Custom Sculpted Area Rugs

This custom designed and created sculpted area rug to the left was executed in 1990, and made Gino an overnight success for his custom rug designs. After displaying this area rug at the Miami Beach Home Show that year, and having photos of it taken, he later strolled through the Show and found that other Rug companies had actually stolen his photos of this rug, and placed it in their portfolios! Since then, many companies have tried to copy his design style, (He's even seen similar designs in high end design magazines, reflections of the rug to your left) but Gino is the originator of this custom area rug design and continues to make them in a similar, but unique fashion to this day.

The rug on the right is shown as it is being installed in the Clients' home in Boca Raton, Fl. It measures 14 by 25 feet. All the custom rugs are made by hand from start to finish. Gino begins by seeing the prospective Clients' decor, taking photos of the rooms, taking measurements of all the furniture that will be involved, and then does a rendering or two. The drawings are in colors that simulate the carpet Gino and the Client have previously chosen, and they are to proper scale. (Precise measurements and Photos can also be sent to him if it is inconvienient for Gino to be there in person.) It helps immensely in this situation to also send him color swatches of the furniture, drapes, and wallpaper or paint.

When a custom rug design is chosen, Gino then has the carpet ordered and begins to "scale up" the drawing. This becomes his template for the rug. All of the colors are marked on the template that will match the original rug design. Depending upon the size and detail of the rug, they can take anywhere between 2 weeks and two months to complete. The rugs are made completely by hand. The binding is also hand cut by Gino or his wife, and is then sewn. It is typically made of leather, vinyl, suede or another matching colored heavy weight commercial fabric. Almost every company out Gino has ever come in contact with chooses to use the cheap, polyester see-through binding most typically made available to area rug companies as "the trade standard binding". He hates the cut-rate look so refuses to use it.

The backing on the carpet is either Monks' cloth or some other sturdy fabric.

The custom designed area rug to your left and right is exclusively designed for a bedroom. The bed itself sits on the rug. There is a peacock at each side of the headboard, and the border is scroll-work. The eyes of the peacocks are glass-baubles that Gino inserted. The custom area rug measures 7' wide by approx. 7 1/2' long. It took 2 weeks to create this rug.

The field carpet in the rug is made by Masland, and the line is called "Reggae". It resembles small knotted pebbles with another thin line of color running through the center of each knot. The other carpet used in the borders and for the peacock is top of the line for America, " Fabrica ", of the Chez line. Because there are different types of carpet used in the rug, it is called a textured rug.

These two custom designed sculpted area rugs were for the same Client. Her and her husband actually had a total of 6 rugs made, all matching the flow of the home. Most Clients do order more than one rug. In this manner, all the rugs have a connective look to them. In most cases, it also saves the Client money when ordering the carpet as well.

The lady of the house liked Ginos' idea of cutting "tile" into the fields, to match the same size and diagonal line of the tile the rugs would fall upon. Gino carves these lines straight into the rugs, as well as going around each color with his carver. The Fabrica carpet is the softest, so also takes the most passes with his carver to get a sharp, well defined line that does not shift when stepped upon. This is one of Ginos' known trademarks.

These custom area rugs were huge, and to complete the entire job took many months. The estate they now reside in is in Naples, Florida.

Designers! Receive more information regarding working with Gino as your artist and rug creator by contacting Gino through email for more information. You can also call Gino through Saturday between the hours of 10:00 am and 8:00 pm, E.S.T., @ This way you will find much more Designer and Architect information, articles, how to work with Gino on selling, creating and fabricating a set of custom designed area rugs for your client(s).

                    

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Whether you want a custom fabricated, designed and hand carved area rug with upholstery weight fabric borders that match your own furniture, leather borders or inserts, glass inserts or even linoleum (plus many others) Gino is highly capable and been doing this type of work for many, many years. he's quite comfortable with new ideas and welcomes your input into the design and fabrication of customized area rugs.

Depending upon Your Needs, custom area rugs have different "fields". A field is the center piece of carpet, the largest part of the sculpted area rug. The field can be made of wood sisal, bamboo mat of a dense weave, wool sisal, carpet of various textures, from "pencil point" to "needle point", to a texture that is called "stone" or "pebble", which originated in Germany from German companies, but is now used as wall to wall carpet, and also in textured area rugs. See Peacock custom Rug with Glass bauble Eye, as a picture reference of pebble type carpet. Be sure to click on the picture for the link to an enlarged view of the pebble textured field.

The field can then have a carpet border, or many other types of borders, like leather, fabric, vinyl, regular carpet borders or left borderless.