David Rockwell’s New Rug Collection Plays With Nature’s Contrasts

Interior Design Hall of Famer and multidisciplinary creative David Rockwell has collaborated with London-based The Rug Company since 2010. “Throughout, we’ve explored an obsession with nature’s contrasts,” Rockwell says of the partnership. His new collection, Flow as Form, continues in that vein, taking water as the wellspring of inspiration and showcasing its many natural forms. There’s wool-and-silk Falls in moody Graphite, where sinuous lines flow like currents; Fjord, a wool number inspired by frozen water, in Flint and Frost; and Splash in blue-hued Sea or rosy Salmon, its painterly strokes mimicking turbulent waters. In-stock and made-to-order rectangular sizes plus puddle-shaped, runner, and round versions provide the ground for the collection’s quiet drama.