Deco Chinese Large Room Size Rug
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful large Chinese Art Deco rug with a floral design on a sna field and plum border. Room size formats are usually found in the 8 x 10...
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1930s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Vintage Chinese Art Deco Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 9' 3" x 12' 7", features a striking, minimalist landscape design with a bold, modernist aesthetic. The composition is dominated ...
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Mid-20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Art Deco Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug, this piece is a masterful blend of symbolism and color. The soft peach-colored field is framed by a thin navy blue stripe and a...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Antique Art Deco Chinese Rug, 2' x 4' c-1920, A Happy Dear.
Located in Evanston, IL
Introducing our splendid of Imperial garden Chinese art deco rug, where artistry intertwines with symbolism. The enchanting jade multi color field hosts a majestic garden of Life...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

6 x 9 Antique Chinese Art Deco Handmade Wool Rug In Burgundy
Located in Norwalk, CT
This stunning antique Chinese Art Deco rug is expertly hand-knotted from premium wool. It features a rich burgundy background adorned with a vibrant, multicolored floral design, eleg...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Sasha Bikoff X Art Hide Red Mushroom Funghi Cushion
Located in Charlotte, NC
Introducing the Sasha Bikoff X Art Hide Collaboration - Funghi Rug, an epitome of magic and artistry in the world of interior design. Mushrooms...
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2010s Pakistani Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Cowhide

Antique Circa 1923 Taupy-Gray Chinese Art Deco Hand Knotted Rug 8'10 X 11'2
Located in New York, NY
Antique Circa 1923 Taupy-Gray Chinese Art Deco Hand Knotted Rug 8'10 X 11'2. As the term implies, true Chinese Deco carpets were woven in a s...
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20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool, Cotton

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Workshop ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 cm )
Located in New York, NY
A terrestrial/aquatic dragon rises from stylized waves while a celestial dragon descends from fungus whorl clouds with two flaming pearls in the plain areas of this black on black Ar...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

1920's Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet with Maximalist Style
Located in Dallas, TX
79119 Antique Red Chinese Art Deco Rug, 07'10 x 09'01. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a radiant example of 20th-century artistry, blending the bold aesthetics...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'8" - 91 x 142 )
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 4'8" - 91 x 142 )
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Rug
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Peking oval rug with a central field woven with a subtle tone on tone Shou character and peony pattern, and surrounded by a charming border wit...
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1920s Chinese Vintage Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

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 Rugs and Carpets

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Wool

Early 20th Century Handmade Mongolian Art Deco Style Room Size Carpet In Neutral
Located in New York, NY
An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...
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Early 20th Century Mongolian Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

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Located in New York, NY
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Located in New York, NY
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Art Deco rugs and carpets for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Art Deco rugs and carpets for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage rugs and carpets created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include rugs and carpets, wall decorations, asian art and furniture and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, wool and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Art Deco rugs and carpets made in a specific country, there are Asia, South Asia, and East Asia pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original rugs and carpets, popular names associated with this style include Art Hide, Rug & Kilim, Ground Control, and Djoharian Design. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for rugs and carpets differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $101 and tops out at $325,000 while the average work can sell for $4,975.

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