Town & Country

August 2010
Boxwood A Love Story

It was the romantic old house that everyone in Atlanta dreamed about. And it was Miles Redd who got the call to reimagine it for a modern young family.

Oscar de la Renta Tibetan carpet.

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CFDA

2009 Annual Report
Fashion Underfoot II by elson&company benefits Fashion Targets Breast Cancer

The Council of Fashion Designers of America and elson&company presented Fashion Underfoot II, a collaboration between founder Diane Elson Bankoff and some of the nation's most celebrated fashion designers.



A follow-up to elson&company's previous Fashion Underfoot collection, launched in 2003, elson&company donated ten percent of the proceeds to benefit Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. The custom carpets were designed by Oscar de la Renta, Marchesa, Lilly Pulitzer, Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein Home, Cynthia Rowley, Adam Lippes for ADAM, Doo-ri Chung, Peter Som, Thakoon Panichgul, and Tory Burch.

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Elle Decor

April 2010
Oscar Worthy

Oscar de la Renta Little Thatch, Antigua, and Harbour Island

Oscar de la Renta's spring 2010 collection was a masterful mix of the voluptuous, the romantic, and the exotic ...So how does a couturier think about the home? ...De la Renta has always loved working with textiles. He has managed to find time to add new pieces to his range of rugs for Elson&Co. ...De la Renta says it has taken him a lifetime to develop his eye, but he now understands that a home should be "welcoming, an oasis."

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Architectural Digest

November 2009
Into the Blue

Fabien Baron Charcoal "Horizon"

...After an overhaul, Cyan is sleekly seaworthy and trimmed with African touches. Interior design by Nina Seirafi. Cyan, a 160-foot yacht owned by three families . . .the yacht's dominating color, charcoal, is subtle. . .the rug near the entrance is also charcoal. The rug changes color, however becoming progressively lighter as you walk toward the dining room itself, it becomes a silver gray. "It's a light effect," says Seirafi. "The idea was to have a change in temperature as you go from one space to another."

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Elle Decor

September 2009
what's hot!

Cynthia Rowley's Love Letter Marble rug reproduces the vibrant, free-flowing colors of traditional Venetian decorative papers in hand-knotted Himalayan wool. Part of Elson & Company's second Fashion Underfoot collection -- which benefits the CFDA's breast-cancer fund.

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House Beautiful

September 2009
RUGS Fashion Designers

Pixilated Floral by Thakoon for Elson & Company's Fashion Underfoot II



Thakoon's bold florals have many fans, including Michelle Obama. Hand-knotted wool.

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Traditional Home

September 2009

Fashion Underfoot II:

Tory Burch, Cynthia Rowley, Lilly Pulitzer

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House Beautiful

August 2009

Oscar de la Renta Santiago

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House Beautiful

June 2009

LULU DK Madison Chocolate

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Interior Design

May 2009
Thakoon for Fashion Underfoot II

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Elle Decor

April 2009

LULU DK Rita Pale Blue

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Architectural Digest

April 2009

Discoveries by Designers:


The new Fashion Underfoot collection of carpets from elson & company features Peter Som's "Vitoria," of Himalayan wool.

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Elle Decor

December 2008
Fashion Underfoot Collection

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Elle Decor

December 2003
Fashion Underfoot Collection

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Florida International

August 2008

Oscar de la Renta Santiago

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Elle Decor

July 2008

Kathryn M Ireland Green Stripe Dhurrie

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World of Interiors

Fabien Baron for elson&company

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House Beautiful

June 2008

On Safari Yellow Dhurrie designed by Carleton Varney

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Blueprint

February 2008

Oscar de la Renta Watercolor Celadon Tibetan carpet by elson&company

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Elle Decor

January/February 2008
What's Hot

Oscar de le Renta Spotted Ikat Blue Tibetan carpet by elson&company

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Architectural Digest

December 2007
Discoveries by Designers

Oscar de la Renta Flora dhurrie by elson&company

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Domino

November 2007

Chant Indigo by Lulu DK

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Vogue Living

Fall/Winter 2007
Fashion into Decor

Kathryn Ireland for elson & company Himalayan wool Toile Slate carpet

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House Beautiful

October 2007
25 Traditional Rugs with a Twist

Ikat in blue by Kathryn Ireland

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Palm Beach Daily News

September 28, 2007
It's Time to Freshen Up Your Home for Fall by Carleton Varney

elson & company, the carpet manufacturer in Washington D.C., has some of the prettiest rugs on the market. Be sure to see the company's new line this fall featuring my designs as well as those from the Dorothy Draper Vintage Collection.

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Hamptons

September/November 2006
Where There's a Will, There's a Way

Samantha Marcus and
Lindsay Brooke Cohen

Oscar de la Renta is proud to announce the latest addition to the world-renowned fashion designer's line of home furnishings, in collaboration with elson & company. "elson & company's rugs are exquisitely handcrafted, like a piece of couture. I'm very excited about this new division of Oscar de la Renta Home," de la Renta explains. Using his initial sketches, elson & company ran with his ideas and worked as both advisor and liason between the fashion designer and their team of Tibetan and Indian weavers.

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Vogue

July 2006

Custom tibetan carpet designed by Diane Von Furstenberg.

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Elle Decor

September 2005
All Dressed Up

Featured: Bilbao Cafe Tibetan Rug by Oscar de la Renta

by Anita Sarsidi

"With fashion designers increasingly turning to the home, it is not surprising that dressmaker details and rich colors and textures prevail..."

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Architectural Digest

July 2005
Discoveries by Designers

"I find most of my inspiration in travel and in the objects I personally like to live with."



Fashion legend Oscar de la Renta lends his creative genius to a new genre with a collection of hand-knotted Tibetan and Indian rugs, which he describes as "a reflection of my taste and way of living" and the "perfect complement" to his home furnishings line. His collaborator, Dine Elson Bankoff, owner of elson & company, participates in all aspects of production. Of the design process, de la Renta says, "We take various patterns, blow them up, scale them down and eliminate excess to produce the final result

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Town and Country

March 2005
Oscar de la Renta Home

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Metropolitan Home

April 2005
Take Note

by Arlene Hirst

Oscar de la Renta's collection of hand-knotted Hilmalayan wool rugs produced by elson&company...







Featured: San Lucar

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House & Garden

March 2005
The Color List

by Melissa Feldman

pale pink dresses up neutral sives everything at home a dash of luxe





Featured: Manisalez Pink wool dhurrie by Oscar de la Renta.

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Elle Decor

Februrary 2005
"Rug Addiction"

by Anita Sarsidi

"...make room for today's vibrant and richly patterned carpets..."







Featured: San Lucar wool rug by Oscar de la Renta, and Ikat wool rug by Kathryn M. Ireland.

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Elle Decor

November 2004
Elle Deco Design Awards

"...Elson discovered a carpet house in Kathmandu that would make her a hand-knotted carpet to bring home - without using child labor ...Since the beginning Elson has enlisted other artists...architects to create designs for her line..Her collaboration with Oscar de la Renta proved so successful that he designed an entire line of rugs for the company...."

Winner, Design Award for Floor Covering.

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Elle Decor

August/September 2004
Classic Cool

Mitchell Owens

"Modern icons and traditional elements - animate a family's 1885 Maryland farmhouse."

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W

December, 2003
Floor Chic

"Fashion Designers are leaving their stamp just about everywhere these days....clothiers such as Narciso Rodriguez, Stephen Burrows and Carolina Herrera teamed up with elson & company."

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Elle Decor

October, 2003
Cause Celebre

Mark Welsh

"Top Fashion designers open their studios - and their hearts - when Diane Elson comes knocking."

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HFN

November 10, 2003
Weaves of Support

Jennifer White

"ABC Carpet & Home cleared part of its cavernous sixth floor recently for a cocktail party to celebrate the debut of Fashion Underfoot."

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House Beautiful

September, 2003
How to Shop for a Young Look

Elson & Co.'s Vagabond Rug

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New York Magazine

October 13, 2003
Best Bets - We're Floored

Rima Suqi

"elson & co will give 10% from sales of its designer rugs-including this one from Lambertson Truex - to the Ovarian Cancer Research fund and Fashion Targets Breast Cancer."

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Interior Design

February 2003
Market Flooring

Elson & Company



"For his latest rug, Rex Ray exchanged his trademark gleeful graphics for a soothing graceful geometry. Clear's calming circles come in soothing tones of 100 knot Himalayan wool..."

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London Daily Telegraph

February 2003

By Jenny Dalton

"The US company, Elson, where renowned graphic and furniture designer Fabien Baron has produced a range of carefully calculated colour fading rugs for Cappellini, co-ordinated by Diane Elson.

The company has recently relocated to New York from San Francisco and Elson is planning a non-profit range of designs to be launched later this year. (ten percent of the proceeds benefit the OCRF and Fashion targets breast cancer charities) with the help of a number of high-profile American fashion designers including Oscar de la renta and Narciso Rodriguez."

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Interior Design

May 2002
Pixar, Inc. Bohlin Cywinski Jackson Draws Up a Bay Area Studio for the Powerhouse Animation House

“…one of the most significant contributions to the space was the collaboration with local artist, Rex Ray and elson&company to create eight floor coverings subsequently hand-woven by Tibetans in Nepal. Anchoring the furniture and breaking down scale, the vibrant, large scale rugs read as paintings on the floor and provide the sought-after home atmosphere to keep animators going through long hours of the night.”

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Metropolitan Home

May / June 2002
The Modern Mix: A Marriage of Styles Take Note

"Artist and designer Rex Ray's rugs for Elson & Company shimmer with the same brilliant palette as his collages."

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House and Garden

April 2002
How to Make Color Work for You

"Looking at rugs can be as lavish a feast for your eyes as looking at paintings, and no one who loves beauty should miss either."

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Dwell

February 2002
Bored With Naked Concrete?

By Andrew Wagner

"...Personalized and unique visions for what should cover the ground beneath our feet...elson & company."

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Surface

January 2002
Low Blow

By Jenny Shears

"The next big furniture trend is more about sitting pretty than standing tall. Chic designs lie flat on the floor."

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Interior Design

December 2001
Best of 2001

by Alexa Yablonski

"Artist Rex Ray, who has garnered success in the realms of painting, photography, and graphic design, lent his unique visual flair to a collection of striking rugs for elson & co."

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Vanity Fair

May 2001
Baron by Design

By Matt Tyrnaur
Photography by Fabien Baron

"In Fabien Baron's latest quest for perfection, every extraneous element in his newly finished 3600-square-foot-Soho loft has been hidden--drains, switches, outlets--every edge honed razor-straight. It's this powerfully spare vision that makes him one of the most sought-after creative director/graphic designers in the world, his stamp enhancing images of Harper's Bazaar, Calvin Klein, Ian Schrager, Madonna, among other clients. As Baron turns to fresh challenges, including photography and a new furniture line, Matt Tyrnaur visits the forty-one year-old Frenchman's most personal masterpiece"

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Metropolitan Home

January / February 2000
Wool Worth It

By Arlene Hirst

"...cutting-edge design with traditional weaving, Tibetan Modern: The Architects Collection features the work of fifteen major designers including Greg Lynn, Michael Rotondi, Steven Holl, Tod Williams, and Billie Tsien."

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Harper's Bazaar

October 1999
Floor Show

By Melissa Barett Rhodes

"A new line of wool rugs designed by an impressive group of architects, including Steven Holl, Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, and Greg Lynn..."

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Architectural Record

September 1999
New Products

"Tibetan Modern: The Architects Collection" is a collaboration between world renowned modern architects and master Tibetan rug weavers in an exhibit and collection of custom-designed rugs. Architects involved in the project include Steven Holl, AIA, Michael Rotondi, FAIA, and Paulett Taggart, AIA, all of whom produced designs reflecting their own interpretations of Tibet following research. A limited number of each design will be produced and a portion of all proceeds will benefit Tibet House New York."

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The New York Times

Thursday, September 23, 1999

By Elaine Louie

"Imagine Tibet--mountains and valleys, monks and temples--as a rug. That's what Elson & Company asked 15 architects to do for "Tibetan Modern: The Architects Collection," an exhibition of 13 rugs."

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Interior Design

September 1999
Architects' Rug Collection

by Elana Frankel

"Tibetan Modern: The Architects Collection includes work from Maryann Thompson of Thompson and Rose Architects, Steven Holl of Steven Holl Architects, Tod Williams Billie Tsien and Associates, Michael Rotondi of RoTo Architects, and Greg Lynn of FORM, all of whom produced designs that reflect their individual interpretations of Tibetan landscape, Philosophy, and culture."

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