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1922 · réf. 51291 — Chicago: Olson Rug Company 1922. 8vo. 32 pp. Colour-illustrated throughout numerous black & white text illustrations. Colour-illustrated softcovers slight shelfwear NF copy. First edition of this lavishly illustrated and scarce Jazz Age flooring catalogue for the famed Chicago rug manufactuer. Found in 1874 by Walter E. Olson this beautiful catalogue includes a number of interior designs showing the rugs fitted into Arts & Crafts homes and Flapper Era homes with decor window treatments and furnishings. The Olson Rug Company was a pioneering recycling firm detailing how they used old carpets rugs and old clothing to produce velvety rugs which would rival in appearance and wearing high grade Wiltons and Axminsters. The Olson Company is perhaps best remembered for the Olson Park and Waterfall which was a popular local tourist attraction located outside the factory until sold to Marshall Field in 1965 which subsequently plowed the gardens under and created a parking lot. Olson Rug Company, paperback