20th Century Blue and White Floreal Swans Rug by Reginald Toms, circa 1920

The term Savonerie identifies a series of carpets knotted with Turkish knot and adorned with floral designs, made in Europe in various manufactories. The most famous and the one that gives the name to these carpets was settled in Paris in an ancient soap factory. Its foundation was an attempt by France in the seventeenth century to reproduce the expensive oriental carpets, but the main feature of these carpets is the Western style decor, which introduced an absolute novelty in the furnishings of the time. The productions of Savonerie over the years have become multiple, the most popular in addition to the French are the Spanish and Austrian. They were manufactories created specifically to produce large carpets intended for sumptuous noble palaces. Since the end of the 19th century many manufactories have also begun to produce carpets of different sizes, always with a decoration dictated by a Western style furniture...

Carpet from the Missoni HOME collection that in the eighties was produced by T&J Vestor which is located in the factories of Golasecca (Varese) on the banks of Ticino, where it was f...

The French factory in Aubusson is famous both for the production of wall tapestries and for the weaving of beautiful floor rugs. Both of these textiles, always of high quality, were ...

Savonerie carpet made by designer Gabriel Englinger (1898–1983) representative of the model of aesthetic taste that spread in Europe and the United States between the “roaring Twenti...

This is a vintage Scandinavian Kilim from the mid-20th century. It features dainty geometric florals rendered in a lattice work pattern of soft blues, pinks, and yellow greens which ...

This is a Swedish kilim rug from the mid-20th century. It is signed "IS" by designer Ingegerd Silow. It features geometric forms bordering the perimeter of the rug in a warm yellows ...

This is a Swedish Kilim rug from the mid-20th century. It is signed "IS" by designer Ingegerd Silow. It features geometric shapes rendered in happy warm colors with a creative take o...

This is a Scandinavian flat-woven rug from the mid-20th century. It is signed by the designer. The color palette comprises of gentle shades of pink, icy blue, ivory, and brown in com...