20th Century Chinese Floreal Total Red Nichols Rug, 1930s

From the elegance and unusual style you can recognize this beautiful Chinese carpet from the Art Deco period. The wool is bright and silky, spun with greater thickness than normal Chinese wool. This type of rug was born around the '20s on the initiative of Walter Nichols, an American merchant who, having moved to China, opened in 1924 a manufacturer of rugs, designed for the American market, which while maintaining some classical Chinese decorations, were characterized by their decidedly innovative style. These carpets born from the encounter between a decidedly Chinese style and the new art of furniture, so much in vogue in the West, are characterized by a renewed chromatic taste that ventures combinations of colors never before proposed. Cascades of flowers on the bottom combined with strong tones are the main feature of this production. In our carpet the solid bottom is a very warm brick red shade, while the border is dark pink, instead there are many colors of the rich flowering that comes from the border to invade the center of the carpet.