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Festival Rug

February 14, 2011

This Festival rug by Mini Moderns has been designed to celebrate the 60 year anniversary of the Festival of Britain. The event opened on the South Bank in London in May 1951 with the aim of giving Britons a feeling of recovery and progress and to promote better-quality design in the rebuilding of British towns […]

This Festival rug by Mini Moderns has been designed to celebrate the 60 year anniversary of the Festival of Britain. The event opened on the South Bank in London in May 1951 with the aim of giving Britons a feeling of recovery and progress and to promote better-quality design in the rebuilding of British towns and cities following the war.

Festival rug by Mini Moderns

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