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The Aesthete’s Lament featured a vintage Donegal carpet in its “Editor’s Choice” wish list of eclectic interiors items from the country house of Robert Harling, recently auctioned at Christies.
This approximately 9′ x 12′ carpet exceeded the estimate but still came in at a ridiculously reasonable £1,250 (approx.$2,090), a fabulous value. When you [...]
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Donegal Carpets have been making bespoke (custom) hand-knotted carpets in northwest Ireland for over a century. Through the years Donegal Carpets have graced establishments such as Dublin Castle, the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, Eltham Palace, and the U.S. White House. Donegal Carpets still creates bespoke carpets in the original factory at Killybegs. Since 2005, [...]
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In case anyone is wondering whether we really do live in a global village, and if the world is flat, I offer the following story.
Once upon a time, there was an architect in New York who saw one of our luscious mohair samples, and decided that it would be perfect for one of their projects. [...]
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Danielle and I went to Sarasota, FL earlier this month to attend a gallery crawl in which our carpets were featured by one of our retailers, Art To Walk On. Our delightful hosts, John and Eileen Hampshire, were gracious enough to invite us to stay at their home for the weekend. John is an architect [...]
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When I visited in U.K. in early June, I toured Cardiff Castle and found a c.1910 Donegal carpet in Lord Bute’s bedroom, shown below. A larger carpet with the same design was auctioned at Sotheby’s in October 2004.
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The October 2005 issue of Old-House Journal featured an excellent article on Arts & Crafts carpets, in which Donegal Carpets were, naturally, quite prominent. The article, entitled “Arts & Crafts Rug Renaissance,” provides one of the best overviews of the subject available to date. The text of the article (minus the excellent photographs) can [...]
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Michael McDaid flew over from Ireland to join us for the debut of the GuildCraft Voysey Collection of Arts & Crafts carpets in Chicago. Danielle and I then drove down to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to see the Victoria & Albert Museum’s International Arts&Crafts Exhibition. (The IMA was one of only two venues in [...]
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