A room without a rug is like a burger without cheese. Clearly, something is missing. It’s the anchor that will pull a design scheme together, define a space and stop your furniture from “floating” ...

In addition to being smooth and soft on the skin, silk is temperature-regulating and hypoallergenic, making it an excellent material to sleep in. And while it isn’t exactly known for being cheap ...

An Oriental rug — a broad category that includes Persian rugs as well as other hand-knotted kinds made in Asia ... might also incorporate cotton or silk. Laundry detergent is alkaline ...

Bringing her expertise to the same, Devika Khosla, Creative Director at The Works Interiors, said, “Hand-knotted silk Kashmiri rugs stand as epitomes of craftsmanship, albeit with a premium ...

A palette warmed by limestone from Iran, linen curtains and hand-knotted silk rugs from Nepal, artworks by Australian artists. Furniture by French luxury interiors brand Liaigre takes its cue from ...

Good ideas and innovation travel easily—and far. Historically, these ideas spread along trade routes. This essay looks at the great Eurasian Silk Roads as a transmitter of people, goods, ideas, ...

In addition to a bluish-green hand-knotted wool rug and a rose-colored alpaca-linen throw, she employs everything from an antiqued mirror finish to a silicon-bronze-clad coffee table to create a ...

The invisible hand is a metaphor for the unseen forces that move the free market economy. Through individual self-interest and freedom of production and consumption, the best interests of society ...

Yes, you can wash delicate fabrics like silk, wool, cashmere and angora by hand. In fact, hand-laundering these materials is often the better option for preserving the look and feel of these ...