News & Press

We're so happy when Joe Carini's timeless animal prints find their way into trend stories and onto decorating pages in the country's top shelter titles. Our tigers and zebras with their distinctive and often high-color stripes have been selected recently by editors whose taste we love and whose pages are a visual feast. In September, the very fabulous Tori Mellott of Traditional Home highlighted Tiger Caramel in a truly fun piece about style through the decades. Editor in Chief Ann Maine has been taking Traditional Home to new heights of design coverage this year, and Tori and her team bring it all together in product columns that make us wish and dream. One of Joe's all-time favorite eras is the 70's and Tiger Caramel looked right at home with Tori's roundup of 70s style:

And, on newsstands now, the festive and truly beautiful November/December issue of Veranda is the venue for Zebra Indigo. Editor in Chief  Dara Caponigro elected to festoon both front and back covers with holiday entertaining beauty shots and the entire issue follows suit and is simply gorgeous. Veranda's Tori Jones put Zebra Indigo on a page where we want, well everything. 

With headlines like "Five Seductive Kitchen Faucets" and "Romantic Utility: Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen," lifestyle consultant Andie Day's blog is a tasty compendium of style and design. We also love her good advice: "Spend your money where it will matter most. Buy the best quality rugs and carpets you can because quality means they will last longer. Splurge on a hand-knotted wool or silk rug because it will last generations." Carini Lang is featured today in a profile in Andie's "Inspiration" section, and we're pleased to be in the good company of other inspiring home and fashion brands whose latest collections are currently among Andie's headliners, such as the great French trim house Houles whose outrageous trim is featured above. She also reviews the latest from the fine Italian linen house of Frette and fashion designer Marios Schwab.

If you love New York magazine's twice yearly design editions, you're going to be over the moon for this. A whole magazine, 125+ pages devoted to design coverage. One of our favorite shelter editors, Wendy Goodman, is getting a freestanding platform to show us even more of what's wonderful about New York design. The magazine, debuting in May is, according to the marketing promo, going to offer up "a fresh approach to design, with exclusive access to the city's most amazing spaces, insider advice and tips from the city's hottest designers, and an essential resource guide to the very best in the design industry." Wow.

The March issue of British House & Garden has a light, bright next-gen well story on Vincent Frey's super-fab Paris home that's anything by traditional. Their fresh takes on interational design have us craving more.

Last summer Joe and I had the distinct pleasure of hosting a visit to the showroom by British House & Garden Publisher Kate Slesinger and associate publisher Liz Jeans. What a treat. While I confess to adoring everything British, I swear that wasn't it. Smart, savvy and funny, the UK ladies wowed us with their knowledge of everything from fashion (Kate is late of British VOGUE, after all) to culture and design. They showed us some thick, glossy, drop-dead gorgeous issues of the magazine and we were hooked. Check it out for yourself.

Also in March, this spread on a home in the 'bu by architect Craig Ellswood. And the garden coverage is transportive. Magical.

One of our favorite people in the industry is the esteemed editor Jason Kontos of New York Spaces.

Photo: ELLE Decor

Carini Lang is previewing its new line of blankets and throws with a rather enticing teaser.  A group of baby alpaca blankets incorporating the finest handcraft techniques from two very distant continents, the Carini Lang Water’s Edge Collection is a collaborative design project by two Manhattan-based designers:  textile wizardress D. Bryant Archie, and our own co-founder and Creative Director, Joe Carini.

Joseph Carini’s carpets, especially his most elaborate and complex contemporary works, have been gaining quite an international following, and the foreign press have been taking notice. Most recently, Germany’s über-smart ZEIT MAGAZIN (Time Magazine) featured Joe’s NYC Satellite Rug from the recently launched Map Series.

We’re in an Empire state of mind this week, as New York magazine’s Strategist column is running a feature on Joe’s Map Series rugs!

Karen Singh's Key to My Heart Rugs

Karen Singh, an interior designer who has worked for firms as broad-ranging as Hardy Hotlzman Pffiefer and MTV has designed a new area rug. Joseph Carini got to know Karen when she was the Market Editor at the esteemed design trade publication Interior Design. When she started her own product design firm, the two began discussing which of her designs might make a great rug. Aptly named “Key to my Heart,” the first in this series inspired by everyday objects offers rich contrast: whimsy and geometry, silken glimmer and woolly warmth, nature’s bare fibers and rich botanical color. They rugs are hand-knotted of chunky, sweater-y wool and sumptuous, sleek banana-silk in standard or custom sizes and rich botanically-dyed colors from Joseph Carini’s signature palette. Designed by Karen Singh and available through Carini Lang. To learn more about Karen: http://www.karensinghdesigns.com

Houston's "Paper City" found Ocean Jasper at Carol Piper

The widely read fashion/style/design pages of Houston’s “Paper City” newspaper are beautifully curated, so we were pleased when design editor Holly Moore highlighted Joe’s Ocean Jasper rug. We don’t offer our designs just anywhere, because ordering a custom Carini Lang carpet is something that requires the utmost care and attention to detail, but we’re proud to be represented in the Lone Star state by Houston’s esteemed Carol Piper showroom. Check out some cool historical rug design articles by Carini Lang alum Ryan Reitmeyer on their blog if you’re into neoclassical design and/or eagles.

"Wild Thing" tablescape for DIFFA

Architectural Digest, a media sponsor of DIFFA’s Dining by Design ran a feature in its September issue on the many creative and fun tablescapes at the event, including ours, pictured above. We had so much fun at the event and are proud to support the outstanding work of Design Industries’ Foundation Fighting AIDS – DIFFA.

Super-smart and ultra-chic design coverage by editor DJ Carey and her team helps distinguish Connecticut Cottages & Gardens as one of the savviest regional shelter books in the country. We also love that she celebrates carpets with such enthusiasm. In February, DJ selected Joe’s innovative “Dots” in natural white silk and wool. We think it would look fabulous in any of the Nutmeg state’s stately or casual interiors, whether traditional, transitional or contemporary. Often imitated, this is the original and now a signature Carini Lang look.

Here it is: