Antique rugs
July 17, 2026
In the showroom of Hüseyin Kaplan, in the Sultanahmet quarter of Istanbul beneath the minarets of the old city, there are more than five hundred carpets […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
