French Art Deco Handmade Wool Rug BB3141 8'0" × 11'0" $20,000

A hand-woven vintage rug with modernist design. The vertically-striped brick red and tan field with artistic overblown leaf forms suggestive of brushstrokes in ivory and yellow.

Art Deco is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before World War I. The Art Deco movement led to a fast evolution of the rug and textile design, among other art forms. Rug design evolved from traditional floral and highly ornamental to a style of angular elegance with geometric, abstract and modern figurative motifs. The design is frequently spare, geometric, and architectural. The rugs created during this period remain elegant and refined to this day.