Vintage Handmade Rug BB6061 8'5" × 12'0" $24,000

This circa-1940 vintage Swedish flat weave area rug features an all-over design of geometric abstracts of botanical motifs and linear patterns in shades of rust, beige and brown against a field of bone-white. Minimalist and stark, the mid-century vintage carpet is part of a unique modernist tradition. In Sweden, carpets and vintage style rugs have been hand-knotted in wool for centuries, taking on many different forms and functions over the course of time. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the craft was seen as being an important artistic and cultural practice throughout Sweden, and designers began to make antique rugs that had a broad international appeal. Scandinavian rugs from the mid-twentieth century, endorsed by such fixtures of modernism as Le Corbusier, Ray Eames and Frank Lloyd Wright, remain among the most desirable and sought after in the rug world.