Essays on design, craft and the art of the floor
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A Home for People: Eileen Gray and the Art of t...
She named her shop after a man who didn't exist. She named her house in code. She named her rugs after Roman emperors, Mediterranean coastlines, and the Irish home she...
A Home for People: Eileen Gray and the Art of t...
She named her shop after a man who didn't exist. She named her house in code. She named her rugs after Roman emperors, Mediterranean coastlines, and the Irish home she...
The Doctor Who Unravelled Rugs: Ivan Da Silva B...
He came to rug design with a scalpel. What he built with it changed interiors forever. Paris, 1917. France is four years into a war that has consumed a generation....
The Doctor Who Unravelled Rugs: Ivan Da Silva B...
He came to rug design with a scalpel. What he built with it changed interiors forever. Paris, 1917. France is four years into a war that has consumed a generation....
The Secret Colour: Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and t...
When the most celebrated furniture designer of the 20th century turned his attention to the floor, something unexpected happened. Paris, April 1925. The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes...
The Secret Colour: Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann and t...
When the most celebrated furniture designer of the 20th century turned his attention to the floor, something unexpected happened. Paris, April 1925. The Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes...
What's in a Name
A name on a rug is not decoration. It is not branding in the conventional sense — a borrowed prestige, a cultural veneer applied after the fact. At Scott's Shop,...
What's in a Name
A name on a rug is not decoration. It is not branding in the conventional sense — a borrowed prestige, a cultural veneer applied after the fact. At Scott's Shop,...
The Woman Who Rewrote Rug History
In the London boutique of The Row on New Bond Street, among the most considered retail interiors in the city, a rug sits beneath an ochre sofa as if it...
The Woman Who Rewrote Rug History
In the London boutique of The Row on New Bond Street, among the most considered retail interiors in the city, a rug sits beneath an ochre sofa as if it...
Anton Zwemmer and the Gallery That Kept the Mod...
At 78 Charing Cross Road, Anton Zwemmer built the most important art bookshop in London — and then, around the corner, a gallery that introduced Britain to Dalí, the Surrealists,...
Anton Zwemmer and the Gallery That Kept the Mod...
At 78 Charing Cross Road, Anton Zwemmer built the most important art bookshop in London — and then, around the corner, a gallery that introduced Britain to Dalí, the Surrealists,...
Josef Albers and the Bauhaus: How a Lifetime of...
Josef Albers spent twenty-six years at the Bauhaus and beyond proving that colour is never just itself — it is always the colours around it. The Josef rug is made...
Josef Albers and the Bauhaus: How a Lifetime of...
Josef Albers spent twenty-six years at the Bauhaus and beyond proving that colour is never just itself — it is always the colours around it. The Josef rug is made...
The Designer Before the Painter: Francis Bacon'...
Before the screaming popes and dissolved figures, Francis Bacon was designing furniture and rugs in London. The work is geometric, assured, and almost overlooked. London, 1930. At a studio and...
The Designer Before the Painter: Francis Bacon'...
Before the screaming popes and dissolved figures, Francis Bacon was designing furniture and rugs in London. The work is geometric, assured, and almost overlooked. London, 1930. At a studio and...
Maja Hoffmann — Marylebone Interior with Jean R...
An intimate view of Maja Hoffmann’s Marylebone interior, featuring furniture by Jean Royère and Charlotte Perriand, with a sculptural lamp by Franz West — captured through the lens of François...
Maja Hoffmann — Marylebone Interior with Jean R...
An intimate view of Maja Hoffmann’s Marylebone interior, featuring furniture by Jean Royère and Charlotte Perriand, with a sculptural lamp by Franz West — captured through the lens of François...