Handwoven Kilims
June 29, 2026
The most sophisticated rooms in America are being furnished, increasingly, with an object its makers never intended to sell. The Andean frazada, a handwoven kilim produced […]
June 1, 2026
The real spatial dimension does not get painted, it gets woven. Begin with hanging a piece such as Signed Vintage Lia Cook Tapestry slightly off-center on […]
May 19, 2026
In the winter of 1883, William Morris stood before a room full of wool merchants, manufacturers, and assorted Victorian worthies in a lecture hall in Birmingham […]
May 15, 2026
In the final years of the sixteenth century, the treasury of France was hemorrhaging. Not to war alone though there had been enough of that but […]
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 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 24, 2026
Living, Collecting, and Designing at the Highest Level There are interiors that impress, and there are interiors that endure. The latter; quietly commanding, intellectually composed, are […]
February 19, 2026
Styling Tips These pieces absolutely thrive in contemporary interiors: – Medallion carpets anchor large rooms. Floral patterns soften transitional designs – Kilim styles suit minimalist and […]
February 13, 2026
Tapestry is the oldest form of spatial storytelling. Before wallpaper became political, before murals were democratized, before art was framed, taxed, traded, or speculated upon, power […]
