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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.

Style: Modern

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Blue and Gray, with Geometric Patterns

Modern Rugs and Carpets

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Blue and Gray, with Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Modern Textural Rug in Beige, Gray and Blue Stripes and Striae

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Gold, with Blue & Pink Geometric Pattern

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Blue and Beige, with Geometric Patterns

21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Modern Tiger Rug by Doris Leslie Blau

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Beige-Brown, with Geometric Stripes

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Blue Tones, with Diamond Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Custom Rug in Blue, with Chevron Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Beige-Brown, with Blue Geometric Pattern

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug with Polychromatic Hourglass Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Green and Beige with Geometric Stripes

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Brown with Blue, Beige Geometric Pattern

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Square Rug in Blue, with Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Custom Rug in Blue, with Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Custom Rug in Green, with Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Beige, with Colorful Geometric Pattern

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Blue Tones, with Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug with Polychromatic Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Red and Blue with Gold Geometric Pattern

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Modern Textural Rug in Peach Tones, Stripes and Striae

Late 20th Century Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Vintage Black Persian Shan Abbasi Indian Carpet

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Green, with Orange Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Gold and Pink, with Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Blue Tones, with Geometric Stripes

2010s Afghan Modern Rugs and Carpets

Large Modern wool Rug in Light Green-Gray & Lt. Blue by Keivan Woven Arts

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Green and Blue, with Geometric Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Green, with Colorful Geometric Pattern

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Gray and Blue, with Hourglass Patterns

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Beige, with Colorful Geometric Patterns

21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Modern Tiger Rug by Doris Leslie Blau

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Blue Tones, with Stripes and Patterns

21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Modern Tiger Rug by Doris Leslie Blau

21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Modern Tiger Rug by Doris Leslie Blau

21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Modern Tiger Rug by Doris Leslie Blau

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Rug in Indigo, with Red and Yellow Floral Patterns

21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Modern Tiger Rug by Doris Leslie Blau

21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Modern Tiger Rug by Doris Leslie Blau

21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Modern Tiger Rug by Doris Leslie Blau

2010s Indian Modern Rugs and Carpets

Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Rug in Beige, with Colorful Geometric Patterns

2010s Nepalese Modern Rugs and Carpets