David Chase Rugs & Furniture, formerly Chase Oriental Rug Co., is the only showroom of its size in Colorado featuring hand-woven area rugs, textiles and furniture. The 12,000 square foot showroom, located in Steamboat Springs, Colo., offers pieces reflective of western-transitional and mountain-contemporary styles.

“Changing the name of the business best represents what customers will find in our showroom,” said David Chase Scully, founder and owner. “In addition to fine rugs, we offer distinctive furniture, unique tribal art and architectural pieces. Our rugs are only the beginning, the expansive showroom elevates the presentation of the design elements we offer.”

David Chase Scully has held a prominent position in Steamboat’s home-furnishing business for more than 14 years. In 1994, he started Nandu Imports, specializing in ethno graphic art and central Asian tribal rugs. Five years later Scully focused exclusively on area rugs opening Chase Oriental Rug Company. In late fall 2006, Chase Oriental Rug Company moved to downtown Steamboat Springs, where David Chase Rugs & Furniture is located today.

David travels extensively to hand select extraordinary rugs from around the globe, working with established importers such as Woven Legends, Michaelian & Kohlberg, and Odegard. Notably, a Kilim rug of Romanian origin was recently featured anchoring the great room of Steamboat home profiled in LUXE Magazine. Additional design projects have appeared in Architectural Digest (twice), SKI Magazine and Steamboat Magazine.

David Chase Rugs & Furniture is the only dealer in the region to offer furniture pieces from both American Leather and Environment Furniture. Both company’s designs provide elegance through simplicity and are well known for their environmentally sustainable manufacturing practices.

David Chase Scully has established an experienced and knowledgeable sales team who are available to provide inspiration, helping fulfill client’s interior design visions. In addition to personalized service, David Chase Rugs & Furniture offers: in-home design consultation; special orders, delivery and instillation; custom rug pad fitting; rug cleaning, repairs, restoration, appraisals; and global shipping. To preview the extensive rug collection, visit www.davidchaserugsandfurniture.com.

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Flooring is one of the most flexible, and amusing feature of modular home interior design. For example, snap-together wood floors are uncomplicated to mount, with hardly any basic tools to slash floorboards to length and cut them around corners.

Even better, carpet tiles from FLOR are presented in different colors and a wide range of textures and patterns, allowing you to breed a custom wall to wall carpeting, area rugs, or runners, without the call for an interior design expert or installer.

The inclination en route for modular living holds the liberty and suppleness of our modern lifestyles, and is contagious with home owners and apartment dwellers of the entire ages.

Fuzzy Button. Each rug is one individual circle. Three color ways, one size (approximately 39.5″ diameter) - join multiple rugs for bigger rugs.

Souk Chic. A very modern take on the nearly thousand-year-old practice of knotting together still-vibrant sections of otherwise worn Turkish and Persian rugs to form a new, patchwork of color and pattern (early recycling!)

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Leading New Zealand fashion designer Sherilyn Catchpole whose label State of Grace epitomizes femininity, romance and theater has brought all three to bear in a specially designed rug she’s created to raise money for Save the Children.

Sherilyn cites the Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Princess and the Pea, as inspiration for her rug which is to be sold at a Designer Rugs charity auction in August.

Her finished rug will sit alongside those of other Kiwi designers Zambesi, Cybele, MoM*D and WORLD who have each been invited to design a unique, single edition rug to raise funds for their favorite charity.

Sherilyn says she was delighted to take up the challenge on behalf of Save the Children. “There are so many needy children who need to be nurtured, nourished and given the chance of a future we all deserve.”

Save the Children New Zealand Executive Director John Bowis, says: “We’re delighted that Sherilyn has chosen Save the Children as her charity. It is an excellent example of the many ways in which people from all walks of life can work with NGOs to achieve lasting improvements in children’s lives. “

Though she’s never designed a rug before Sherilyn says she’s always wanted to extend her designs to another medium. “I like new challenges that allow me to use my creative skills in new ways, so when I was approached I was very excited.”

Sherilyn has chosen three complementary colors – slate gray, pea green and sun-kissed yellow displayed as different sized spots on an ivory base. “The pea green color and shape it represents comes from the pea under the princess’s bed, while the other shades are from what I imagine her mattresses and night gown to be.”

Designing the rug has given Sherilyn new insight into the world of interior design. Her main challenge, she says, was in deciding how the design and large scale would sit in an interior space. “I now have endless ideas for more.”

The auction is to be held at Designer Rugs showroom in Parnell on 12 August from 6.30-8.30pm

The use of Oriental or Persian carpets is one of the best kept secrets on decorating the “Mexican Style”These carpets date back to the fifth century B.C. in ancient Persia it was specially made for a Scythian Prince by the name of Pazyryk. There are three main types of carpets, the Farsh or ‘Q?lii’ which is a carpet 6×4 feet or larger, the Q?licheh which are rugs 6×4 feet or smaller, and nomadic carpets known as Kilim or Zilu, meaning rough carpet.
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Most carpets are hand woven and can take over a year to complete. These rugs are hard to find and are usually sold at upscale galleries and auction houses for outrageous prices.

Floral designs and patterns and intricate wines are woven into the fabric of Herat rugs. The colors they are crafted with are charming Persian carpets are all woven by hand using the same single knot technique. Nomadic tribes in Iran are the weavers of Baluch rugs. These rugs are created using rich colors such as red, ivory, and navy blue, and have been in creation for over 2500 years.

It is very easy to tell carpets that are hand woven from those that are made by machine. One look at the back will tell you the whole story. It takes many, many hours to make one of these beautiful Oriental carpets.

Floor can sometimes be unforgiving. You might be enduring most of your  time cooking for your family’s meal. Whether it’s your hobby, a profession or an everyday obligation at home, it takes a lot of suffering from back and foot discomforts standing for a long time in the kitchen doing your meals.

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Other than a kitchen floor mat, Gelpro can also be used as a laundry room mat, a bathroom mat or even as a utility mat in your garage.

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Founded by designer and entrepreneur James Tufenkian, their mission is to create exquisite things from Tibetan and Armenian hand-knotted carpets. The Tufenkian brand has become the standard for the finest in contemporary design, craftsmanship and raw materials while using a unique business model to dramatically improve the lives of those in need.

Tufenkian Carpet

Tufenkian created and defined the category of Tibetan carpets while revolutionizing the handmade carpet industry itself. In 1993, Tufenkian revitalized Armenia’s dormant carpet weaving craft, restoring a centuries-old tradition to a recovering nation.

I am personally amazed by how their Tibetan carpets were produced. They created the lustrous, resilient, lanolin-rich wool that is considered the finest in the world for rug production from Tibetan sheep raised by nomads in the Himalayan Mountains, which range from 12,000 to 20,000 feet above seal level. Truly it was handmade even in removing its impurities. Tufenkian wools are never bleached but it has been gently washed in local rivers to be able to preserve the natural lanolin, personality and character of its fibers. Then it is being dried naturally from sunlight and sorted according to its color variations. Using a metal-bristled brush and simple, foot-powered wooden wheels, the fibers of the wool are roughly aligned in preparation for hand spinning and spun into yarn. This process creates many of the beautiful imperfections found in Tufenkian carpets.

Tufenkian Carpets is one of the world’s leading designers and makers of hand woven Tibetan and Armenian carpets. All Tufenkian Showrooms offer a full collection of hand-knotted carpets woven from 100% virgin Tibetan and Armenian wool, as well as silk, in a variety of knot constructions in contemporary, transitional and traditional designs.

Visit www.tufenkiancarpets.com for more details.