A rare Art Deco / Modernist Movement rug
Made at the Wilton Royal Factory, Wessex, England, designed by Marion Dorn (1896-1964). Signed : DORN Circa 1930s.
5ft 7in x 5ft 11in : 171cm x 181cm
When Marion Dorn supplied her rugs for Syrie Maugham’s famous all-white drawing room in 1933, she used shearing to make the fretwork design thus raising the pile creating a design in itself. The present rare rug is of similar effect though the ground is of a flat weave and the design with a knotted pile, which for Dorn’s rug designs is perhaps her most innovative work.
Her rugs were made at the Wilton Royal Carpet Factory, Wessex, commissions include-the Savoy Hotel, the Berkeley Hotel, both in London, the ocean liners- Orion and Queen Mary. In America she designed and supplied the carpet for the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Washington, and worked with Edward Fields. Her husband was Edward McKnight Kauffer, the noted American artist and poster designer (Metropolis).
Similar examples are at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery’s collection and for the late Earl of Jersey’s London home, though the pattern is the same the format is a conventional square.. Also we have a similar designed runner, both rugs came from the same provenance, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, have in their collection examples of her rugs.
Literature: C. Boydell, The Architect of Floors, Schoeser, 1996, p 71.
Price : P.O.A.
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