Circa 1970, wool pile, the mustard colored field with blue and red Southwestern style border with multicolor serrated motifs, labeled to reverse with "Edward Fields."

12 ft. 6 in. x 15 ft. 6 in.

From the Estate of the late Mr. & Mrs. Charles and Cynthia Salzhauer, Oxford, North Carolina

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.

Indentation from furniture, staining, otherwise good estate condition.