Antique Persian rugs
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 […]
April 28, 2026
How U.S.–Iran Tensions Are Reshaping the World of Fine Rugs: From Safavid Courts to Sanction Regimes
There is a room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where a sixteenth-century Persian carpet stops people mid-stride. Because something in the […]
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 […]
April 2, 2026
There is a particular kind of interior; rare, deliberate, and intellectually composed, where a rug does not decorate, but makes it art in itself. A residence […]
March 27, 2026
There are rooms – rare, disciplined rooms, where nothing is accidental. A salon overlooking Lake Como, where a 19th-century Aubusson anchors parquet floors beneath frescoed ceilings. […]
March 16, 2026
There is a quiet misconception in contemporary interiors: that rugs belong to style categories, that they serve periods, that they follow trends. At Rug & Kilim, […]
March 12, 2026
In a quietly elegant London dining room, a vintage Bessarabian Kilim unfolds beneath the table like an unexpected conversation. Its geometry—subtle yet assertive—draws the eye before […]
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 […]
