The new Olson rugs.
A 1924 trade catalogue issued by the Olson Rug Company to promote its rugs to retailers and homeowners, showing how floor coverings suit furnished rooms. The pictures are colour interior perspectives of living rooms with fireplaces, bookshelves, lamps and upholstered chairs, each set over a plain bordered rug in a single solid colour. A designer could take the restrained palettes, the border-and-field rug layouts, and the 1920s domestic furniture arrangements as period reference.
