Designer Rug Blog - Interior Design Inspiration

The most beautiful Art Deco rugs are also the simplest. I have avoided the over embellished in selecting these 12 favorite Art Deco interiors. I hope you will enjoy looking at them and they spark ideas for your interior design work.

When we hear the words Martha's Vineyard we imagine picturesque New England sea captains' houses, white picket fences, solitary lighthouses atop green hills, pristine beaches and rolling farmland. In recent years Martha's Vineyard has also become associated with vacationing Clintons and Obamas as well as the elite from all over North America.

Julian Sands and Helena Bonham Carter in the 1985 movie "A Room with a View" . Image Courtesy Merchant Ivory Productions.

Green is the color of nature and we are surrounded by greenery. The 15 inspiring interiors in todays post and the 12 Stunning Interiors with Green Rugs in an earlier post show how leading interior designers decorate with green rugs and green accents. Together these 27 rooms show you how to:

Ferguson and Shamamian did both the architecture and the interior design of this Los Angeles Mansion. Image courtesy Ferguson and Shamamian.

Ferguson and Shamamiam chose a subtle tone on tone cream and gold oriental rug as a foundation for this elegant Park Avenue dining Room. Note how the wide border promotes a stately ambience. Image courtesy Ferguson and Shamamiam.

Park Avenue New York has a style and refinement of it's own.  At the same time, the owners desire their guests have an enjoyable dining expereince in an environment that promotes lively conversation in comfort. Ferguson and Shamamian have created a dining room that achieves all these goals.

Ferguson and Shamamian assembled fine period furniture, gilded mirrors and silk draperies. There are several key messages conveyed and the cream and gold oriental rug ties all of the messages together in a unified expereince:

Elegance - the subtelty of the tone on tone oriental rug creates a refined background for the room, laying the framework for the artistry of the decor. Just as an artist uses a canvas, the soft background colors of the rug communicate the message and feelings from the beginning.  This oriental rug conveys a level of elegance that all other objects in the room echo.