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72 Positively LOOM-INOUS F or the 20th birthday of London- based The Rug Company, a proper celebration means much more than beautiful textiles. Not only has the rug collective asked five of its best-selling designers to create new rug designs, but in an artistic addition, photographer Mary McCartney — daughter of Sir Paul McCartney and the late photographer Linda McCartney, and sister to fashion designer Stella McCartney — was tapped to capture portraits of a handful of the designers at work in their studios. There's much to see. Sir Paul Smith, the idiosyncratic fashion designer knighted by the queen in 2000, has fashioned a rug that plays off his trademark multicolored stripes (from $3,480). The Rug Company's co-founder, Suzanne Sharp, calls on her Mediterranean childhood for the patterns in her Bonavita rug (from $2,376). Rebel fashion designer Vivienne Westwood created an oversized Highland tartan design (from $3,096), while interior designer Kelly Wearstler translates her hand-painted brushstrokes into a minimalist Channels design (from $3,864). For Alexander McQueen, the British fashion house's creative director Sarah Burton composed a moody floral Chiaroscuro, inspired by 17th-century Dutch still lifes. Limited edition of 40, from $9,456, at The Rug Company, therugcompany.com. Rebecca Sherman W aterworks fixtures and fittings in a kitchen or bath instantly elevate a functional space into a luxurious one. After nearly four decades in business, the Connecticut-based company is expanding its bath presence with more than 140 new products, including two new fittings collections. Since its inception, Waterworks has reinterpreted historical design elements into classical and functional fixtures. The latest, Dash and Regulator, "draw on pure mechanical elements from the past, edited into something more polished, more sophisticated," says Peter Sallick, CEO and creative director. Regulator plays with the concept of industrial boiler- room controls, while Dash evokes the 1930s obsession with pared-down shapes and soft curves. At waterworks.com. Anne Lee Phillips Bring On the WATERWORKS ART + DECORATION As the famed Rug Company celebrates 20 years, photographer Mary McCartney — yes, of those McCartneys — trains her lens on some of the world's best designers. Kelly Wearstler, Channels rug Suzanne Sharp, Bonavita rug Vivienne Westwood, Highland tartan rug Sir Paul Smith, Stripes rug Waterworks new Regulator collection Waterworks' Regulator, Sten, and Architectonics collections Alexander McQueen's Chiaroscuro rug collection Waterworks' Regulator, Voltaire, and Grove Brickworks collections