Galerie | Fort Street Studio
Meet the Makers Behind Fort Street Studio’s Painterly Collection of Rugs
Brad Davis and Janis Provisor have works in some of the most esteemed museums in the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Albright-Knox Art Museum. But many collectors find the couple’s finest designs to be best underfoot. As the founders and creators of luxury rug purveyor Fort Street Studio, Davis and Provisor translate contemporary artworks into painterly rugs.
Launched in the mid-1990s, Fort Street Studio helped redefine the rug industry by introducing more free-flowing forms, at the time a dramatic departure from the traditional patterns and shapes. Today, their unique creations can be found in remarkable interiors conceived by such designers as Francis Sultana, Christian Lyon, and Jacques Grange as well as in a comprehensive new monograph The Tale of Warp and Weft (Rizzoli). “The book is really about how we made this groundbreaking leap into this new watercolor style and now it’s become almost the industry standard,” Davis tells Galerie.
