Find out all the latest rug news from Ruggable, Ernesta, Creative Matters and Rugs.com in this week’s Rug Report.
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Ruggable is launching its first Ruggable & Friends collection, and they are partnering with Dan Pelosi, the New York Times bestselling cookbook author and cult internet personality behind @GrossyPelosi.
According to Ruggable, the collection brings Pelosi’s warm, maximalist world directly to the floor: “Think upstate New York farmhouse, Italian-American comfort food, an unapologetic love of color – the kind of home that makes you feel like you just got invited to a very good dinner party.”
Co-created with Ruggable’s in-house design team and shot on location at Pelosi’s home in the Hudson Valley, the collection features 13 new designs spanning full-on insider nods to his Grossy community and pieces with broad appeal.
“One of them is a pasta-shaped rug called Rugatoni that is genuinely going to make people stop and stare,” said a company spokesperson.
The Ruggable & Friends x Dan Pelosi collection includes:
- Nine doormat designs, including fan-ready Grossyisms like Please Leave by 9, Come Hungry Leave Full, Ciao Bella, and From My Head To-Ma-Toes
- Three indoor All-in-One rugs, including the Nonna’s Checkerboard and This House Is a Home style, offered in multiple colorways
- Three Rejute rugs, including the Rugatoni Natural, Tulip Heave and Pomodoro All-Over styles
- Available in sizes ranging from 2’x3′ through 5’x7′ for indoor rugs, and 2’x3′ and 3’x5′ for doormats
The Dan Pelosi collection marks the first chapter of Ruggable & Friends, a new partnership program designed to drive cultural relevance through collaborations with cult-followed tastemakers.
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Ernesta has opened its newest showroom in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, located within Suburban Square, a premier open-air retail, dining and lifestyle destination on Philadelphia’s Main Line.
The showroom sits among a mix of upscale retail and dining offerings, providing an ideal setting for Ernesta’s growing retail footprint, serving as a resource for consumers and designers in the greater Philadelphia area.
The Ernesta Ardmore showroom offers a hands-on environment to explore the brand’s full assortment of wool, natural fiber and performance rugs. The space is designed to support a highly personalized experience, with tailored guidance and one-on-one consultations from Ernesta’s in-store team, as well as a dedicated lounge area for tailored design discussions.
The new location also provides white-glove delivery and installation, along with expanded customization options such as stair runners, corner shapes, fireplace cutouts, and more.
“Ardmore represents an important step in our expanding retail footprint,” said Jennifer Parker, Ernesta chief sales officer. “The new showroom allows us to bring our tailored approach to the Greater Philadelphia Area – offering a more personal, hands-on experience where clients and designers alike can create something truly tailored to their space with the support and expertise our team is known for.”
The Ardmore showroom marks the brand’s eighth location. It opened a store on Long Island last month.
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The Vista collection, a mid-century modern-inspired range of nine rug designs by Creative Matters in collaboration with Reddie Furniture, launched this week. Reddie Furniture has showrooms in both London and Sydney, Australia.
Woven by hand by artisans in Afghanistan, this collection facilitates work and social interactions for Afghan women either in small community weaving centers or in the weavers’ own homes and provides these women with the opportunity to make a living. Many of them are the sole breadwinners in their families.
Using local Ghazni wool from mountainous sheep, in 45×45 Persian knots, these rugs (size options: 8′ x 10′, 9′ x 12′, 10′ x 14′, and 12′ x 15′ or custom-sized) provide a juxtaposition between the modern, cityscape-inspired designs and the more rustic texture that the wool and ancient knot technique provide.
Available exclusively through new design destination showroom Reddie Furniture, each of the nine designs (Promenade, Plaza, Skyline, Horizon, Boulevard, Acreage, Summit, Avenue and High Street) can be customized to suit specific colors and sizes.
Each of the designs expertly layers geometric blocks of color, clean borders and subtle patterns rendered in a charmingly textured wool and immaculately hand-knotted by experienced artisans.
Founded in 1988 in Toronto, Creative Matters has been designing hand-knotted rug collections and bespoke, fair-trade floor coverings for clients in more than 40 countries.
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Rugs.com has donated 550 rugs to classrooms across 20 Los Angeles Unified School District schools. The gift is part of Rugs.com‘s signature “Paying It Floorward” program.
Three of the rugs donated to Los Angeles Schools by Rugs.com
The rug company teamed up with Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, a non-profit organization that manages a network of 20 high-need public schools across Boyle Heights, Watts and South Los Angeles, and IMC Logistics, the leading marine drayage operator in North America, which donated delivery to every school.
Created in 2023, the “Paying it Floorward” initiative transforms classrooms across America into more comfortable, inviting and vibrant learning environments. A classroom rug is often where stories are read, group discussions begin, friendships form and confidence takes root. Rugs.com created the program to give teachers a foundational resource for the spaces where so much learning and community-building happen.
“Teachers are the backbone of our communities, and we wanted to do something tangible to show our gratitude,” said Andrew Haltom of Rugs.com. “By teaming up with Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, we were able to reach 20 schools that serve incredible students and faculty. Delivering these 550 rugs during Teacher Appreciation Week was our way of saying ‘thank you’ for the tireless work educators do every day and encouraging others to give back to their community.”
The rug deliveries took place throughout the first full week of May.
To submit your teacher or classroom for a free rug through the Rugs.com “Paying it Floorward” program, visit: https://rugs.com/p/Teacher-Appreciation.
