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  • House Beautiful

    June 2008
    House Beautiful

  • Blueprint

    February 2008
    Blueprint

  • Elle Decor

    January/February 2008
    Elle Decor

  • Architectural Digest

    December 2007
    Architectural Digest

  • Domino

    November 2007
    Domino

  • Vogue Living

    Fall/Winter 2007
    Vogue Living

  • House Beautiful

    October 2007
    House Beautiful

  • Palm Beach Daily News

    September 28, 2007
    Palm Beach Daily News

  • Hamptons

    September/November 2006
    Hamptons

  • Vogue

    July 2006
    Vogue

  • Elle Decor

    September 2005
    Elle Decor

  • Architectural Digest

    July 2005
    Architectural Digest

  • Town and Country

    March 2005
    Town and Country

  • Metropolitan Home

    April 2005
    Metropolitan Home

  • House & Garden

    March 2005
    House & Garden

  • Elle Decor

    Februrary 2005
    Elle Decor

  • Elle Decor

    November 2004
    Elle Decor

  • Elle Decor

    August/September 2004
    Elle Decor

  • W

    December, 2003
    W

  • Elle Decor

    October, 2003
    Elle Decor

  • HFN

    November 10, 2003
    HFN

  • House Beautiful

    September, 2003
    House Beautiful

  • New York Magazine

    October 13, 2003
    New York Magazine

  • Interior Design

    February 2003
    Interior Design

  • London  Daily Telegraph

    February 2003
    London Daily Telegraph

  • Interior Design

    May 2002
    Interior Design

  • Metropolitan Home

    May / June 2002
    Metropolitan Home

  • House and Garden

    April 2002
    House and Garden

  • Dwell

    February 2002
    Dwell

  • Surface

    January 2002
    Surface

  • Interior Design

    December 2001
    Interior Design

  • Vanity Fair

    May 2001
    Vanity Fair

  • Metropolitan Home

    January / February 2000
    Metropolitan Home

  • Harper's Bazaar

    October 1999
    Harper's Bazaar

  • Architectural Record

    September 1999
    Architectural Record

  • The New York Times

    Thursday, September 23, 1999
    The New York Times

  • Interior Design

    September 1999
    Interior Design

  • Architecture

    August 1999
    Architecture


  • House Beautiful

    House Beautiful

    June 2008

    On Safari Yellow Dhurrie designed by Carleton Varney

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  • Blueprint

    Blueprint

    February 2008

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

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  • Elle Decor

    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

    Architectural Digest

    December 2007
    Discoveries by Designers

    Oscar de la Renta Flora dhurrie by elson&company

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  • Domino

    Domino

    November 2007

    Chant Indigo by Lulu DK

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  • Vogue Living

    Vogue Living

    Fall/Winter 2007
    Fashion into Decor

    Kathryn Ireland for elson & company Himalayan wool Toile Slate carpet

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  • House Beautiful

    House Beautiful

    October 2007
    25 Traditional Rugs with a Twist

    Ikat in blue by Kathryn Ireland

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  • Palm Beach Daily News

    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

    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

    Vogue

    July 2006

    Custom tibetan carpet designed by Diane Von Furstenberg.

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  • Elle Decor

    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

    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

    Town and Country

    March 2005
    Oscar de la Renta Home

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  • Metropolitan Home

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    House Beautiful

    September, 2003
    How to Shop for a Young Look

    Elson & Co.'s Vagabond Rug

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  • New York Magazine

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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