Midcentury Swedish Yellow and Brown Flat-Weave Wool Rug BB6156 5'7" × 7'9" $8,000

This circa-1940 vintage Swedish flat weave rug features an all-over design of chartreuse yellow bands alternating in lightness framed by a large checkerboard-style main border with geometric accents in dark brown and blue. A thin outer brown border completes the look of the midcentury vintage carpet, signed by the artist. In Sweden, carpets and antique area 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 Vintage oriental rugs that had a broad international appeal. Scandinavian style 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.