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EMMA GARDNER DESIGN TO UNVEIL NEW WORK AT

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE FAIR (ICFF) IN MAY

The New Color Slick Rug Uses Bold Vivid Colors and Silk to Create

a Luxurious Saturated Effect

Litchfield, Conn. (May 2007) – emma gardner design, llc, makers of contemporary heirloom quality rugs, will add a new design to its collection for this season. The company will unveil the new hand-knotted silk and wool Color Slick, which will be exhibited for the first time at the 2007 International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City on May 19 – 27, 2007. The rug will be available at showrooms and through custom order this summer.

“The inspiration for Color Slick was bold and vibrant color” said Emma C. Gardner, chief designer and principal of emma gardner design, llc. “I wanted to do something with the intensely saturated and beautiful colors of peacock feathers, and also wanted to capture the feeling of an oil slick - the kind you see when a little gas spills at a gas station and in the light it has a beautiful iridescent quality.”

Color Slick is a hand-knotted Chinese silk and Tibetan wool rug that incorporates a repeat peek-through pattern of “liquid spills”. The wool features a 5 mm pile and the silk a 5.5 mm pile, and the rug is 100 knots per square inch. Offered in one standard color way, Peacock, Color Slick is also available in custom colors and sizes. The retail price is $150 per square foot.

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“Color Slick represents some new directions for me as a designer,” Gardner said. “I continue to think more and more about materials and ways to explore them. With this rug I wanted there to be a flow between the deep blue/greens and green/blues that simulated a kind of ‘liquid spill of color’ and silk is the best medium for that. I discovered with earlier rugs that using different colors of silk next to each other, especially ones fairly close in range, produces a kind of watercolor effect. This rug also has large scale but very organic shapes, less graphic or literal than some other designs I've done.”

emma gardner design, llc is a boutique design and development company that produces fine contemporary interior products for use in residential, office and hospitality spaces. Chief designer Emma C. Gardner was the winner of a 2006 Best of Year award from Interior Design for her Joy rug. Based in Litchfield, Connecticut, the company offers its products through select showrooms and is a proud member of the RUGMARK Foundation, a global non-profit organization working to end child labor.

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