The new year finds Kalaty Rug Corporation celebrating the 45th anniversary of the company’s founding as well as the launch of the company’s newest product presentation at Kalaty’s Las Vegas World Market Center B-455 showroom. In honor of this momentous milestone, Kalaty has just introduced a brand-new beautifully designed full-color 45th anniversary-edition catalog featuring 400-plus pages of Kalaty’s extensive collections of hand-knotted, power-loomed and hand-loomed area rugs in a wide range of styles, weaves, colors, textures and sizes across all décor genres.
“We are excited to be celebrating the 45th anniversary of the founding of our company at this winter’s Las Vegas Market, and we will be toasting this impressive milestone each evening during the show along with our market guests,” says Ramin Kalaty, company president. “Mirza Kalaty, our father and founder, established Kalaty Rug Corporation in the USA in 1979. Today we remain a family-owned company with a proud heritage of producing sophisticated high-end heirloom-quality area rugs, and we continue to produce our rugs using many of his innovative design, coloring and finishing techniques.”
In addition to showing off its impressive new catalog, Kalaty is bringing a wealth of new product to the company’s WMC, B455 showroom. Market visitors will be able to view three fashion-forward hand-knotted collections: Celine, a 100% premium hand-spun wool collection of updated-traditional designs; Forte, a chic modern-meets-traditional wool-Silkette™ collection; Kosta, an elegant eclectic group in a wool-Silkette™ blend.
A number of stylish additions to existing best-selling high-end collections are also on display in Las Vegas: new designs added to the zero-pile 100% premium hand-spun wool Lyra collection of classic hand-knotted floral motifs; the hand-knotted Amalfi collection of updated-Oushak inspirations in modern colors; new designs for the licensed Natori Lhasa collection by world-renowned fashion designer Josie Natori; more tribal and Southwestern styles added to the boldly colored flatweave Soumak Chroma collection; new geometric and abstract patterns added to the high-end power-loomed Celeste collection; exciting additions to the contemporary high-low textural Elara collection; more modern abstract patterns added to the Tibetan-weave Orion collection; charming Oushak-inspired additions for the softly colored Magnolia collection; vintage-inspired classic patterns added to the Khotan collection; energetic contemporary abstract designs for the Juno collection; ruggedly handsome tribal and Southwestern additions to the Mojave collection. There are more new and exciting Kalaty area rugs ready to be discovered at Las Vegas Market, and, as always, the aforementioned new high-end area rugs are in stock and ready to ship.
“Our Las Vegas showroom visitors will be able to appreciate the depth and breadth of our vast color range as well as see and touch the many luxurious textures found throughout our vast product line,” says Kamran Kalaty, a company spokesman. “We always offer designs for every taste and every décor genre within our updated-traditional patterns, our high-energy contemporary abstract and graphic designs as well as in our newest innovative casual transitional styles. We are also offering several market specials to our Las Vegas customers as well as revealing glimpses of things to come at future markets. And for customers who are looking for stylish oversized rugs, we have increased the number of great designs available in our quickly growing Mansion-Sizes – a special selection of 40-plus rugs in sophisticated patterns and colors chosen from among our best-selling high-end collections that are now available in such grand sizes as 13 x 18, 14 x 20, 15 x 22 and 16 x 24.”
Newest Kalaty High-end Collections
- Celine Collection: Stylish “broken” designs and motifs fused with modern fashion colorways elevate the allure of each rug found in this exceptional updated-traditional low-pile collection. Meticulously hand-knotted using premium hand-spun wool yarns.
- Forte Collection: Modern meets traditional in this unique collection where contemporary abstract designs intermingle with traditional elements in border areas, creating an unusual fusion of color and pattern. Meticulously hand-knotted using a combination of premium wool and Silkette™ yarns.
- Kosta Collection: Meticulously hand-knotted using a combination of premium wool and Silkette™ yarns, this outstanding updated-traditional collection features popular fashion-forward colorways that have broad appeal for both traditionalists and modernists alike. Each rug in the collection is finished with a special process to create a low pile or zero pile.
Designs shown above are additions to Kalaty's high-end Lyra (left) and Khotan collections.
Existing High-end Collections with Additions
- Amalfi Collection: Influenced by classic Oushak designs and other timeless motifs, this high-end collection speaks to today’s sophisticated décor tastes through harmonious combinations of pattern and carefully curated fashion-forward color palettes. Meticulously hand-knotted using 100% premium hand-spun wool, each of these stylish rugs features a zero pile for today’s sought-after vintage look.
- Elara Collection: Borderless modern inspirations with erased effects and high-low carving, this collection makes a high-fashion tonal statement. Hand knotted in a Tibetan weave using a combination of premium wool and Silkette™ with a loop-and-pile weave that is hand carved for a three-dimensional look and feel.
- Khotan Collection: Equally at home in both traditional and modern settings, this vintage-inspired collection emulates classic motifs and designs found in treasured antique Khotan rugs. Hand-knotted using a combination of fine wool and Silkette™ yarns in stylish easy-to-live-with colorways.
- Lyra Collection: A stunning high-end collection of classic traditional florals and other desirable motifs meticulously hand-knotted using premium hand-spun wool yarns and featuring zero pile in assorted desirable colors that give the collection an added allure.
- Juno Collection: Modern abstract studies in dimensional texture and high-energy explosions of color are hand-knotted in a Tibetan knot weave using 100% Silkette™ yarns. Specific designs within the collection are hand-carved to impart the special high-low textural effects.
- Magnolia Collection: A collection of softly colored “new-traditional” rugs inspired by classic Oushak designs. Each rug is meticulously hand-knotted using 100% premium hand-spun wool yarns and sheared to a low pile for today’s trendy vintage chic that appeals to both modern and traditional tastes.
- Mojave Collection: Infinitely stylish with a rugged handsome appeal, this uniquely casual collection of tribal and Southwestern patterns and motifs is meticulously hand-knotted using 100% premium hand-spun wool using 100% premium hand-spun wool yarns.
- Natori Lhasa Collection: Fashion industry icon Josie Natori showcases her East-meets-West design aesthetic by “bringing art into life” in a rug series in subdued color palettes inspired by her own abstract prints. Each rug is meticulously hand-knotted in a Tibetan weave using a combination of premium wool and Silkette™ and is further highlighted by high-low carved textural effects.
- Orion Collection: Chic on-trend modern designs and colors comprise this exceptional collection of contemporary abstract artistic expressions. Each of these extraordinary rugs is meticulously hand-knotted in a Tibetan weave using a combination of premium wool and Silkette™ yarns and then finished with intricate hand carving for special high-low textural interest.
- Soumak Chroma Collection: Bold colorways in a variety of tribal and southwestern patterns have been added to this exciting double-sided flatweave collection. Hand-knotted in a Soumak weave using 100% premium wool yarns on a cotton foundation, these versatile reversible rugs feature a distinctive herringbone texture that is characteristic of the classic Soumak weave.
- Oushak Collection: Hand-knotted in a Turkish-style weave, using 100% premium hand-spun wool, these perennially popular rugs remain in a special class of their own. While colors within the collection range from classic traditional colorways to updated-modern tones more in keeping with today’s tastes and lifestyles, all of these timeless designs and motifs retain the unique characteristics so prized in antique Oushaks.
- Celeste Collection: Creative abstract patterns and designs in modern-chic fashion colors, power-loomed in a multi-textural high-low weave using a creative combination of Silkette™ and acrylic yarns. An especially fine power-loomed collection displaying a knots-per-square-inch equal to many high-end hand-knotted styles (620 KPSIE).
Design CS1035-A shown above is a new addition to Kalaty's Celeste collection.
