Hospitality area rug and carpet players at BDNY featured top trends expected to be hits with boutique hotel designers.
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NEW YORK -- Boutique hospitality fair BDNY had exhibitors showcasing their creativity and technical acumen at the 2025 edition.

For many, color was on the table with some exhibitors showcasing moody and dramatic palettes in contrast to other vendors showcasing natural wool tones. Designs spanned the gamut, but organic shapes and forms dominated. Colors that were omnipresent included blue in a range of denim or inky shades, a resurgence of green tones, and browns (from whisky to beige) continued to displace grays. What's more, aubergine, purple, gold and vivid red were injected into many designs for an exciting twist.

“BDNY 2025 captured the creativity, curiosity, and momentum driving hospitality design forward,” said Tim Fearney, Show Director, BDNY. “With more than 11,000 qualified attendees, up 6 percent over 2024, representing over 50 countries and nearly 200 new exhibitors joining us, the event reflected a global community that is eager to experiment, collaborate, and build what comes next.”

Follow RugNews.com in this exclusive rug and carpet tour of some of our editors' favorite picks from the 2025 edition of BDNY.

COURISTAN


Couristan, Couture Stitch. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

Couristan Hospitality unveiled its Couture Stitch collection, which found inspiration from fashion embellishments such as basting stitches, embroidery, crochet, knitting and tambour hook beading. The different effects are created by silken-spun filaments, which add a luminous sparkling effect and tactility to the abstract, organic flowing designs. Among the show-stopping designs was an abstract blue colored design with gold snaking through the abstract field inspired by rivers when viewed from far above. On the booth's floor was a linear patchwork-like pattern in blue and gray tones with warm accents that blur the edges of different rug design elements.


Couristan, Couture Stitch. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

CREATIVE TOUCH


Creative Touch, custom design

Creative Touch showcased a hand-tufted rug in a custom design created for a high-traffic commercial lobby. Crafted of a mix of wool and PET yarn throughout the ground with 100 percent PET yarn used for the design, the geometric pattern offers loop and cut texture in slightly varying pile heights that are ADA compliant.

FERREIRA DE SA


Ferreira de Sa, Alvorada. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

Among the showcased designs at Portuguese carpet and rug manufacturer Ferreira de Sa were several crafted of undyed wool. One of the showstoppers was Alvorada which features a tufted layered fluid motif that evokes the open fields of Portugal's southern Alentejo region. The company also featured the hand tufted Nisa, a natural-colored raised folk-inspired oversize floral pattern.


Ferreira de Sa, Nisa. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

JAIPUR LIVING


Jaipur Living's Angela Esposito with Jaipur Living's new Nylon program rug SMP000079. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

Jaipur Living took home the 2025 Inspire Award in the Best Carpet/Flooring category for its custom and stocked area rugs at BDNY. The company featured a range of styles in rich warm brown colors and inky blues in a fresh slate of hospitality focused weaves. Among the featured introductions was a new program called Nylon, offering a high-density hand-tufted construction woven of 100 percent solution-dyed nylon, which "is a great performance option that outperforms viscose and at the same price point as wool," a company spokesperson said. Other featured custom weaves include Plana, Textere, and Pathways. Plana is a 100 percent wool hand-woven Dhurrie; Texterai is hand-knotted of pure wool in a 4/25 construction; and finally, Pathways is a high-density hand-tufted offering crafted of 70 percent wool/ 30 percent viscose with a cut and loop pile.

The weaves were featured in styles from plush active solids to contemporary geometric motifs that blended cool blue tones with saturated warm brown shades and cool grays. Active solids were featured in emerald green, deep aubergine and tawny brown.

JAN-KATH DESIGN


Jan-Kath Rugs from left to right, Common Threads, Watteau 4, Grass hand tufted in wool and silk, Erased Heritage Skull 1;
and on the floor, Spectrum. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

German rug atelier Jan-Kath Design showcased its latest luxury area rugs, handcrafted in its workshops in Nepal, at the 2025 BDNY. The company focused on its new hand-tufted quality which uses hand-spun wool and silk to give a more organic look and feel to the hand-tufted genre. "It took about a year to invent a new tufting gun to accommodate the natural hand-spun materials.  It is really quite revolutionary in the world of hand-tufted qualities," said Kyle Clarkson, managing partner at Kyle and Kath, New York. Featured collections include Common Threads, Grass, Erased Heritage and Spectrum.

LIORA MANNE


Liora Manne's Celestial Drift Dreamscape (on the rear wall) and Astrid in Porto Square on the floor. Photo credit:
Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

Design studio Liora Manne, a source for bespoke and customizable wall and floor textiles and rugs showcased its Celestial Drift collection, inspired by the night skies. Crafted of Manne's proprietary felted wool Lamontage, for hospitality installation drama, Celestial Drift is crafted with a special fiber that reacts to black light and has glowing elements when exposed to it.

NOURISON HOSPITALITY


Nourison's GLASSFALL collection was a showstopper. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

Hotel architects, designers and specifiers were stopped in their tracks by Nourison Hospitality's booth. The company introduced its new GLASSFALL collection of six different innovative carpet and rug weaves and some new product types in a range of blue and green tones with accents of deep purple and red tones. GLASSFALL's designs are inspired by the effect of looking at ordinary silhouettes through reeded glass, which transforms them into abstracted linear compositions.

The collection is available in Nourison's Custom Axminster, Infinity, ColorPoint, dye-injection broadloom, hand-tufted, Nourmak, and Nourmak Plus constructions, as well as handmade rugs.


Nourison's GLASSFALL collection features innovative weaves and trend-setting colors. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

OBEETEE


Obeetee's Atelier collection. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

Obeetee debuted its Atelier collection at BDNY 2025. Featured in the booth was the collection’s hand-knotted Parallel rug (pictured above on the rear wall), which offers a subtle linear composition of warm neutral tones. Parallel is knotted of New Zealand wool in the base and a natural silk raised motif for a lustrous texture. In contrast, the Adorned rug (pictured right) offers an ornate motif inspired by filigree and brocade designs. It is hand-knotted of matte New Zealand wool with lustrous silk accents.

Featured on the booth's floor was Moire, inspired by rippling silk fabric. This piece is hand-tufted from a blend of New Zealand wool and durable nylon, and features flowing, linear striations.

OW HOSPITALITY


OW Hospitality designer Shrawana Rajput and the Perna collection she designed.

Oriental Weavers Hospitality showcased a new collection, Prerna, designed by OW's Shrawana Rajput. Each year OW Hospitality showcases designs from one of its in-house designers, many of whom are graphic artists and painters. Rajput, a watercolorist, chose nature as her inspiration and the warm saturated colors of Indian spices, neutralized with beige and greige. Designed for OW's woven Axminster and hand-tufted carpets the collection features a range of abstract designs, including florals and geometrics, in warm rich colors with aubergine and accents of reds lending the lineup a moody and dramatic energy.

"Our woven Axminster carpets are used to create an illusion of depth with lots of texture. Our yarn is dyed before in a separate process and the pattern is part of the weave structure, which is very unique to our carpets -- our designs are part of the weave structure." Gavin McDowell, OW Hospitality president, told rug news.com.

“We are showcasing what you can do with an OW Hospitality design and how you can use it to introduce creativity into custom projects.”


OW Hospitality's Prerna 

SURYA


Surya showcased its three brands -- Surya,  Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, and Global Views -- in a relocated booth.
Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

Surya Contract showcased its area rugs in a spacious booth outfitted with the company's Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams branded upholstery and Global Views accent pieces. Rugs were featured in two cross-category vignettes. Among the showcased designs is a geometric abstract (GTN-2302) in warm soft neutral colors from the new Georgetown collection. This lineup is hand-crafted of 55 percent wool, 35 percent viscose and 10 percent nylon. Also displayed on the booth's floor was Indiana, AI-2304, which offers a hand-knotted understated abstract linear pattern in warm neutrals.

In addition, Surya showcased floor covering samples in a minimalist box display, which accommodated 24 trending designs, from checkerboard looks to updated traditional.


Surya's hand-woven Indiana rug and sample display. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

WARP & WEFT


Warp & Weft, spotlights Block Echo from the Forma collection with Gensler. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com

Warp & Weft expands its collection alongside renowned design practice Gensler, adding Forma, which reimagines familiar elements from landscapes and architecture into distinctly modern rug compositions. The designs are available in four weaves including hand-knotted, hand-tufted, Axminster and flat woven. The collection includes four design series: Block, Orbit, Tray, and Block Echo, with three patterns in each. Orbit presents a softer, more fluid aesthetic, using expressive linework to evoke natural and celestial patterns. Tray focuses on small-scale designs that reference both the tactile qualities of materials and the layered textures of topography. Block Echo reinterprets the Block concept through repetition, creating rhythmic compositions that explore depth and movement. Designs are offered in either neutral color combinations or brighter tones.


Warp & Weft, Forma collection hanging. Photo credit: Daniel Franco for RugNews.com