The best rugs to buy now, from designer to high street

This abstract design fresh from the high street mimics the mark making of an ancient script and is handwoven in India. £300, habitat.co.uk

Unconventional in shape, this rug is constructed using different techniques including boucle, velvet, relief and shag pile giving it a unique feel as well as look. £5,485, artemest.com

Softly Scandinavian in style, this rug has a graphic print in soft tones making it the ideal choice for a neutrally decorated space. From £300, woven.co.uk

Design Duo Raw Edges explore the messy underside of hand embroidery, giving it pride of place on the surface of this rug from the 'Backstitch' collection for GAN. £1,036, nest.co.uk

French product designer Inga Sempé’s twist on the classic rug for Magis – a rectangle with the corners cut off – is simple yet elegant. £2,899, aram.co.uk

Love for the Bauhaus school aesthetic shows no sign of waning, so bring it into your own home now with this layered shapes rug. From £1,117, artycraft.fr

Made by hand in Nepal and taken from the mind of the product designer du jour Philippe Malouin, this rug is the perfect union of design and craft credentials. From £5,039, monologuelondon.com

Designer Rebecca Hughes was inspired by the bright recycled plastic rugs she discovered in the 'Wakaam' market in Senegal when choosing the colours for this rug. From £795, floorstory.co.uk

Superstar designer Patricia Urquiola’s sustainable felt rug, made from discarded wool, was the winner of the 2020 ELLE Decoration International Design Award for flooring. £2,349, heals.com

One of four flower motif rugs from the imagination of Barcelona-based artist Santi Moix. There are regular rectangular and circular designs, as well as this one shaped like a flower head. £1440, gomodern.co.uk

King of luxe kitsch Jonathan Adler's hand tufted rug has concentric loops in cool shades with glamorous silver highlights. From £1,395, uk.jonathanadler.com

Constructed from a single rope, which serves as both the warp and weft, this rug pays homage to the Chinese handicraft 'Knotting' which dates back to the Tang Dynasty. £371 per square metre, kvadrat.dk

Introduce a piece of art to your floors with this design by Danish artist Carsten Beck Nielsen for Nordic Knots. From £690. nordicknots.com

Hand knotted in Nepal using Himalayan wool, bamboo silk and linen. Neutral in colour with the most subtle of patterns, it's a timeless design. Price on application, tufenkian.com

Made from New Zealand wool, this kilim’s colour palette and pattern of long oval forms are reminiscent of the set design of a Stanley Kubrick movie. £1,710, elitis.fr

This whimsical rug is the result of a collaboration with contemporary artist Emilia Ike whose work celebrates the objects of the everyday. From £970, layeredinterior.com

With a simple watercolour wash design, this rug is available in a choice of colours – grey, grey ink, cream and blush. £13,250, knotsrugs.co.uk

Constructed from recycled plastic bottles, so robust enough to be used outside as well as in, this is a multitasking piece. £229, naken.co.uk

Not decided on your favourite shade of pink yet? This paint chart-style outdoor rug means you can have them all on your patio floor. £239 per square metre, rugartisan.co.uk

A reinterpretation of the classic 'Ferguson' tartan, which in Gaelic translates to angry, audacious and proud, this rug is worth more than a quick highland fling. £993, ligne-roset.com

Birds and lions parade among the exotic flora on this blended wool and bamboo rug with a luxuriously soft finish. £498, anthropologie.c0m

Influenced by designs used by American Indian tribes, this affordable rug contains recycled wool. £199.99, hm.com

Award winning rug from Ukrainian interior and product designer Daria Zinovatnayna, she references the forms of the Bauhaus school and Russian suprematism. From £750, chaplins.co.uk

Paul Smith was one of the first to collaborate with The Rug Company almost twenty years ago, this is the fashion designer’s latest work. From £2,791, therugcompany.com

Knitwear designer Donna Wilson's rug for SCP references the natural world, beach pebbles and the waves of the ocean reduced to abstract forms. From £925, scp.co.uk

A dip-dyed, ombre effect rug, where deep green graduate to light sage, this design has a calming effect on any room. From £1,295, designersguild.com

The result of a study in colour saturation by Studio Rens, this rug in 'Candy' colours, will add a saturated pop of brightness to your home. From £2,600, moooi.com

Taken from Deirdre Dyson’s ‘Looking Glass’ collection, where she simulates the effects of light playing across glass using the mediums of wool and silk. Price on application, deirdredyson.com

Fashion designer Kitty Joseph's rugs are a joyous celebration of colour, as this diagonal geranium stripe with unexpected purple lines proves. From £1,500, floorstory.co.uk

Eclectic fabric and wallpaper brand Parker and Jules’ first foray into the world of rug design, this is a bold, fun-loving introduction to their style. £645 per square metre, amykent.co.uk

Overlapping circular shapes which mimic how the shadows of coloured drinking glasses interact with each other on a table. From £1,750, chaplins.co.uk

The result of Danish architect Ami Katz's fascination with half finished art work, one side of this rug fades out as if waiting to be completed. £1,242 per square metre, sinclairtill.co.uk

For those who fell in love with the Tate's exhibition of Anni Albers’ work, there’s now a way to bring her inimitable style into your own home. £1,150, christopherfarr.com

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