Apartment Therapy New York | Madeleine and Dudly Edwards' Tire Rug

Madeleine and Dudly Edwards' Tire Rug

Right on Track. This rug design from Madeleine and Dudly Edwards is simple, textural and clever. The couple plays with texture and pattern on a number of their unique projects...

Check out more of their designs at their site, AMAZED. Via Style Files.

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Sorry, I just can't imagine paying money for this...

posted by I Love Upstate on April 2nd 2007 at 5:09am
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With you on that ILoveUpstate, why would I want my livingroom to look like roadkill?

posted by Nisha on April 2nd 2007 at 5:21am
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The problem here is, if you put anything else remotely truck-themed -- or even overtly Industrial in style -- with these rugs, you have a room from Monster House.

posted by wende in the twin cities on April 2nd 2007 at 6:14am
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Wende - Yeah, I was thinking "haute couture for the Orange County Choppers" guys. LOL

posted by I Love Upstate on April 2nd 2007 at 6:25am
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Admittedly, the tire mark design likely has limited fan base (NASCAR fans, anyone?). But...follow the link and take a look at some of their other rugs...I'm especially fond of the zen rock garden (imagine the rake marks in the sand on that little zen garden you got for christmas in 1996).

posted by One Eyed Daruma on April 2nd 2007 at 6:43am
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NASCAR, Jeff Burton, etc... Exactly! For everyone else... eh.

posted by Enrique on April 2nd 2007 at 7:52am
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You had me at Jeff Burton.

posted by patrick (the other one) on April 2nd 2007 at 7:56am
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It's nice to see a pattern that's not floral and cutesy for once. Definitely nothing to do with NASCAR. Why do people want to pigeonhole so much?

posted by charlenemcbride on April 2nd 2007 at 9:15am
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I actually kind of like some of the simpler variations. Has a sense of humor about itself, which is refreshing -- and reminds me of being a kid playing with my Tonka trucks.

posted by ScottB on April 2nd 2007 at 9:31am
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Thank you Charlene and Scott! I was beginning to wonder if I was the only one who found the graphic nature of these unique rugs refreshing...

posted by Aaron on April 2nd 2007 at 9:38am
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Made me smile, it's not like there's mud in the pattern or something.

posted by Anne (in Reno) on April 2nd 2007 at 10:13am
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Makes me want to run a vacuum over it--to get rid of the treadmarks. It seems messy-looking to me.

posted by Enrique on April 2nd 2007 at 2:05pm
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And any NASCAR-er will tell you those ain't the right kind of treads, any how!

posted by patrick (the other one) on April 2nd 2007 at 4:42pm
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You really have to take a look at their website. The tire track rugs are only a sample of their work. Though there are many rug fabricators who specialize in custom carved/sculpted rugs, this couple's work goes well beyond the usual. Regardless of your opinion, they have really taken this form of rug fabrication into an artform.

I wonder what these rugs cost?

posted by John H on April 3rd 2007 at 4:33am
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These are really beautiful rugs especially the hand carving on them. for more hand carved rugs check these

http://www.rugsusa.com/rugsusa/control/keywordsearch?SEARCH_STRING=carved&cid=7005

posted by Franco James on August 24th 2008 at 6:13am
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