RARE AND EXTRAORDINARY VINTAGE MODERN ART BESPOKE AREA RUG BY INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED CUSTOM CARPET DESIGNER EDWARD FIELDS. (American 1913-1979). CRAFTED FROM HIGH QUALITY 100% MULTICOLORED WOOL. LUXURIOUS AND DURABLE. THIS RUG WILL ADD A DYNAMIC AND ARTISTIC TOUCH TO ANY LIVING SPACE. SIGNED AND DATED 1982 BY EDWARD FIELDS. MILD WEAR. UPON DELIVERY THIS RUG WILL BE PROFESSIONALLY CLEANED TO ENSURE THE BEST OF CARE. RARE GEM

DIMENSIONS ROUGHLY: 12FT x 10FT

Art For The Floor

Edward Fields Carpet Makers is a vanguard of American design and has been creating bespoke luxury carpets and rugs for eight decades. In 1935 at the age of 23, Edward Fields married his sweetheart, Eleanor. The couple spent their honeymoon setting up a modest showroom in Manhattan with the goal of becoming a luxury custom house. Fields developed a tufting tool in the mid-1930s – the Magic Needle – which would go on to define the company’s signature hand-tufting texture and forever change carpet production. Edward Fields invented the term ‘area rug’ and produced these pieces, which he called ‘art for the floor’, both in-house and through collaborations with the best designers and artists of mid-century America, including Raymond Loewy, Mies Van der Rohe, Phillip Johnson, Van Day Truex and Marion Dorn.

Edward Fields, an internationally renowed manufacturer of custom carpets and a leading carpet designer, died Tuesday in the Safety Harbor Island Spa in Clearwater, Fla. He was 66 years old and lived in Manhattan.

Mr. Fields started in the rug business as a payment collector for a company that sold its wares primarily to speakeasies and brothels. Earlier, he had a brief fling at show business with his brother, Shep, later a popular band leader. The brothers were a song‐and‐dance team in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922 when Edward was 10.

In 1935, the day after he and his wife, Eleanor, were married, the couple opened a rug showroom with money they had saved for a honeymoon. Following World War II, after a visit to California, the Fieldses changed their business from ordinary carpeting to high‐fashioned rugs.

Years later, Mr. Fields, recalling the trip to the Coast, said:

“I walked into a house with my eyes downward — the way I always do to see what's on the floor — and there was the most marvelous creation.”Mr. Fields, a native New Yorker, was chairman and chief executive officer of Edward Fields Inc. His motto that there is “no limit to carpet design” revolutionized the carpet industry and design in this country and elsewhere.

In the mid‐1950's, when living rooms across the country were covered by wallto‐wall carpeting, Mr.Fields pioneered the “area rug” — a rug used to encompass or set off a sitting area.

Another of his innovations was to reproduce Savonnerie carpets in his Flushing factory. After the showing of his first collection, a rash of French period designs appeared on the market.

Fields rugs turned up in the homes of the prominent and wealthy. During the Administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mr. Fields wove and donated the first custom carpet expressly made in modern times for the White House. He also furnished custom carpeting for the Executive Mansion during the John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon Administrations. He designed a special carpet for President Lyndon B. Johnson's Air Force One plane.

His resplendent 30‐by‐50‐foot oval blue and gold rug for the diplomatic reception room of the Executive Mansion incorporated the symbols of all the states in the Union. It was accepted in a White House ceremony by the then First Lady, Mrs. Nixon.

Mr. Fields made the first custom‐designed rugs for the American Airlines passenger fleet and wove the world's largest scenic tapestry for the American Airlines passenger terminal at DallasFort Worth International Airport.