Fort Street Studio

Fort Street Studio Renowned for its painterly hand-knotted carpets that combine the traditional with modern aesthetics For more information, please visit www.fortstreetstudio.com

Founded in 1996 by artists, Janis Provisor and Brad Davis, Fort Street Studio is world renowned for its painterly hand-knotted carpets that combine the traditional with modern, sophisticated aesthetics. The company is widely recognized for its creations, and has mounted highly acclaimed exhibitions in Paris, London and Milan. The brand’s products are regularly featured in the editorials of the mos

t prestigious publications such as The World of Interiors, Architectural Digest, Elle Décor, and Galerie among others. Fort Street Studio operates from its New York City flagship showroom in the Flatiron district of Manhattan. The expansive 8,100 square foot space is bathed in natural light and provides an ideal showcase for the company’s catalog of iconic water-color designs executed in wild Dandong silk, as well as quality ranges of wool and silk hand knotted and flat-woven rugs.

Some rooms take decades to become themselves. This Tribeca library by THĒ CAPPIELLO was built around a single antique s...
08/26/2026

Some rooms take decades to become themselves.

This Tribeca library by THĒ CAPPIELLO was built around a single antique secretary - and everything followed from there: Utrecht armchairs from Cassina, a Francesco Balzano daybed with an onyx side table, Holland & Sherry Interiors upholstery, objects from different eras that somehow always belonged together. Underneath it all, Ground in pure silk - camel and cognac, warm and quiet - holds the room in its particular golden light.

Photos William Jess Laird
Styling Martin Bourne
Design THĒ CAPPIELLO

Janis Provisor arrived at Ian Fleming’s Jamaican estate, GoldenEye, and painted a world that didn’t quite exist yet. Gol...
08/19/2026

Janis Provisor arrived at Ian Fleming’s Jamaican estate, GoldenEye, and painted a world that didn’t quite exist yet. Golden Eye began there - sultry, sun-drenched, the kind of place where the air itself feels like it has a secret.

Woven in wool and mohair, its sandstone palette and rhythmic pattern carry that same charged stillness: fleecy, plush, warm in a way that has nothing to do with temperature.

THĒ CAPPIELLO brought it into a Tribeca residence and let it do what it does - hold a room in a spell it can’t quite explain.

Photos William Jess Laird
Styling Martin Bourne
Design THĒ CAPPIELLO

Cocoa deepening toward the edges, cream pooling at the center - the gradient in this custom rug moves the way light move...
08/10/2026

Cocoa deepening toward the edges, cream pooling at the center - the gradient in this custom rug moves the way light moves across a room: gradually, inevitably, as if it couldn’t have happened any other way.

THĒ CAPPIELLO worked with Paul Melo to coax that ombré from one end of the loom to the other, in a 50-50 wool and silk blend chosen for the particular sheen it produces - warm, alive, impossible to replicate. Beneath a ten-foot Amalfi marble table and a plaster-and-bronze chandelier by Studio Eric Schmitt, the rug holds the room together without announcing itself. A Tribeca dining room, fully realized.

Photos by William Jess Laird
Styling by Martin Bourne

Every carpet begins the same way Janis Provisor does - with water, pigment, and something worth chasing. Otto in Blood O...
07/29/2026

Every carpet begins the same way Janis Provisor does - with water, pigment, and something worth chasing.

Otto in Blood Orange started on paper, in the colors of a hilltop sunset in Roccantica, before it was ever a knot. Hand-knotted in high-altitude wool and cultivated silk, the yarns are dyed to hold that same luminous depth - warm, burning, impossible to pin down.

The sunset over Roccantica burned long enough for Janis Provisor to paint it. What emerged was the shape of an eight - O...
07/23/2026

The sunset over Roccantica burned long enough for Janis Provisor to paint it.

What emerged was the shape of an eight - Otto, in Italian, and the luckiest number she could have chosen. Hand-knotted in high-altitude wool and cultivated silk, the colors shift the way a painting does: differently depending on where you stand, and what the light is doing.

Photos by Jacob Snavely Photography.

As we step into a new chapter as FSS by STARK Carpet, we find ourselves looking back - at the rooms that stayed with us,...
07/15/2026

As we step into a new chapter as FSS by STARK Carpet, we find ourselves looking back - at the rooms that stayed with us, the floors that became part of a place.

Some things are content to be beautiful without explanation - a watercolor bleed of blue and green, crossed diamonds drifting across the floor of a villa where the sea is just outside the door. Yabu Pushelberg designed Raffles Sentosa Singapore to rest quietly between white-sand shore and forested hillside, and asked for something underfoot that felt inevitable. Fort Street Studio reworked KITE over the course of several weeks until the palette belonged entirely to the place.

Discover KITE - and the rooms it might become.

Every good thing moves before it settles. Our 22 West 19th Street location has closed, and in the meantime, you’ll find ...
07/07/2026

Every good thing moves before it settles.

Our 22 West 19th Street location has closed, and in the meantime, you’ll find us at the STARK Carpet showroom - 979 Third Avenue, 11th Floor - where our pieces are very much at home.

This August, we open a new chapter at the New York Design Center, 200 Lexington Avenue, 2nd Floor.

Some things find their way to you slowly - the right collaboration, the right shore, the right light. Where white-sand b...
06/23/2026

Some things find their way to you slowly - the right collaboration, the right shore, the right light.

Where white-sand beach meets forested hillside, Raffles Sentosa Singapore asked for something that could live quietly inside that beauty, and not compete with it. Fort Street Studio - now part of the STARK family - worked alongside Yabu Pushelberg to produce custom hand-tufted rugs for more than sixty villas and presidential residences, among them a painterly reworking of Kite: fifteen colors painstakingly recharted over several weeks until the palette felt like it had always belonged there.

A new chapter. The same unhurried hand.

Celleste recasts this otherwise serene, art-filled New York dining room by local design duo with a new charge, delivere...
04/16/2026

Celleste recasts this otherwise serene, art-filled New York dining room by local design duo with a new charge, delivered through a dynamic composition in raised cut-pile silk.

Conceived by artist and Fort Street Studio cofounder through a freehand study, the motifs nod to cellular life in flux, suggesting the proliferation of trillions of units within a single system. The design advances through accumulation over repetition, which—together with its rich ruby hue—creates a sense of continuous motion suited to a place of daily gathering.

Consider what Celleste might set in motion at home via the link in our bio.

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