Handmade Area Rug Gallery and Designer Carpeting Showroom on the East Side of Providence
Rustigian Rugs has vast selections of handmade area rugs from Pakistan, India, Iran and Turkey as well as designer sisal, wall to wall carpeting and custom specified area rugs to appeal to every taste and budget. Our inventory of handmade rugs range in style from the intricacy of a silk and wool Persian rug to the textural feast of a variegated, single-color Tibetan carpet. Whatever your style, Rustigian Rugs will help get your project off to a beautiful start or help you put the perfect finishing touches on your new room. With 86 years of experience, an expansive area rug and wall-to-wall carpet showroom and a friendly and knowledgable staff, we invite you to visit us because, quite simply, we know rugs.
His name is Rusty. That's what everybody calls him. So he stayed Rusty for the entirety of our relationship. Rusty is my father. My father started the business in 1930, which is approximately two decades before I emerged onto the scene. Well, he quit law school because of the depression. So I think it was a matter of financial necessity at that point. He had worked s I believe they included New Orleans and New York. So he wasn't a complete newcomer to the business. And I guess under the circ The business started in my house where I still live. And the large showroom was in the garage. I bought the building that we're in now in August of 81 with the expressed intention of making it the drugstore with greater visibility. At the time my father died, they didn't really seem to be a downside to buying the property. If the drugstore didn't work, then I had a piece of property to sell. I never really had a vision for what it was going to look I really didn't. In some way shape or form thought if I named the business after my father that it would take care of me. That'simple. The decade of the 80s was a very difficult one in which to start a business. The beginning of the decade, the interest rates were phenomenally high. It was never easy until almost 2000 and after. Rhode Island is not a prime retail location. And in part that's because it'so proximate to New York and Boston. Because I came to the drug business from a n It's a little drier but nonetheless interesting. One day I just set my mind to try to figure out why certain processes were taking too long. And I literally went over and stood and watched my cleaning operation for a day, walked around, looked at things. And I realized how counterproductive the traffic flow was. Constructing a carpet cart to drag things across the room would be so much better and so much better from a work-ness comp point of view, from a tiredness point of view, from an efficiency point of view. So that one day I spent over there really made a huge difference, huge difference. The business right now is flourishing in large part because we have finally established a very, very firm basis of business with interior designers and we've got a strong retail presence for the rest of our products. So we stand with feet in both worlds and it's working. There is a special touch necessary to keep that kind of vol
