Wilton Carpet Manufacturing Company, Taliesin Architects, and others
Carpet from Arizona Biltmore Hotel
1931
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- Manufacturer: Wilton Carpet Manufacturing Company
- Design Group: Taliesin Architects
- Designer and Decorator: Frank Lloyd Wright
Carpet from Arizona Biltmore Hotel
1931
Physical Qualities
Wool, 54 x 108 in. (137.2 x 274.3 cm.)
Credit Line
Textile Acquisition Fund
Object Number
2010.19
Vintage Frank Lloyd Wright-designed carpet from the Arizona Biltmore Hotel. Repeating design of four green squares with an arrow through the middle of each square, pointing to the center. Each square is approximately 27" square and four make a complete "tile" of approximately 5" square.
Designer: Frank Lloyd Wright/Taliesin Architects (American, 1869-1959)
Manufacturer: Wilson Carpet Manufacturing Company, England
Designed 1929, originally installed 1932, this piece unknown, possibly 1973.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2010; Ashe Auctioneeers, Inc., Phoenix, AZ.
