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Article: Rugs that'll floor you: With bold colors and daring designs, area carpets are walking on the wild side.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- March 17, 2006
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Byline: Eils Lotozo
Mar. 17--Adding an area rug to a room basically used to mean one thing: buying an Oriental. Not anymore. The traditional, Persian-carpet look that long dominated the rug industry is being edged aside by bright, snappy, contemporary designs. From the high end to the low, area rugs are sprouting fields of giant flowers and clouds of bubbles and swirls. They're boasting kinetic grids and stripes, and a palette of candy colors guaranteed to wake up a room. "More than half of our business is contemporary now," says Austin Craley, vice president of sales for Momeni Inc., whose rugs supply thousands of retailers across the country. ...
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