Modern Italian rugs and carpets: tradition meets creativity

Rugs come from a charming and glorious yet cultural distant past. However, during the centuries, they were able to adapt themselves to a more modern way of life and above all to a contemporary western style: modern Italian rugs can be part of a category on their own, far away from traditional or oriental rugs and carpets.

Rugs were born for two main purposes: to warm and to decorate. There are several types of rugs and carpets and we can distinguish them according to their material, manufacturing process, shape, measures and of course according to their decorations and colours. Rugs are nowadays part of an extremely variegated world where it's practically impossible to categorize them into easily recognizable symbols : modern Italian rugs and carpets are born from the pure imagination of their creators and from the functionality that the modern techniques can give them.

These modern Italian rugs are even more charming with big measures, able in this way to attract the look of everybody, even more that other furniture pieces that usually have more importance.

The rug has to be placed in a strategic position according to its role; for example, if we want a rug to give importance to the surrounding environment we will wisely choose the colours and patterns we wish to match with the furniture, enriching in this way rooms that would otherwise appear rather featureless.

So let's boldly use modern rugs and carpets: under the dining room table, in the middle of the sitting room, in the play area of the kids room, to brighten up the hall or in the bedroom in front of the bed. The whole house will be, in this way, decorated with a easily recognizable link, giving at the same time a high impact effect.

Butterfly inlaid rug, ideal both for the living room and the kids bedroom. Its huge images (the important is not to cover the rug with too many furniture pieces!) remind the pattern of those Romans mosaic used as floors in their splendid villas.

Carré viscose and wool rug is perfect for every kind of environments, even under the dining table, and can give character to every bare room.

Dalia square rug by Calligaris reminds the tradition of floral patterns, born centuries ago, but designed in strongly contemporary way and able to characterize with its strong visual impact a whole environment.

Chic rug with shaped corner couldn't have a better name, because its charm is really astonishing: the design is realized with three different thicknesses and has an extremely elegant protrusion on a corner; the decoration is in this way not only impressed on the surface but is an integral part of the rug itself becoming a sort of sculpture.