Modern Rugs and Carpets
MODERN STYLE
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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Style: Modern
Period: Late 20th Century
Vintage Indian Rug with Transitional Style and Golden Hues and Modern Style
Located in Dallas, TX
76900 Vintage Indian Rug with Transitional Style and Golden Hues and Modern Style. Balance golden hues and an elegantly cusped lozenge pattern in this vintage Indian rug with transit...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Romanian Rug, Casual Elegance Meets Stylish Durability
Located in Dallas, TX
77223 Vintage Romanian Rug, 08'04 x 12'00.
Casual elegance meets stylish durability in this vintage Romanian rug. The decorative detailing an warm earth-tone colors woven into this p...
Category
Late 20th Century Romanian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Gold Tibetan Area Rug with Modern Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
76872, vintage gold Tibetan area rug with Modern traditional style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Tibetan area rug features an all-over pattern of na...
Category
Late 20th Century Tibetan Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Minimal Modern Carpet "Snow Rose", ideal for Bed Bottom
By Joao Rolo
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
Modern rug Snow Rose - On the wall it becomes a beautiful bed bottom !
Formas Collection -
nr. 1295 -
Category
Late 20th Century Portuguese Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Square Tibetan Rug with Large-Scale Geometric Flower Pattern
Located in Dallas, TX
72906, Transitional style square vintage Tibetan rug with large-scale geometric flower pattern. This hand knotted wool Tibetan carpet features a la...
Category
Late 20th Century Tibetan Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Turkish Pala Patchwork Kilim Rug, Flat-Weave Rug
Located in Dallas, TX
51583, Turkish Pala Patchwork Kilim rug. Mixing various patterns and colors create a stunning design in this Pala Patchwork Kilim rug. Featuring both wide and narrow bands in fun col...
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Persian Kashan with Modern Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
74320 vintage Persian Kashan with modern traditional style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Kashan rug features a modern traditional style. A grand medallion takes centre stag...
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Persian Style Rug with Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
76703, vintage Persian style rug with traditional style. Opulent and whimsical, this hand knotted wool vintage Persian style rug with traditi...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinese Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool, Silk
Vintage Blue Beni MGuild Moroccan Rug, Modern Boho Meets Marrakech Paradise
By Beni M'Guild
Located in Dallas, TX
20645 Vintage Blue Beni MGuild Moroccan Rug, 05'10 x 10'04.
In the enchanting realm of Shibui aesthetics, discover the allure of this hand-kn...
Category
Late 20th Century Moroccan Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Turkish Anatolian Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Turkish Anatolian rug from the late 20th century with a diagonal pattern of elongated hexagons in alternating colors of light and dark green.
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Turkish Tulu Rug
Located in New York, NY
A midcentury Turkish long pile rug having an open creamy yellow field. Pics seen are with and without a flash.
Measures: 4'9" x 6'8".
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Persian Style Rug with Tradition Modern Design
Located in Dallas, TX
74642, vintage Persian style rug with tradition modern design. This hand-knotted wool vintage Persian style rug features a large-scale tradit...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Moroccan Hand Knotted Wool Rug
Located in Stamford, CT
A Moroccan hand knotted wool rug. Rabat.
Category
1970s Moroccan Vintage Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Modern Rugs Orange Fine Contemporary Rugs, Carpet from Afghanistan
Located in Hampshire, GB
With rich colours and abstract elements, this woven rug gives a subtle contemporary appearance. The geometric rug is featuring beautiful rust and gold colour. This deep red rug is grounded in stylish colours that will add a touch of modernized sophistication to nearly any space. These modern patterned rugs...
Category
1990s Afghan Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Organic Material
Antique Persian Mashhad Rug with Soft, Light Colors
Located in Dallas, TX
51543, antique Persian Mashhad rug. This hand-knotted wool antique Persian Mashhad rug features an all-over Herati pattern surrounded by a complementary Herati and rosette border in ...
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Persian Mahal Rug with Traditional Style
Located in Dallas, TX
75832, vintage Persian Mahal rug with traditional style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Mahal rug features a centre cruciform cross-like medallion with an all-over botanical ...
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Oversized Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 11’08 x 20’00
Located in Dallas, TX
74373 Vintage Turkish Sivas Rug, 11’08 x 20’00. Nestled in the heart of central Anatolia, Turkey, the enchanting Sivas rugs emerge as masterpieces of flawless artistry and mesmerizin...
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Indian Rug with Traditional Style and All-Over Floral Design
Located in Dallas, TX
76709, vintage Indian rug with traditional style and all-over floral design. This opulent traditional style rug features a warm spice colored field blooming with lush, intricate palm...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Gabbeh Indian Rug with Four Seasons Design
Located in Dallas, TX
Primary colors integrated with a rich patina, this vintage Gabbeh Indian rug features the Four Seasons design with a traditional modern style. Classically composed and boasting a tru...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Brown Modern Turkish Minimalist Kilim
Located in New York, NY
One of a kind Turkish Kilim in brown
7' x 10'4''
Category
1990s Turkish Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vegetable Dyed Kilim
Located in New York, NY
Neutral colored vegetable dyed wool Kilim.
Very unusual that it's in a neutral pallet.
Made in Eastern Europe.
Category
Late 20th Century Croatian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Modern Persian Kilim Style Flat-Weave Rug
Located in New York, NY
A modern Persian Kilim style flat-woven carpet from the fourth quarter of the 20th century.
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Indian Vintage Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Persian Modernist Rug
Located in New York, NY
A Persian modernist carpet from the fourth quarter of the 20th century. The rug is woven with repurposed old wool to create a vintage look and feel.
Measures: 9' 11" x 12' 4"
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Turkish Modernist Rug
Located in New York, NY
A Turkish modernist carpet from the fourth quarter of the 20th century. The rug is woven with repurposed old wool to create a vintage look and feel.
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Indo Modern Rug
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Indo Modern rug
Measurement: 9'11" x 11'10".
Category
1990s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Mashad Art Deco Style Black and Red Rug
Located in New York, NY
A Mashad Art Deco style carpet from the second half of the 20th century.
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Persian Modernist Rug
Located in New York, NY
A Persian modernist carpet from the late fourth quarter of the 20th century woven with repurposed old wool to give it a vintage feel.
Category
1990s Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Turkish Modernist Square Shag Rug in Coral and Black
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary Turkish Shag rug in square format handmade during the late 20th century in coral and black.
Measures: 7' 2" x 7' 10".
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vegetable Dyed Dark Brown and Cream Kilim
Located in New York, NY
Vegetable dyed dark brown and cream Kilim. Made in Eastern Europe.
Reversible.
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Modern Persian Flat-Weave Kilim Style Rug
Located in New York, NY
A modern Persian flat-woven Kilim style carpet from the fourth quarter of the 20th century. This rug was woven with repurposed old wool to give it a vintage look and feel.
Measures:...
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Persian Modernist Rug
Located in New York, NY
A Persian carpet with a modernist design from the fourth quarter of the 20th century. This carpet was woven with repurposed old wool to resemble vintage patina.
Category
1990s Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Persian Modernist Rug
Located in New York, NY
A Persian modernist carpet from the fourth quarter of the 20th century. This carpet was woven with repurposed old wool to give it a vintage look and feel.
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Persian Modernist Rug
Located in New York, NY
A Persian modernist carpet from the fourth quarter of the 20th century. This carpet was woven with repurposed old wool to give it a vintage look and feel.
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Outstanding Vintage Eileen Gray 'Blackboard' Rug by Ecart International
By Eileen Gray
Located in Portlaoise, IE
After an original design by Eileen Gray, Acquired are delighted to present a rare opportunity to purchase this ‘Blackboard’ rug which was produced under licence by Ecart Internationa...
Category
1980s French Vintage Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Missoni "Art Collection" Carpet in Geometrical Design
By Missoni
Located in Firenze, IT
One of the iconic themes of Mason Misssoni's productions is reproposed in the carpets of the Saguaro collection (large cacti). Carpets hand-knotted in India and signed Missoni Art. T...
Category
1980s Indian Vintage Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Oversize White Brown Striped Turkish Kilim
Located in New York, NY
A large one-of-a-kind Turkish Kilim with a soft and ivory striped motif from the third quarter of the 20th century.
Measures: 11' x 14'.
Category
Late 20th Century Turkish Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Italian Modern Design Rug/Carpet
Located in London, GB
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Vintage Persian Design Traditional Pakistani Rug with Federal Style
Located in Dallas, TX
74583 vintage Persian Design Traditional Pakistani rug with Federal style. This hand knotted wool vintage Persian style area rug features an ...
Category
Late 20th Century Pakistani Modern Rugs and Carpets
Materials
Wool
Modern rugs and carpets for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern 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 and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, wool and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern rugs and carpets made in a specific country, there are Asia, South Asia, and India 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 Rug & Kilim, cc-tapis, Woven Concepts, and Nanimarquina. 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 $105 and tops out at $100,692 while the average work can sell for $5,964.
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