Angela Adams Collection: Tapestries and Rugs

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The Angela Adams Collection are the high-end hand-crafted pieces that are made to order. The various series include rugs and tapestries that are complex, multi-layered pieces; colorful and quite unusual. The designs are bold, free-form and flowing and are, like all of Angela Adams' work, strongly influenced by nature.

Top row, left to right:
1. Forest Floor Rug from the Birds and the Bees Collection
2. Easton's Pond Tapestry from the Couture Collection
3. Rainbow Tapestry from the Couture Collection
4. Underground Tapestry from the Birds and the Bees Collection
5. Rain Tapestry from the Couture Collection

Bottom row, left to right:
6. Utopia Tapestry from the Utopia Collection
7. Haven Rug from the Utopia Collection
8. Sunset Rug from the Birds and the Bees Collection

More info: Angela Adams Collection

Comments (24)

they are so pretty!
i would be scared of getting them dirty though...my puppy loves to chew rugs.

posted by ash_c on March 13th 2009 at 9:49am
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I'm on the fence with these. On the one hand they look textural and beautiful and on the other hand it could look like an HR PuffNStuff acid laced trip.

posted by dnice on March 13th 2009 at 9:49am
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i'm lusting after everything in that first photo.

posted by erinpeace on March 13th 2009 at 9:52am
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I want one SO badly now!

posted by mskk on March 13th 2009 at 9:57am
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Does anyone know anything about the couch and table in the first picture? I love them!

posted by ramblingirl on March 13th 2009 at 9:59am
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Her rugs are cool, but they always look like they'd be hard to clean because of all the texture.

posted by TrueTex on March 13th 2009 at 10:03am
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Likely, the furniture is Sherwood Hamill.

posted by AMP on March 13th 2009 at 10:06am
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i love these so much it hurts to imagine how expensive they are and i totally see the HR puffNstuff similarities, and embrace them.

posted by Conadee on March 13th 2009 at 10:07am
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They are all beautiful; i would love to have one in my living room!

posted by kimmiller on March 13th 2009 at 10:14am
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These are super fun. I have been in love with the concept of a rug with an old world style map on it, but have not been able to find one. Has anyone seen such a thing?

posted by kiljoywashere on March 13th 2009 at 10:16am
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rainbow!! ahhh me likey likey

posted by FC on March 13th 2009 at 10:16am
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My feline would be endlessly entertained by that rug (at least until it was in tatters, and then some).

posted by Pixie on March 13th 2009 at 10:23am
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Angela Adams is great. The magazine I am the Art Director at Maine Home Design magazine, we will be doing an article on Angela Adams and her designs. It will be in the May issue we are currently working on. She lives in Portland Maine where our magazine is out of.

The rugs shown above seem to be her more layered and colorful designs, but she has quite a number of simpler designs although still the same idea and absolutely lovely.

She tends to buy locally so I have a feeling the furniture is a Maine custom furniture maker. Thos Moser? Green Design? No idea but those might be places to start.

posted by msjessiemeghan on March 13th 2009 at 10:37am
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Oh some of that furniture is HER design. cool!

posted by msjessiemeghan on March 13th 2009 at 10:39am
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Nice, I like this a lot.

posted by HardcoreSouma on March 13th 2009 at 10:42am
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Love the first rug, but I think I'd trip and fall.

posted by robinette on March 13th 2009 at 10:46am
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I would put this in a child's room and that's about it. Just a lil too.....much for my taste.

posted by copelli21 on March 13th 2009 at 11:23am
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i wouldn't want to walk on them they are so pretty! definitely wouldn't fit in to many decors either.

posted by modkitten on March 13th 2009 at 11:32am
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I would have liked the first rug when I was a kid - to play with my Matchbox cars on...

...but not so much now.

posted by bepsf on March 13th 2009 at 12:18pm
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People this is 2009, can we not just go to Google and type Angela Adams? That is her husband's furniture line.

http://www.angelaadams.com/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?display=action&emptyoverride=yes&template=PDGCommTemplates/Header_Footer/slides_collection.html

posted by SBMODERN on March 13th 2009 at 12:52pm
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i am impressed with these. i hope this is signalling a change for her. up to now, her designs have always really bored me because she is so derivative and self-consciously retro.

posted by twelveindustries on March 13th 2009 at 1:53pm
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When we sold out house and had money for the first time in our lives we purchased an Angela Adams rug for our new nouse. It looks great but I have to say it hasn't held up well. It has a lot of burrs and pulls. I was disappointed considering how much it cost. It will eventually end up in my son's room.

posted by Shoodylu on March 13th 2009 at 2:36pm
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Meh

posted by Comicgeek on March 14th 2009 at 6:19am
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I have Angela Adams' Island Rug in Chocolate ... a predominantly dark brown rug with fun circles of blue and yellow-green. It was the jumping off point for my colour scheme in my living room -- the colours make me so happy :)

I have no problem cleaning my rug, but then again, it isn't as heavily textured as the ones in these photos.

posted by nerdnik on March 14th 2009 at 11:33pm
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