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The Mrirt carpets are considered the most prestigious Moroccan rugs, made from the very finest wool. every rug you take is the only piece, one of its kind." These rugs are luxurious and perfect for any contemporary home design.
Modern Mrirt, Beni Ourain, Boujaad or Azilal rugs are authentic tribal moroccan rugs fully hand-woven by berber women in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Few decades ago, the Beni Ouarain were confined in Berber tents of the Atlas Mountains, this confinement is definitively broken in the early twentieth century under the French protectorate. Nowadays, they are used all over the world in refined interior decoration, as a very chic and fashion floor covering.
The history of the berber rugs which is ancestral starts a move in the Mid 20th century by producing rugs for famous western architects and interior designers from the 1920s to the 1970s years.
The Beni Ourain rugs have inspired many European artists such as Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier (who matched the Moroccan berber rugs with sleekly designed furniture), Paul Klee and, as well as most famous modernist architects in the 1920’s and 30’s . They got trendy by Henri Matisse, who called them “The huge whites”.
From the 1970s years to the recent years, the traditional beni ourain which is timeless with the white and black design of diamonds became a most-see rug in so many interior designs hat some thousands of pictures have been published in the magazines.
From the 1970s years to the recent years, the traditional beni ourain which is timeless with the white and black design of diamonds became a most-see rug in so many interior designs hat some thousands of pictures have been published in the magazines.
And only since few years, because of talented young Moroccan designers graduated from Art schools in Casablanca or Rabat, the junctions has been made with the weavers and their ancestral techniques.
Jean yves SEVESTRE from TRIBAL ART MOROCCO did play a major rule in these new collections of rugs. He is now offering some incredible modern and designer rugs with a so soft wool and amazing colors.
In the cooperatives that he is supporting, he brought large iron looms to be able to weave large and extra large rugs to answer to the demand of international interior designers or private customers.
The charm, luxury and creativity of these modern rugs will become soon the most famous and appreciated contemporary rugs and a worldwide interior design reference. These berber rugs seem to combine a modernist taste for minimalist linearity with the graphic symbolism of primitive art.
These modern rugs are available with reasonable prices and are less expensive that the high end rugs weaved in India or Turkey.