They start at $58 for a two-by-three-foot carpet.
The Almaty art museum has fine examples of contemporary Kazakh art, and the carpet sellers on the ground floor sell Kazakh rugs (a 4-by-10-foot carpet runs about 73,000 tenge, or $594, at 125 tenge to the dollar).
Each replacement flat is a maximum of 270 square feet "carpet area".
The repair crew tore out yards of wallboard, fixed yawning holes in the roof, had a new 12,000-square-foot carpet installed, slapped on a fresh coat of paint and hung a huge 30-foot sign out front reading "Welcome home, we are open for business".
RIGHT now, the two 300-square-foot carpeted trading pits are used in rapid-fire 90-minute sessions by traders buying and selling futures and options on coffee and all the other commodities.
Tufenkian Artisan Carpets is discounting one-of-a-kind sample 2-foot by 3-foot carpets from the company's Core Tibetan, Pure Textures and Designers Reservee collections, through Dec. 21 (a wool hand-knotted Peacock rug, usually $1,050, is $150), 919 Third Avenue (55th Street), (212) 475-2475, tufenkiancarpets.com.com
After a rocky start -- her company nearly went bankrupt in 1993 -- she found her niche, selling these lush yet minimalist carpets to interior designers and architects who didn't balk at 8-by-10-foot carpets for $5,000 to $20,000.
Carpeted floor is not suitable for measuring your foot because carpet will work in a pinch.
On the cover -- Matthew Williamson, the British fashion designer, blew up a Navajo rug detail for the 6-foot-by-9-foot Tribe carpet; $4,320 at the Rug Company, (212) 274-0444 or therugcompany.info.info
Outdoors in the museum courtyard is Roy Staab's "River Surface," a large 30-foot by 30-foot undulating carpet made of bundles of reeds gathered along the Hudson supported by sticks of various heights.
