Fashion designer Diane van Furstenberg is well known for her this beautiful rug, named Tribal Diamond, for The Rug Company (they have stores in London, LA and New York). I love the African vibe!

The painted carpets in Paola Navona’s Greek home reminds me of Catherine’s Patterned Floor that was featured on Design*Sponge. Catherine is the first price winner of the Lena Corwin Printing by Hand contest. To celebrate the launch of lena’s book, Printing by Hand, Design*Sponge had a contest to find the reader with the best use [...]

The work of Dutch designer Wendy Plomp has been featured in Dutch magazines but recently I also saw her cardboard carpets ‘message in a box’ in ELLE Decoration UK. Cardboard is probably the cheapest industrial packaging material available on the market. Any image that is printed onto this typically throwaway material can turn into a [...]

When I saw this photo on Flickr I was immediately drawn to that gorgeous carpet. Esther from The Netherlands made this carpet out of the collection embroideries that she had collected. The result is this work of art! Esther is known for her beautiful bags which have been featured in various Dutch magazines. Check out [...]

Edward Fields was known as the carpet designer to stars like Princess Grace of Monaco and Mary Tyler Moore from the 1950s to the 1970s. The company of this late designer, who considered his rugs art for the floor, was purchased by Tai Ping carpets two years ago. With the opening of a new showroom [...]

This rug is perfect for people who like to puzzle! PuzzlePerser is a Persian inspired rug created by German product designer Katrin Sonnleitner. Nine different colors have been used to create this beautiful and playful pattern. The puzzle pieces used for the rugs are made of a recyclable mix of both natural and synthetic rubber. [...]

Have you always wanted a flying carpet? Then you should check out this carpet from Spanish rug company Nanimarquina. Flying Carpet is designed by Spanish designers Ara Mir and Emili Padros. The rug is hand loomed, made from 100% New Zealand wool. Visit the Nanimarquina website for more information.

Remember those beautiful carpets from Dutch designer Kiki van Eijk that were featured on the style files last year (it was one of my first posts!)? I received a message from Kiki that she now has a new design: a carpet made from bricks. Isn’t it gorgeous?!

Remember the rug with the tire pattern that was featured here on the style files not that long ago? Apartment Therapy also posted about this rug as well and this post got mixed comments. The general feeling is that people like the creative idea behind it but would not have the rug in their own [...]

Not that long ago I saw this bag on Dutch blog Grijs and was struck by the simple beauty of it. Bag Take a way is designed by Diane Sterverlynck from Brussels, Belgium. The bag is a copy of our well known plastic bags, made with one singel piece of leather. This soft object can [...]

I can’t remember where I have seen this rug, but I am intrigued by it ever since. Perhaps it is not something I would buy for my living room but I love the creative idea behind it. The rug with tire print is designed by Madeleine and Dudly Edwards. These applied artists from the UK [...]

I love nature inspired designs. If you do too then I am sure you will appreciate this post about the gorgeous carpets from 2 Form Design. The carpets, resembling for instance a dry riverbed or desert sand, are produced in-house and (hand) made from the highest quality materials. The small design studio from Norway is [...]

Born and raised in The Netherlands, a country that is known for its flower culture, Celia Suzanne Sluijter is inspired by flowers and plants. The designer is always looking for applications to plant ‘nature’ as you do when you garden. In The Netherlands trees are longer bare than in leave. With her flower and plant [...]

Like The Netherlands, Finland has many great young designers. One of them is Yuki Abe, a student at the University of Art and Design in Helsinki. The Finnish designer has previously been working at a interior architecture office but is now concentration on the final stage of his study. His design motto is “Form [...]

The Rug Company works together with well known designers to create the most gorgeous rugs. The UK based company features an extensive list of designers from Diane von Furstenberg and Paul Smith to Matthew Williamson and Vivienne Westwood, each offering gorgeous designs in their own signature style. Christopher Sharp, founder of The Rug Company, says [...]

Christien Meindertma’s label FLOCKS is the result of her cooperation with a farmer in Wales. The Dutch designer created a clothing collection from the wool of a small flock of the farmer’s sheep. Each garment in the collection was produced from the wool of one single sheep. Her new Black Sheep collection is celebrating the [...]

Tord Boontje designed this gorgeous rug for Nanimarquina. This Spanish company, created in 1987, is well known for their colourful hand tufted, loomed and knotted rugs. They work with various well known designers, such a Boontje. His rug, Little Fields of Flowers, is available in shades of purple, red and green. This rugs shows, like [...]

Over the years the internationally acclaimed Design Academy in Eindhoven has produced many great designers. One of them is Kiki van Eijk who graduated cum laude at the Design Academy in 2000. Now Kiki’s own collection is presented in galleries and museums in cities as London, Paris, New York, Milan, Tokyo, and Amsterdam.

Kiki’s most well [...]