Edward Fields Remakes a Legacy

The Legacy Edition’s Spring Thaw, a new pattern featuring taupe and pale grey feathers of loose, dull silk cut-pile.

Edward Fields was known for a lot of things—elaborate floral stairway carpeting custom-fit for each step in a flight; wide swaths of undulating patterns in psychedelic colors; carpeting the White House under every president since JFK—but subtlety isn’t one of them. Yet perhaps it should be.

Guided by Yasmina Benazzou,

Edward Fields Carpet Makers

’ director of design and creative development, the fabled company has launched a reissue program called The Legacy Edition. “[It’s] a tribute to Edward Fields’ signature craft and expertise during the most understated chapter of the brand’s heritage,” Benazzou says.

From left: South Wind, Spring Thaw, Sudden Impulse.

Understated, certainly, but still innovative. Fields’ unerring sense of color is here often embodied in juxtapositions of deniers, so light and shadow create shades of blue, taupe, grey, and Bordeaux. Materials create their own patterns, as well—jute, sisal, and flax offer texture for the light to change.

Neutral renditions of favorites from the 1930s, 50s, 70s, and 80s are complimented by a few new patterns, ensuring new markets will be floored by Fields’ legacy.

The Legacy Edition’s Sudden Impulse, a new version of the iconic 1930s Embassy Court that satisfies the current chevron craze with dark petrol blue wool and silk.