LAS VEGAS MARKET TOUR: PEOPLE & PRODUCTS, PART 2
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LAS VEGAS -- The recent Las Vegas Market, held from July 30-Aug.3, offered plenty of fresh designs for clicks and bricks retailers and a growing roster of interior designers who showed up to take a look at introductions from their favorite area rug vendors.
In this two-part series, RugNews.com toured showrooms in search of best-sellers and hints of blossoming trends for the balance of the year. Texture, value and fashionable colors drove area rug sales and many executives surveyed anticipated finishing the year on a positive note.
In fact, soon after the close of the market, organizer International Market Center (IMC) declared the summer show a success, with key increases in gift buyer attendance, a stable home furnishings attendance and burgeoning support from the interior design community.
What's more, the Vegas show continues to introduce new features that entice designers to showrooms, among them the popular Designer #ViewOnVegas featuring 30 leading designers and top tastemakers sharing their favorite product finds at market, designer-led Trend Tours with stops at rug showrooms, and the third annual ANDYZ design awards highlighting West Coast interior designers.
And then, there was also the Las Vegas Market's Designer Soiree, celebrated at Tableau at the Wynn Las Vegas, which included a star-studded designer guest list, among them Roger Thomas of Wynn Design and Development, Barclay Butera, Julia Buckingham, Dann Foley, Thom Filicia, Ron Woodson and Jaime Rummerfield.
Above, Las Vegas Market's Designer Soiree at Tableau at the Wynn Las Vegas featured a star-studded crowd including Roger Thomas, Barclay Butera, Julia Buckingham, Dann Foley, Bob Maricich, Thom Filicia, Ron Woodson and Jaime Rummerfield. Beow, Ande Maricich, Roger Thomas of Wynn Design and Development, and Bob Maricich of Las Vegas Market.
In Part 2 of RugNews.com's exclusive People & Products report, we tour dozens of area rug showrooms at World Market Center to find out who shopped the show and what looks and weaves -- driven by value and texture -- proved to be the blockbusters of summer market.
Below we tour showrooms from Loloi to United Weavers. Make sure not to miss
Part 1, where we covered companies from Amer to Kas.
LOLOI
Cyrus Loloi and Lauren Williams of BOHO by Lauren / Lauren Williams Art + Home in Frisco, Texas, stand in front of the Loren collection, a favorite Loloi introduction chosen for her Las Vegas Market Instagram takeover.
Loloi's Vegas market hits include its latest Bohemian styled Loren collection of timeless designs with vintage hand-knotted looks at an affordable price. Created in Turkey using advanced rug-making technology, these printed designs provide a textured effect by portraying every individual knot on a soft polyester base.
Also, hot in Vegas was the intricately hand-knotted Legacy collection, which is crafted in India of 100 percent wool. Legacy has deliberately distressed patterns and is sheared down to an extra low pile, creating a patina usually only imparted through decades of wear. 
Loloi's elegant hand-knotted Legacy collection, hand-knotted of wool, was a market top seller, and displayed in extra large size.
MOMENI
Ali Momeni, back row center, gets ready to present Momeni introductions to the Macy's Fine Rug Gallery/Kenneth L. Mink & Sons Inc. team attending Las Vegas Market.
Momeni had plenty of new designs to offer summer shoppers both its own line and its popular license program with celebrity designers The Novogratz, which launched a dedicated store front on Amazon's website during market (read more).
Popular new releases include the Novogratz' indoor-outdoor Villa, a polypropylene flat-woven collection with global designs, and the Momeni branded market hits, Juliet, crafted of polypropylene with silk-like viscose accents, and Lenox, crafted of polypropylene in Turkey.
Juliet, made of polypropylene with silk-like viscose shrink pressed accents, proved a Momeni best-seller at Vegas Market.
NOURISON
Julia Buckingham of Buckingham Interiors + Design in Chicago and Phoenix leads her Ahead of the Curve tour at LVM to Nourison, where she picks this dramatic Prismatic collection rug for her Instagram takeover.
Nourison showcased one-of-a-kind hand-knotted wool and silk rugs rich in detailing at the Vegas summer market. Its new Ocean and Ellora collections proved the stars. The Ocean range features a soft and luminous hand-knotted pile in chenille-like texture crafted of a blend of wool, linen and rayon in a range of shore and surf colors. The Ellora collection of contemporary abstract designs features a soft thick texture crafted of a hand-knotted wool blend. Shags did very well for the company, as did new styles added to the Aldora collection.
Nourison's first-floor showroom gave more play to the growing assortment of Mina Victory pillows for the summer show. New pillow designs featured tassels and pom poms, velvets with tie dye effect and details such as mirrors. And the company's shag pillows in a range of vibrant colors were a best seller.
Hand-knotted designs were a Nourison focus for market. The new ribbed chenille-look Ocean (OSC01 in onyx), pictured hanging (bottom) and the Divine collection design (above), were Vegas top sellers.
NULOOM
Nuloom's Koorosh Yaraghi and Monica Marquez flank Sara Weaver of Gilt, New York, all posing in front of a new shaggy diamond trellis design.
Nuloom, a relative newcomer to Las Vegas Market, has targeted its business on fashion-driven rugs for the online segment, and by participating in Vegas the company hopes to grow its reach to multiple brick and mortar channels.
Among show shoppers' top area rug picks were the erased-style of Verona RZBD
07A and the Moroccan-inspired Blythe RZBD 16A, both crafted of polypropylene and machine made in Turkey.
Also popular was the Vivid silk collection's Pink Shimmer vintage-look area rug and the machine woven polypropylene Vintage collection's Corbett design (KKCB 11A) in pink and blue.
Nuloom's Moroccan inspired Blythe design RZBD 16A, machine made in Turkey, was a top seller at Las Vegas Market.
ORIAN
Amazon Canada buyers were browsing Orian's popular Wild Weave machine made olefin designs at Las Vegas Market.
Orian's Wild Weave and Next Generation collections continue to be the company's top sellers, said Orian's Don Newton, senior vice president of sales and marketing. Wild Weave offers a soft. plush pile texture with up to 12 colors in each rug, while Next Generation uses the company's Fusion Color technology to create up to 24 color combinations that can be woven into each rug with a space dyed yarn effect. Both are machine made in the U.S.
A rug called Jacqueline from the best-selling Wild Weave collection is a long-running Orian best seller.
ORIENTAL WEAVERS
Oriental Weaver's new indoor-outdoor Marina rugs in black and white made a bold statement at summer market
Oriental Weavers debuted several new collections at market, including two indoor-outdoor collections, the cut-loop and pile Barbados and graphic Marina. In addition, shoppers in the market for American-made area rugs had two brand new collections to choose from.
Oriental Weavers' Dawson collection uses a textured barber-poled polypropylene yarn to create intricate designs with an artisan look. Decorative styles range from distressed traditionals and abstracts to global traditionals and tribal motifs. Also made domestically, Beckett includes over 50 shades of color in its designs in a sun-washed palette of mineral hues, including slate blue, warm clay, soft moss green, blue agate, cinnamon and mahogany. Patterns range from chic global traditionals to painterly abstracts, all machine woven of 100 percent polypropylene.
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Dawson by Oriental Weavers features detailed designs machine woven in the U.S.with an artisan-crafted look.
RIZZY HOME
Donny and Debbie Osmond strike a pose for RugNews.com with their latest pillow collection by Rizzy Home.
Rizzy Home had Donny and Debbie Osmond posing for RugNews.com and reviewing their latest pillow collections at the company's World Market Center suite.
In addition, Rizzy's area rug hits at the Vegas event included the Modern and Gossamer collections. Gossamer, in transitional and updated traditional designs, is power-loomed from New Zealand wool that's been four-times hand-washed. Also a market top seller, the new Modern collection of abstract designs is hand-tufted in India of 80 percent wool and 20 percent viscose.
Rizzy Home's Gossamer collection, power-loomed of four-times hand-washed New Zealand wool, was a Vegas favorite.
SAFAVIEH
From left, Kevin Yaraghi, Emir Aziz, and Andrew Yaraghi of Safavieh with Salar Yaraghi and Sina Yaraghi of area rug e-tailer Rug Savings, Miami.
In its first-floor showroom in Building A, Safavieh offered fashion-driven goods across home categories ranging from outdoor furnishings and home accessories to area rugs in every category. Vignettes in the main entry displayed the company's cross-category solutions to small outdoor spaces.
Popular collections among summer shoppers at market included Kilim, a range of fringed black-and-white Moroccan inspired looks made in a wool and cotton blend in India. Also a best seller was the all-wool Essence range of power-loomed. no-dye machine-made rugs.
Safavieh's new Nomadic design from the fringed Kilim collection, with its black and white motifs, was a hit at market.
TAYSE
Dana Baze of the Final Touch in Edmond,Oklahoma, and Tayse's Travis Ayers pose in front of one of the rug maker's new boldly colored abstract designs.
Tayse introduced its new Aria collection of 35 designs in Las Vegas and the traditional and Boho-chic patterns and adventurous hues resonated with buyers. Made in Turkey, Aria designs, which include up to 16-colors, feature a soft low-maintenance polypropylene pile with cotton backing.
Also well-received at market were the Dynasty collection, a flat-woven acrylic chenille, Tayse's uber-soft microfiber Silkati shags, and the cut-loop pile shag Berkshire collection.
Tayse's new machine-made Aria collection features reworked traditional designs in fashion colors with a soft polypropylene pile and cotton backing.
TRANS-OCEAN
Trans-Ocean designer Liora Manne stands in front of a popular new coastal pattern called Nautical from the Napoli collection.
Trans-Ocean returns to the machine-made indoor rug category with the unveiling of its Wilton weave Mesa and Palace collections at Las Vegas Market. Mesa features patterns inspired by Southwest design and Palace reworks classic motifs in both traditional and fashion palettes.
Also attracting the attention of summer market shoppers, were newly added designs to Trans-Ocean's popular Terrace collection, an indoor-outdoor range.
Target buyers browse Trans-Ocean's debuting Palace collection, one of two indoor machine-made area rug introductions at summer markets.
UNITED WEAVERS
Betty Woodard and Diane Carleo of United Weavers pose in front of Camelot in cerulean, from the new Jules collection.
United Weavers offered buyers not only several new collections to view at Vegas market, but also offered summer shoppers a new 12x15 size option in some designs. Show hits include the Kent design in cerulean from the cross-woven Rhapsody collection, made of heat set olefin with a heavy construction and cotton back. Debuting in Vegas as well, the Camelot design in cerulean from the new Jules collection is made of heat set olefin and polyester.
In addition, show shoppers appreciated the expansion of the Twelve Oaks collection to include a 12x15 size. Because of its cotton backing it is foldable and shipping is easy with no wrinkles.
United Weaver's Rhapsody collection's Kent design in cerulean stopped Ls Vegas Market shoppers in their tracks.