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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Architecture
August 1999
Zen and the Art of Carpet Maintenance
By Michael J. O'Connor
"San Francisco-based rugmaker Elson & Company will sponsor a unique exhibition this fall to benefit New York City's Tibet House..."
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