New Products - Flooring

His guerrilla aesthetic and rebel attitude have engendered a swarm of flamboyantly progressive furnishings. But not until now has he turned his gaze to the floor. Fortunately, Tom Dixon has an experienced partner calling him to the carpet. The Rug Company, already the floor-covering facilitator for designs stars from Arad to Zeisel, is now launching the straightforwardly named series, Tom Dixon for the Rug Company.

Dixon's muse for the four-pattern debut is decidedly old-school, TV test patterns from the analog era. Aggressive geometrics repeat in varied colors, dancing against black grounds. The irony of choosing electronic imagery, only to have it hand-knotted in Tibetan wool by artisans in Nepal, wasn't lost on Dixon. "Working on a computer screen, it's impossible to predict the effect of light and shade on the pile," he adds. "The joy and surprise is in unrolling the samples for the first time and seeing your idea, which you have previously experienced only in a pixellated 15-inch format, transformed into a massive, luminous plane of color."

The patterns have self-explanatory names: Beam, Step, Tile, Tube. Sizes are 6 by 9 feet, 8 by 10, and 9 by 12 in addition to custom dimensions. Coordinating cushions come in handwoven wool. 800-644-3963; therugcompany.info. circle 436

Memories of glamorous parties and classical villas on the French Riviera shaped the lavishly large-scale graphics of Tanegra I. The hand-tufted wool and silk rug, aptly hailing from the Riviera range, comes in countless custom colors and sizes. 212-310-0400; edwardfields.com. circle 704

Folk rug in wool by Sztuka Beskidzka, 48-50-3116324; sztuka-beskidzka.pl. circle 457

Hand-knotted in Nepal, wool from Tibet and New Zealand fuses in James Irvine's Atom. This GoodWeave-certified rug, also offered in wool-silk or silk alone, comes in five colorways at a standard size of 3 feet 8 inches by 8 feet 5 inches. 39-02-866838; nodusrug.it. circle 438

Ever evolving from the Anglophile reserve that put him on the map, Interior Design Hall of Fame member David Easton favors Eastern motifs at Safavieh. His 15 patterns range from Kyoto Fretwork, in cut silk against a wool-loop ground, to the meandering line of Beijing Ribbon, its wool ground accented by cut-silk pile. All are hand-knotted in Nepal at 6 by 9 feet, 8 by 10 feet, and 9 by 12 feet. 212-683-8399; safavieh.com. circle 435

European oak herringbone parquet finished in black-brown wax by Solid Floor, 44-20-7371-9551; solidfloor.co.uk.  circle 449

What could be more tempting than caramel candies? And Gandia Blasco president José Gandia's recipe for the Gan rug brand is distinctly less fattening. Caramelos offer swirls of imperfect concentric ovals in hand-tufted cotton, not sugary candy—cooked up in a palate-pleasing palette of red, orange, turquoise, and black. The four sizes range in length from 3 feet 7 inches to 4 feet 7 inches. 212-421-6701; gandiablasco.com. circle 430

Martini MPA 1073 rug in hand-tufted polyester in light oatmeal, gray, dark gray, and mustard yellow by Foreign Accents, 505-797-1515; foreign-accents.com. circle 415

Driftwood planks in engineered oak by Top Floor, 44-20-7795-3333; topfloorrugs.com. circle 453

Duet rug in hand-painted canvas by Maude Décor, 604-879-7775; maudedecor.com. circle 461

Camille Chevalier's family has been steeped in the lore of Aubusson since 1917, when her great-great-grandfather established a restoration business, Chevalier Conservation. The launch of Chevalier Édition sees her jettisoning the past for the present, some might even say the future. Assembling a stable of designers who specialize in anything but rugs, she challenged each to take a first stab at the loom.

A onetime Hermès and Louis Vuitton designer, Julien Kolmont de Rogier, provided Paris, an aerial view in wool-silk. Ivan Duval and Jean Sebastien, who'd designed cheese-shape sponges and banana-shape bath stickers as partners in Atypyk, took a more subdued approach with two round wool rugs, Aim and Stats. Camping Design's graphics specialists, David Valy and Annelise Cochet, delivered scratch-pad spontaneity in Premier Trafic, also in wool. Confluence. Furniture designer Stephan Lanez admits the rug sector didn't seem very contemporary to him at first glace. But his wool abstraction, Circle 7, certainly is.

All GoodWeave-certified, the rugs are hand-knotted in Nepal. Standard and custom colors, fibers, and sizes available. 33-1-43-07-87-44; chevalier-edition.com. circle 437

Delivering drama is Barry Goralnick's job at his architecture firm, Goralnick. And when he switches to two dimensions, he doesn't renege on that obligation. His spatial sense emerges through recurring geometrics in 18 hand-tufted rugs for Stark. He drew on 1950's textiles for wool Interlocking Circles and '60's graphics for wool-viscose Windmills; wool-flax Dashes makes a good alternative to animal print. Specify the rugs in any size or color, even other fibers. 212-752-9000; starkcarpet.com. circle 431

Belle rug in hand-painted canvas by Maude Décor, 604-879-7775; maudedecor.com. circle 455

Bioessence faux-oak tiles in porcelain by the Nemo Tile Company, 212-505-0010; nemotile.com. circle 450

Attention, visual anarchists. Disperse carpet tiles, from the No Rules series, defy programmed arrangements—configurations are left to the specifier's whim. The face of the 24-inch squares features a multilevel pattern-loop construction in Eco Solution Q recyclable solution-dyed nylon; the backing is EcoWorx thermoplastic polyolefin. Select from 14 colors. 800-257-7429; shawcontractgroup.com. circle 441

Always looking for more? Maybe it's time for Less. These through-body porcelain tiles, intended for high-traffic floors, are also suitable for walls inside and out. Produced in black or white with three finish options, the standard sizes are 12 by 24 inches, 24 by 48 inches, and 24 inches square. 212-979-6400; stonesource.com. circle 446

V132 tiles in handmade, hand-painted terra-cotta by Urban Archaeology, 212-431-4646; urbanarchaeology.com. circle 460

Lima wool and silk rug in Chalk-with-Charcoal by Nought Collective. 212-620-0972; thenoughtcollective.com. circle 681

Bermuda Plaid hooked wool rug in Multi by Company C, 800-818-8288; companyc.com. circle 414

Leo Abstract cut-pile Chinese silk rug with natural vegetable dyes by Carini Lang. 646-613-0497; carinilang.com. circle 695