COVER Magazine

Our Winter 2024 issue, COVER 77, features the best-sellers in Europe article, in which we look at the most popular rug designs of twenty-eight European brands. COVER editor, Lucy Upward looks ahead to 2025, discussing future interior and rug trends with interior designer Tineke Triggs. Read about our third edition of COVER Connect Las Vegas with an in-depth look at the fourteen brands that will be showing. Further previews include Heimtextil, Maison et Objet, Istanbul Carpet and Flooring Expo and Las Vegas Market | ANDMORE℠. We also look back at the best rugs from COVER Connect New York, The Rug Show, High Point Market Authority, London Design Week, Decorex International and Dubai Design Week. New collections come from ABC Italia x Samad Rugs (David Samad), Rugstar, Creative Touch, Unknown Carpets, Kahhal1871 and Classic Rug Collection. In the rest of the issue, we report on US brand Merida Studio, the second Carpet Diem exhibition, designing for neurodiversity, mid-range rugs, the women at GoodWeave International and Kips Bay Decorator Show House.

Following the success of COVER Connect Las Vegas 2023 and 2024 at The International Surface Event (TISE), the third edition of this event will be held at Mandalay Bay Convention Center 28–30 January 2025. Curated by COVER magazine, a select group of brands will again showcase some of the highest quality rugs on the market today. COVER Connect Las Vegas offers a new audience of buyers and industry professionals the opportunity to source the most sought-after traditional, transitional and contemporary rugs in an exclusive pavilion within TISE. Be sure to register before December 8 to get a free pass to the show; claim by emailing [email protected].

This year’s edition of Flanders Flooring Days attracted a significant number of international visitors, with participants from more than 70 countries, showcasing its broad global appeal. The show, which took place in Flanders, Belgium from 13–16 May, brought together both established industry leaders and newcomers, with a diverse range of exhibitors from across Europe. Read a full review of the show in a new article on the COVER website.

Over on the COVER website we've been exploring the question, what makes a bestselling rug? Lucy Upward asks twenty-one US rug companies which of their designs is a best-seller, either over time or more recently. Do the results surprise or are they reflective of what the market wants? We'll be answering this question over a four part series. Parts 1 and 2 are available to read now, featuring rugs by Samad, Tamarian, Creative Touch, Ashley Stark Home, Wool and Silk, Creative Matters Inc., New Moon Rugs, Anadol Rug Co and Zollanvari International.

There is just over one week to go until COVER Connect New York! We are counting down the days until 45 dynamic high-end rug brands gather at the Metropolitan Pavilion and The Altman Building from September 14–16, 2024. With ten new innovative brands at this year’s show, the rug types available at COVER Connect New York continue to expand, providing further opportunity to discover different, creative products you won’t have seen at previous editions. Read the digital guide to discover the new brands that will be exhibiting and the trends that exhibiting brands have picked up on in their designs, as well as the exciting new collections that will be on show at CCNY. Don't forget to register before attending to skip the queues! Read the digital guide: https://lnkd.in/e3XY7H3a Register for CCNY: https://lnkd.in/e63txkEm

As we count down the days to COVER Connect New York, our fourth episode of ‘Following the Thread’ celebrates the upcoming boutique trade show and what it represents for the rug industry. This episode opens with a conversation between CCNY project manager, Rachel Meek and returning visitor Taline Isberian of Isberian Rug Company. Taline explains what she’s looking for at the show, as well as sharing which brands, familiar and unfamiliar to her, she is excited to see. This is followed by a conversation between Ryan Higgins and Ned Baker of COVER Connect exhibitor Tamarian. The pair discuss past editions of what they describe as ‘the best show of the year’. Finally, visiting buyer Jacqueline Cox of Tapis Decor talks about what she hopes to discover at COVER Connect based on recent shifts in client buying behaviour. COVER Connect New York is an annual boutique show for leading high-end rug brands, hosted in the Metropolitan Pavilion and The Altman Building in Manhattan from 14–16 September 2024. Register for the show here: https://lnkd.in/e63txkEm

With less than two months to go, it is almost time to welcome forty of the finest rug brands to COVER Connect New York, where they will come together with buyers and industry professionals to conduct business in the collaborative and celebratory atmosphere that has come to define COVER Connect events. Don't miss out! Those who register before 22 July will be in with a chance of winning a free two-night stay at a luxury hotel, a short walk from the Chelsea venues, during the show. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e63txkEm

The five-year ACEBA project run by DAI has sought to promote sustainable economic growth in Afghanistan’s carpet production. In COVER 75, Lucy Upward looks at the work of this endeavour in the country and beyond. The full article is now available to read on the COVER website.

New publication out now! 'Beyond the Loom: The People Who Crafted Rugs in Kathmandu, Monsoon 2023' by Narendra Shrestha with Ryan Higgins. Produced by Hali Publications Ltd. ‘You need to show people how their rugs are made.’ This is the belief of Ryan Higgins of Tamarian, a US-based company that designs and imports fine handmade rugs knotted in the Tibetan tradition. This book documents the lives of the weavers making Tamarian’s rugs in Kathmandu over eight days in July 2023. Award-winning photographer Narendra Shrestha’s brief was to document all the processes of rug making, focusing on the human element. In his photos, we see the joy found in the everyday, the exquisite and labour-intensive art that is weaving, and the ancient blending seamlessly with the modern. Beyond the Loom is a love letter to Nepal, its people and the inherent beauty of the handmade. Buy it now: https://lnkd.in/e4kkzj7q

Are you registered for COVER Connect New York? 💫 Sign up now and you'll be in with a chance of winning two free hotel nights for the duration of the show. Don't miss out! The upcoming edition of CCNY will take place at the Metropolitan Pavilion and The Altman Building from 14–16 September. Forty dynamic rug brands are participating—all carefully selected to ensure that buyers encounter the broadest possible range of high-end rugs and carpets spanning every style, construction and application. Exhibiting brands include: Anadol Rug Co, Asha Carpets, Battilossi, Creative Matters Inc., DESIGN MATERIALS, INC, Jaipur Living, Knots Rugs, Label STEP, Lapchi Rug Design Studio, LLC, Rug & Kilim, SH RUGS, Sumaq Alpaca Rugs, Tamarian, Tissage Rugs, Wendy Morrison Design and Zollanvari International, amongst others. Register here: https://lnkd.in/e63txkEm.