If Collins & Aikman Carpet had been “just another carpet” when it was intro
duced two years ago, it would hardly have created such a commotion. But people possessed of decorative imagination quickly saw that here was a new decora
They had good reason. Here was a new kind of soft, quiet carpet — one that was much more exciting than its cost would lead one to expect. Collins & Aik
Sections are joined by a new process which gives an unbroken broadloom ap
pearance. A new phrase has come into the language to describe the result. Collins & Aikman Carpet is seemingly seamless.
Any number of colors may be combined, to give special effects such as the one in the photograph above, without the excessive cost of special weaving. Individual designs, inlaid crests and monograms, special borders — or plain-color
This color photograph was taken in a home in Forest Hills, Long Island. The Collins & Aikman Carpet, in Tuscan red, marine blue and gray, was furnished and laid by R. H. Macy & Co., New York.
Every day we get more requests for our illustrated booklet, which deals more fully with the decorative significance of this new carpet, tells of its durability and economy, of the ease of cleaning afforded by its dust-proof, moisture-proof back. We’ll be glad to send you a copy, if you’ll write to Collins & Aikman Corporation, 25 Madison Avenue, New York City.
© 1932
USED AND SOLD BY LEADING STORES AND INTERIOR DECORATORS
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL April 1932 Vol. LXXI, No. 4. Published monthly. Publication Office, 10 Ferry Street, Concord, New Hampshire. Editorial and General Offices, 8 Arlington Street Boston, Massachusetts. 35c a copy, $3. 00 a year; foreign postage $1. 00. Entered as second-class matter June 20, 1916, at the Post Office at Concord, New Hampshire, U. S. A., under the
Act of March 3, 1879. Printed in the U. S. A.
duced two years ago, it would hardly have created such a commotion. But people possessed of decorative imagination quickly saw that here was a new decora
tive medium — and proceeded to get more and more stirred up about it.
They had good reason. Here was a new kind of soft, quiet carpet — one that was much more exciting than its cost would lead one to expect. Collins & Aik
man Carpet sells at the moderate price of the old-fashioned strip carpet that had
to he stitched together. But while it comes in 54-inch widths, it never shows a surface marred by stitched seams when laid.
Sections are joined by a new process which gives an unbroken broadloom ap
pearance. A new phrase has come into the language to describe the result. Collins & Aikman Carpet is seemingly seamless.
Any number of colors may be combined, to give special effects such as the one in the photograph above, without the excessive cost of special weaving. Individual designs, inlaid crests and monograms, special borders — or plain-color
This color photograph was taken in a home in Forest Hills, Long Island. The Collins & Aikman Carpet, in Tuscan red, marine blue and gray, was furnished and laid by R. H. Macy & Co., New York.
broadloom effects in rooms of any size or shape — all these things are now practical with Collins & Aikman Carpet.
Every day we get more requests for our illustrated booklet, which deals more fully with the decorative significance of this new carpet, tells of its durability and economy, of the ease of cleaning afforded by its dust-proof, moisture-proof back. We’ll be glad to send you a copy, if you’ll write to Collins & Aikman Corporation, 25 Madison Avenue, New York City.
COLLINS & AIKMAN CARPET
© 1932
USED AND SOLD BY LEADING STORES AND INTERIOR DECORATORS
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL April 1932 Vol. LXXI, No. 4. Published monthly. Publication Office, 10 Ferry Street, Concord, New Hampshire. Editorial and General Offices, 8 Arlington Street Boston, Massachusetts. 35c a copy, $3. 00 a year; foreign postage $1. 00. Entered as second-class matter June 20, 1916, at the Post Office at Concord, New Hampshire, U. S. A., under the
Act of March 3, 1879. Printed in the U. S. A.