1920s Rugs
July 10, 2026
The Dutch did not look abroad for the floors of their palaces. This is a small fact with large implications. When the courts of Europe sent […]
May 29, 2026
From the Rug & Kilim editorial and curatorial archive Our founder and principal Jahanshah Josh Nazmiyal has been in the carpet industry long enough to have […]
May 13, 2026
Every serious designer knows the moment. You walk into a room that is not yet finished; the furniture placed but provisional, the walls painted but unconvinced, […]
May 4, 2026
In April 2016, three rugs arrived at Christie’s King Street in London that had not been seen in public for over a century. They had not […]
April 29, 2026
There is a room at Hauser & Wirth Somerset; the gallery that occupies a converted farmhouse in the English countryside, where Pipilotti Rist installations have shared […]
April 15, 2026
Art, Architecture, Literature, and the Placement of Rare Works Across the World’s Most Refined Interiors The Room as an Act of Understanding At the highest level, […]
April 13, 2026
Design, at its highest level, has always preferred to appear untouched by politics. A room in the Hamptons. An apartment overlooking Central Park. A villa along […]
March 10, 2026
To speak of Ukrainian rugs and kilims is to speak of a culture where textiles were never merely decorative objects but expressions of identity, memory, and […]
March 5, 2026
By the late nineteenth century, the Persian carpet had become an essential component of the European interior. Not decorative. Structural. As Qajar Persia expanded trade relationships […]
