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The weird and wonderful world of hotel carpets

Sophie Haigney on the weird and wonderful world of hotel carpets

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

11 July 2020

9:00 AM

Consider the carpet. In all likelihood, you usually don’t. It’s simply something beneath your feet, soft or scratchy, bright or beige, thick or thin. But in a new book, Bill Young asks you to pause and really look at a particular genre of floor-padding: the carpets in the hotels around the world.

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Hotel Carpets by Bill Young is published by Hoxton Mini Press.

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