red rug with a long arm
Photography courtesy of Cold Picnic.

8 Artisans Crafting The Future Of Flooring

See how these designers are pushing the boundaries of creativity with flooring solutions that transform spaces into stunning works of art.

Meet The Artisans Wiping The Floor With These Innovative Solutions

1. Brian Coleman for Knots Rugs

Product: The Getting By
Standout: The contemporary painter’s brushwork has the instinctual spontaneity of a flock of birds in flight, the fluid and rhythmic motifs transliterated from acrylic, ink, and graphite on canvas to a wool-and-silk rug.

2. Feruccio Laviani for Illulian

Product: Symi
Standout: Gestural strokes in opposing colors intersect, overlap, and separate to create gaps through which the floor can be glimpsed in the Milan-based architect’s wool rug woven in Nepal.

3. Malene Barnett for Ruggable

Product: Ruggable x Malene Barnett
Standout: The women-led rug brand teamed with the Black Artists + Designers Guild founder on rugs that honor aspects of African heritage, from Malian mudcloth to Nuba body art.

4. Athena Calderone for Beni

Product: Metropolis
Standout: The Insta-darling turned designer juggernaut channels her New York apartment’s art deco detailing into ornamental rectilinear shapes applied to the manufacturer’s debut low-pile knotted rugs. Eye swoon!

5. Barbara Ghidoni, Marco Donati, and Michele Pasini for Battilossi

Product: Celsius
Standout: The Storage Milano founders’ four designs, each in a dis- tinct weaving methodology, showcase iterations of a single pattern—see the ethereal ebb and flow of this Tibetan wool stunner, shown in the Night Lawn colorway.

6. Brigette Romanek for Loloi

Product: Knox
Standout: As cozy as a knitted sweater, the interior designer’s checkerboard pattern blends wool, polyester, and cotton fibers and is GoodWeave–certified, ensuring adherence to the highest ethical standards.

7. Nikodem Szpunar for Moooi

Product: Big Scale
Standout: For the Shape collection, the Warsaw-based abstract painter treats polyamide carpet as his canvas, generously scaling up his bold brushstrokes in blue ink, gold, green, or red wine colorways.

8. Phoebe Sung and Peter Buer of Cold Picnic

Product: Embrace
Standout: Stemming from the Brooklyn-based partners’ family art session in the countryside, the anthropomorphic series includes a New Zealand wool rug outlined with a playful arm motif, as if embraced by a nurturing hug.

read more