Vintage Swedish Rug, Origin: Sweden, Circa: Mid-20th Century – This posh vintage carpet from Sweden is a stylistic dichotomy featuring sharp geometric designs with hard angles that are tempered by soft pastel colors. Borrowing from the machine-age geometry of the art deco era, this elegant mid-century kilim displays a graphic repeating pattern with crenellated tiles, colorful quatrefoils and light linear accents that blur the boundaries between positive and negative space.
Soft periwinkle blues and cool celadon greens appear behind a secondary layer of flower-like quatrefoils. These layered motifs effectively divide the composition and define the edges of the colored blocks and neutral-tone background motifs. The designer accomplishes contrast in space, color and form without losing the streamlined geometric appearance that gives this carpet its modern mid-century appearance and slight art deco flavor that was infused at the beginning of the Scandinavian rugs handcraft revival.
