Welwyn Garden City was drawn before it was built, neat parcels laid out on paper long before a single house went up, each plot given its own modest rectangle within a larger, carefully considered whole. This rug carries that same planning instinct indoors: overlapping fields of clay, sage, and putty laid out like plots on a master drawing, each one marked at its edge with small triangles, arrows, and dashes, the kind of notation a planner leaves rather than a decorator. Shaped in the workshops of Jaipur, the wool is hand-tufted in broad, even fields, with the smaller marks worked in a finer, lustrous thread so each one holds its place rather than dissolving into it. Beneath a Georgian cornice or bare concrete, the order holds without ever feeling rigid. In a Hampstead study, it brings the unhurried logic of good town planning somewhere it's rarely been welcome.
