Additional Features

• This 3' x 13' vintage Art Deco runner from 1940, is a rare and unique modernist oriental rug, distinguished by an ivory open field partially embellished by groups of three stylised fish in a rich burgundy red
• The arrangement of these clusters of fish is strongly reminiscent of the design arrangement in the Art Deco rugs of Europe
• Art Deco of this type were sometimes commissioned by the architects responsible for building the Art Deco and modernist palaces of some of the most important maharajas of India, who were enamoured with the continental Avant-Garde movements in art and design
• The design reflects the distinctive artistic philosophy associated with Alberto Levi rugs, where traditional craftsmanship meets contemporary visual abstraction
• Here, a series of stylized fish motifs unfold across a spacious monochromatic field with remarkable restraint and precision