Art Carpet 2.0: Bold Graphics No Longer Swept Under the Rug

A couple of years ago, the Art Production Fund collaborated with ABC Carpet to produce a line of rugs designed by such artists as Hernan Bas, Richard Phillips (at right), Rob Pruitt, and Sarah Morris. And the idea of adorning one’s floor with fluffy (and usually more affordable) versions of the canvases coveted for walls caught on. In a feature in today’s Los Angeles Times, Janet Eastman suspects that a new art rug trend is underfoot: “graphic illustrations of sex, drugs, and other not-so-PG themes rendered by designers who look to the floor as an uncensored canvas.”

Eastman points to designers such as Jorgen Evil Ekvoll and Can Sayinli, whose “War” rug is a woven silk tableau of blood and guns.

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