| ...s and impeccable workmanship. marc phillips decorative rugs always returns
home feeling confident that they have both created and selected, the world's
best rugs.
travels to ancient lands like nepal, india, pakistan, china, romania and turkey,
instill a revolutionary design esthetic that can not be matched. the culture,
art and history of these countries inspire the exclusive marc phill... |
| ...rary centres of knotted carpet production are: lahore and peshawar (pakistan), kashmir (india / pakistan), mirzapur, bhadohi, tabriz (iran), afghanistan, armenia, azerbaijan, turkey, northern africa, nepal, spain, turkmenistan, and tibet. the importance of carpets in the culture of turkmenistan is such that the national flag features a vertical red stripe near the hoist side, containing five carpe... |
| ...land, these hardy tibetan refugees received the support of the swiss government and began a cottage industry of carpet weaving. this industry was intended to sell rugs to the growing tourist trade in nepal. during this period, most of the carpets produced were traditional designs in small sizes.
in the late 70's, floor-covering buyers from germany came to nepal and began purchasing plain field (b... |
| ...cape, furniture, home design products, and accessories.
over the course of six months, each of the five winners designed a rug, which was hand-woven on landry & arcari’s goodweave-certified looms in nepal. the completed rugs were displayed at a 5 under 40 awards ceremony and then actioned off with all proceeds benefiting barakat, a cambridge, massachusetts based charity that works to empower educ... |