This charming little antique Arts and Crafts rug from Europe has a multi-colored reciprocal pattern of circles and concave squares.  

This strikingly modern Art Deco rug from France is like a stained glass window by Chagall.

This incomparable antique Art Deco Chinese rug has a modern geometric design that unfolds with mathematical precision.

A radial design reminiscent of a rising sun spreads luminously across the field of this striking American Deco hooked rug.

 Although the color and design are Art Deco, the basic form of the design on this striking piece still relates to the classic Oriental rug medallion design. 

Although the color and design are Art Deco, the basic form of the design on this striking piece still relates to the classic Oriental rug medallion design. 

This classically Art Deco rug treads the line between decorative abstraction and representation with its suggestion of mountains, rivers, sun and clouds.

This striking antique Portuguese Art Deco rug is remarkably modern in its linear, graph-like geometry.

This stunning antique Oriental Art Deco rug from China features a bold modernist asymmetrical array of diagonals and rectilinear geometric or biomorphic forms across the field.

This hand-woven rug from India was designed by the greatest abstract master of the 20th century  Pablo Picasso.

This splendid Norwegian antique deco rug has a Neo-classical design and palette related more to modish French Savonnerie carpets and Aubusson tapestries than to Scandinavian n rugs.

This remarkable contemporary Ecuadorian rug from the 1950's depicts a circular array of hunters chasing ostriches and pumas.

This smart antique Oriental Chinese Art Deco rug boasts a flowering vase and hovering tree branches within a spacious  field.

This extraordinary modernist / Bauhaus French flat weave, taken from Wassily Kandinsky's watercolor "Horizontales,"  is a masterpiece of Abstract Expressionism.

This grand Art Deco carpet has a classic modernist pattern of intersecting circles and crescents in shades of mauve, taupe, sand, and cocoa.

This exquisitely subtle and restrained antique Oriental Chinese Art Deco rug is graced by a scalloped border of dark brown enclosing a golden sand field.

This exquisitely subtle and restrained antique Oriental Chinese Art Deco rug is graced by a scalloped border of dark brown enclosing a golden sand field.

These incredible rugs have become known as 'apprentice' rugs.

 A strikingly modern design is set against a clear ivory ground on this rug designed by the noted Israeli architect Yakov Agam

This stunningly classic Art Deco carpet from the 1930's revels in the beauty of pure geometry and exquisite color.

This extraordinary French Art Deco carpet is adapted from the famous Ice Age cave paintings discovered at Lascaux in the southwest of France.

This striking antique Turkish Art Deco rug is remarkably modern in its linear, graph-like geometry.

This striking antique Turkish Art Deco rug is remarkably modern in its abrstact, expressive geometry.

This imposing Art Deco carpet is the epitome of Modernist sophisticated simplicity.

This elegant antique French Arts and Crafts carpet is still very much in the Savonnerie tradition with elements of the Arts and Crafts Movement as well.

This exciting antique Art Deco carpet from France has a dynamic design of light on dark triangles radiating outwoard from the center of the composition.

This spectacular Art Deco rug from France has a composition utilizing blocks of complementary color and line expressively, like a Modernist painting by Klee or Mondrian.

While this beautiful antique carpet is a study in modernist abstraction, it still may conceal a wealth of traditional Oriental forms.

This spectacular antique Art Deco carpet has a dazzling pattern of abstract geometry unfolding in total asymmetry across the virtually border-less field.

The field of this lovely antique Swedish tapestry rug or Rollakan consists of simple blocks of color reminiscent of the paintings of Mondrian and Klee.

This stunning antique Deco utilizes a design of concentric curves arcing down diagonally across the surface in varied shades of tan.

Although stridently abstract and modern in its drawing, this antique Swedish Rollakan is still traditional in its design.

This charming antique Scandinavian carpet with its border of allover geometric flowers derives from the tradition of Swedish flatwoven tapestries or Rollakan.

 This lively and exciting antique French Deco carpet offers an unusual European reinterpretation of the classic Chinese design.

The field of this lovely antique French Deco is dramatically empty, yielding pride of place to a bold, sweeping border

This Art Deco masterpiece is classically modern in its bold and simple geometry and its limited yet highly evocative palette.

This extraordinary Art Deco Swedish Arts and Crafts carpet with its striking design of allover medallions harks back to medieval Scandinavian textiles.

This magnificent Art Deco Spanish carpet displays a staggered pattern of rich saffron palmettes going back to Umayyad sources.

This charming antique French Deco carpet (in the syle of Jacques Emile Ruhlmann) reinterprets the naturalistic floral repertoire of nineteenth century Savonnerie rugs within a new  

 This lively and exciting antique French Deco carpet offers an unusual Arts and Crafts European reinterpretation of the classic oriental design.

This magnificent antique English carpet stands midway between the world of Oriental rugs and those of Europe.