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...The designs can be produced as fitted carpets as well as rugs and runners to be used on staircases and floors....
...The audience is clasped, with the actors, in a brightly lit, carpet-clad space: the rich, warm rugs of Magda Willi’s set extend up the walls and across the stage....
...But design magazines, awash with “conversation pits and shag pile carpets” changed that: “I saw this world of glamour and beauty that sung in my heart.”...
...“They blur the edges of a room and eliminate gaps in a way that rugs can’t.”...
...Rugs to riches The Karims of Keighley have done rather well out of Victoria plc....
...“Suzanis, yes; blue and white Islamic ceramics, yes; mellow oriental carpets, very much so. But nothing flash or ‘look at me’ about it.”...
...upholstery, or a turbocharged mixture of both for once-beautiful rugs now covered in god-knows-what....
...Or Gates, resplendent in a silk-embroidered robe coat with Nehru collar, posing minutes, presumably, before he hit the dance floor to cut the rug....
...Crucially, Auctionet provides shipping costs up front, and they are very reasonable — I had a rug shipped to my door from Stockholm for around £80, less than what I’d pay to courier it from most parts of...
...Power dressing — for floorsInspired carpets: Rugs hark back to the 1980s with primary-hued, hand-woven jacquard floor coverings that pack a geometric punch....
...The auditor ink stain on a UK carpet roll-up Charles Koch is best known as the billionaire who turned his father’s 300-person oil and ranching business into America’s second-largest private company while...
...It is furnished in a 1960s retro style, adorned with Algerian and French film posters, full of records, magazines, rugs, Algerian decorative objects....
...The room had been staged with a brick-coloured rug, cabinet and long wall lights, and it made me think that the models were like guests at a soirée for the art crowd in a chic apartment....
...“Jaipur Rugs is still a family business, making handmade carpets only in India but now has a network of about 40,000 artisans – more than 90 per cent of whom are women and who mostly work from their homes...
...Although beginning with a rug is certainly a great approach, doing it the other way around can produce an equally brilliant result. In a colourful room, I often appreciate a neutral carpet....
...Weaver Green pioneered the rug woven from plastic waste, while Peter Page and Jennifer Manners do equally colourful versions to sit under bath mats....
...and leopard-motif carpets....
...David and Sara Bamford are restorers and conservers of antique rugs and carpets, and handweavers of bespoke carpets, mainly for historic houses and public buildings....
...On a June morning on Finland’s shores, you are just as likely to witness the annual carpet wash, where rugs are scrubbed in salt water before being left out to dry....
...Her team cuts two tonnes of rush a day by hand: they turn this sandy-toned, straw-like grass into table placemats, seat cushions, baskets, carpets and rugs....
...At the 95th Academy Awards, held in Los Angeles on Sunday night, the famously crimson carpet was replaced with a “champagne carpet” — a warm, off-white rug that looked as if it should be kept far, far away...
...But as important as the abstract rugs themselves are the show’s other practical creations: braided rag rugs, knitted patchwork-covered chairs and cushions, bags, scarves, dresses, woollen suits, tea and...
...Deliberately eschewing what he calls “in-your-face luxury”, Tessier designed all the furniture, lamps, fabrics and rugs, everything bar a Hans Wegner Kennedy chair and Gio Ponti desk that furnish an afterthought...
...Smart reads From rugs to riches Drop everything you are doing and read this insane story by DD’s Robert Smith on how an alleged ex-gang member is tied to the Koch Industries-backed royal carpet maker Victoria...
...The ensemble includes an armchair, bench, coffee table, rugs and lamps but the standout piece is the cotton and velvet Pavo sofa, inspired by the gardens beside the Bosphorus in Istanbul....
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