AN ALAVOINE WOOL CARPET, for the First Class Reading Room of the S.S. "Ile de France", 1949, oval, the pale salmon central field enclosed by a band of stylized scrolling foliage and stars worked in mauve, blue, gray and cream, with a slate gray, cream and blue banded border--122 x 105in. (292.8 x 262.5cm.)
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AN ALAVOINE WOOL CARPET, for the First Class Reading Room of the S.S. "Ile de France", 1949, oval, the pale salmon central field enclosed by a band of stylized scrolling foliage and stars worked in mauve, blue, gray and cream, with a slate gray, cream and blue banded border--122 x 105in. (292.8 x 262.5cm.)
Literature
Jacques Sirat, Françoise Sireix, Tapis Français Du XXe Siècle De L'Art Nouveau Aux Créations Contemporaines, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1993, for an illustration of this carpet in situ