CLIENT ROOMS FEATURING ANTIQUE ferahan RUGS
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1. Intricately crafted 19th-Century allover pattern carpets provide luxurious enrichment to grand signature spaces
Enhanced by the inherent balance and refined understatement of an allover Ferahan carpet centerpiece, this expansive great hall of a European-inspired residence becomes the scene for fascinated aesthetic immersion. The rhythmic repetition of organic motifs within the exquisite 19th-century design creates the foundational structure by which symmetry in other aspects of the room, such as the soaring multistory windows and monolithic ceiling timbers, are more enjoyably appreciated. Note how the potent yet time-softened hues of the Persian art carpet suite resonates with every other inviting tone in the space, including the 17th-century garden paintings, embroidered fabrics, and warm hardwood paneling.

2. Rare Corridor-Sized Ferahan Rug Adds Luminous Comfort to Entryway of Traditional Omaha Home
This image is of an artistically exploratory 170-year-old Ferahan rug in a rarely found corridor size that graces the entryway of a grand traditional home near Omaha, Nebraska. The tawny-hued border immediately draws upon the rich tones of the wooden floors, stairway, and exquisite furnishings. A soothing, luminous cerulean field beckons one to leave the cares of the day behind upon entering this domestic sanctuary. Imaginative, larger-scale organic motifs add to the serenely engaging aesthetic of this piece that seems to have been created especially for this home, amplifying the sophisticated ambiance of its surroundings. Antique carpets have an uncanny way of seamlessly coalescing into a wide variety of decors. The depth and breadth of our inventory allow infinitely more possibilities than can be found elsewhere in the ever-shrinking antique rug market.
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3. Intricately crafted 19th-century allover pattern carpets provide luxurious enrichment to grand signature spaces
Enhanced by the inherent balance and refined understatement of an allover Veramin carpet centerpiece, this expansive great hall of a European-inspired residence becomes the scene for fascinated aesthetic immersion. The rhythmic repetition of organic motifs within the exquisite 19th-century design creates the foundational structure by which symmetry in other aspects of the room, such as the soaring multistory windows and monolithic ceiling timbers. Note how the potent yet time-softened hues of the entire Persian art carpet suite resonates with every other inviting tone in the space, including the 17th-century garden paintings, embroidered fabrics, and warm hardwood paneling.
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4. Consummate Persian Art Carpet Brings Unfathomable Richness And Depth To A Traditional Dining Room
The best antique art carpets create pairings that are far greater than the sum of their parts, uniting furniture, architectural details and other works of art in a way that uniquely enhances their overall aesthetic impact. For this reason, masterwork carpets, such as this 19th-century Ferahan Sarouk that graces a genteel dining room, are avidly desired by seasoned designers and homeowners. Though its weavers could not have anticipated this pairing, the 160-year-old carpet’s resonance with the chair’s delicately turned leg and ethereal pale green fabric achieves a balance of refinement that could likely never have been reached in any other way. The antique Ferahan tradition provides the essential foundation by which these great heights are reached: neither the incredible dexterity of its clear, profusely rendered natural forms nor the exquisite pastel and jewel-tone dyes can be found elsewhere, as dye masters capable of these long-lost techniques no longer exist.
(Featured in our Brochure, Vol. 28, No. 2.)
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5. Grand Antique Ferahan Sarouk Provides The Foundation for A Library’s Contemplative, Genteel Atmosphere
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6. 19th-Century Ferahan Sarouk Carpet Brings Focused Attention To Home Office
An exceptional 150-year-old Ferahan Sarouk carpet establishes a contemplative, erudite atmosphere within this high-rise home office. The expansive Persian room-size carpet glows with a nuanced patina through its exquisitely time-softened natural colors. This aged hues are perfectly complemented by the enhanced lustre of age seen in the inlaid, hand carved woods of the 18th-century French antique desk. Alongside this natural, elevated dialogue between these two one-of-a-kind art pieces, the carpet’s intricate botanical patterning adds its own conversation between compositional elements. Note how each part of field, stunning ivory corner pieces and majestic border explore creative variations on a common theme. Finally, the carpet’s diffuse medallion effortlessly centers the room’s activity in a structured, but unobtrusive way. Despite the grand scale of the potent medallion design, this masterful centerpiece is entirely balanced, allowing each of the room’s furnishings to be appreciated in turn.
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7. A Duo of Outstanding Antique Ferahan Sarouk Carpets Unify A Gracious Old World Living Room
The open, expansive plan of a gracious living room is completed by the inclusion of two exceptional antique Ferahan Sarouk carpets. The duo’s magnetic artistry unites the spacious entertaining area into a cohesive series of intensely inviting, human scaled spaces. The carpets deftly create distinct conversational zones, thanks to exquisite botanical tracery and dynamic color interactions that are the natural result of inspired, virtuoso weavers in complete command of their medium. Profoundly saturated indigo medallions and borders exert tremendous compositional weight in the high-ceilinged space, elegantly softened and enriched by skillful juxtaposition of warm pomegranate, sapphire blue and soft ivory. These well-selected colors and scrolling botanical forms bring out the delicate, organic contours that have informed so many of the room’s other objets d’art. Note how an instant harmony is established between porcelain vases, tasteful brocade fabrics, vibrant cut flowers, and even the graceful curve of the polished grand piano! Through their harmonious interplay of color and natural light, the two 19th-century art carpets are intimately linked with the pair of Post-Impressionist paintings, where scenes of Southern France are concerned with precisely the same focus.
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8. 19th-Century Ferahan Infuses Intensely Organic Aesthetic Into An Airy Modern Interior
The astounding creativity of this rare double-medallion High-Collectible Ferahan carpet creates a profoundly enriching experience in this elegant custom modern home, where the focus is on enrapturing views both within and without. The architect’s unconventional fenestration choices provide an abundance of sunlight, allowing the incredibly luminous, naturally brewed dyes to radiate and literally fill the space. On full display, this 160-year-old Persian town carpet’s constant abrash (chromatic striation) and spontaneous hand-drawn motifs seems to enjoy the artistic camaraderie with the low Italian sofas, Calia wingback chairs and mid-century Vladimir Kagan table. Just as the homeowner has trained his Oberwerk binocular telescope on a favorite spot for hawks nesting outside his window, he found the perfect carpet to provide stirring inspiration in his living room.

9. 150-year-old Ferahan Sarouk Infuses Intensely Organic Aesthetic Into An Airy Modern Interior
The astounding, naturally inspired creativity of this extremely rare double-medallion Ferahan carpet creates a profoundly enriching experience in this elegant custom modern home on the California countryside, where the focus is on enrapturing views both within and without. The architect’s unconventional fenestration choices provide an abundance of sunlight, allowing the antique rug’s harmonious, naturally brewed dyes of watermelon, parchment, sapphire blue and celadon to radiate and literally fill the space. Low leather sofa, updated wingback chairs and glass Noguchi table present the art-level weaving entirely without distraction, magically intensifying the encounter from all vantages within the room.

10. Invigorating Color of 19th-Century Bakshaish Tree of Life Masterfully Enriches Extended Entertaining Spaces
Illuminated by the extraordinary color in which this carpet excels, a spectacular antique Bakshaish becomes the animating energy at the heart of this quietly elegant entertaining space. The cool, extremely light-toned ground—so uncommon and transformative in antique Bakshaish pieces—profoundly resonates with every color and texture in the well-appointed room, including fabrics, polished marble, and supple leather. There is an absolutely astounding variety of individual, creatively imagined blossoms within the prized Tree of Life format, contributing striking plum, crimson, garnet, celadon and stirring aquamarine accents that make the arboreal environment within the rug at least as inviting as the sunlit garden outside. As in so many interiors where separate seating areas are present, note how the Bakshaish carpet creates an immediately harmonious dialogue with the neighboring Ferahan carpet before the hearth, linking these nearby spaces in an entrancing, endlessly fascinating way.

11. World Class 19th-Century Ferahan Sarouk Rugs Contribute Individual Nuances To Curated Collection of Art and Antique Carpets
Building a home collection of high level rugs brings a variety of significant benefits: daily pleasure, connoisseurship and art investment, as well as diversification into precious tangible assets. Such is certainly the case with this longtime collector family, who have enthusiastically assembled a selection of unique area and room-size 19th-century Ferahan carpets. Each is spectacular in its own right, particularly for aficionados who understand the singular artistic departures each piece represents. Through skillfully planned placement beside outstanding works of painting, photography and sculpture, the cumulative effect of the art rugs is immersive, enrapturing and completely one-of-a-kind. Savvy connoisseurs have long realized the enormous potential offered by the interplay between architecture, décor and appropriately selected rugs to create a unified statement.
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12. Opulent Paneled Office Achieves Continental Refinement With Suite of Antique Ferahan Sarouk and Mahajiran Carpets
An outstanding 19th century Ferahan Sarouk area size rug provides the essential foundation for the productive, contemplative environment of this highly cultured European-inspired home office, bringing a sense of subtlety of line and hue that sets the tone for the entire space. In addition to the virtuoso lobed medallion that floats within the shield-shaped terracotta reserve, the space is powerfully affected by the bright ivory corner pieces of the carpet, quietly framing both the composition and the room it inhabits. Gilt inlay on the antique desk and framed abstract lithograph resonate with the intricate botanical vinery that abounds in the Ferahan and the allover Mahajiran in the adjoining space. The continuity between both pieces establishes a fluid connection within these rooms, encouraging an expansive atmosphere for the homeowner to enjoy throughout his daily activities.
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13. High-Collectible Persian Ferahan Sarouk Carpet In Foyer Is Ideal Introduction To Art-filled Connoisseur’s Home
A superb Ferahan Sarouk carpet placed in the foyer warmly welcomes guests as the ideal beginning to an enthralling environment of expertly curated art, antiques and singular art carpets. At the top of its class in both level of artistry and craftsmanship, this 170-year-old Persian Town carpet offers the many inspired nuances that touch the collector’s heart. Many artistic decisions and a honed craftsmanship contribute to the allure of this piece, such as its rare ivory field with graceful silhouetted vinery, the interplay of the russet and marine blue tonalities, and it’s inspired, original border design. The consummately luxurious quality of its luminous wool is instantly apparent in this well-lit foyer, its time-matured patina glowing intensely in both at night and under natural light.
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14. Pairing Of Connoisseur-Caliber 19th-Century Rugs Integrates Spacious Great Room In Contemporary Desert Home
The deeply personal hand-crafted artistry of an outstanding Ferahan Sarouk rug (foreground) and Bakshaish Camelhair carpet (background) is completely transformative in this spacious, high-ceilinged desert home, bringing an easy livability to this contemporary space. The architecture’s clean, minimalistic lines and gentle curves provide the ideal foil by which each of these two antique rugs reveals a breathtaking profusion of one-of-a-kind botanical flourishes, with each organically inspired motif drawn individually. The floor-to-ceiling windows allow instant visual access to the weather-sculpted borders and atmospheric natural light outside the home, establishing strong connections with the unique patina and effortlessly harmonious natural dyes of the antique rugs themselves. Continually changing flourishes of motif and warm sand, terra cotta and sky blue hues in these connoisseur-quality 19th-century carpets promises years of contemplative viewing, evolving with each change of season or subtly shifting angle of sunlight.
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15. Exceptional Ferahan Sarouk Carpet Illuminates Lake House Master Sitting Area With Transformative, One-of-a-kind Artistry
An extraordinary burnished gold medallion becomes the singular centerpiece for this High-Collectible, mid-19th century Ferahan Sarouk carpet, a natural focal point both of the rug’s inspired artistry and for the bedroom conversation area that surrounds it. The owners of this lakeside family compound will certainly appreciate the manner in which the antique carpet’s rhythmic waves of nuanced abrash color striation resonate with the waterfront setting beyond, while elaborate window treatments reference the rug’s potent terra cotta and sapphire blue tones. This virtuoso antique Persian rug will become even more pleasurable when viewed by firelight from the granite and carved elm hearth, allowing its lanolin-rich wool to glow with great intensity.
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16. A Duo of Outstanding Antique Ferahan Sarouk Carpets Unify A Gracious Old World Living Room
The open, expansive plan of a gracious living room is completed by the inclusion of two exceptional antique Ferahan Sarouk carpets. The duo’s magnetic artistry unites the spacious entertaining area into a cohesive series of intensely inviting, human scaled spaces. The carpets deftly create distinct conversational zones, thanks to exquisite botanical tracery and dynamic color interactions that are the natural result of inspired, virtuoso weavers in complete command of their medium. Profoundly saturated indigo medallions and borders exert tremendous compositional weight in the high-ceilinged space, elegantly softened and enriched by skillful juxtaposition of warm pomegranate, sapphire blue and soft ivory. These well-selected colors and scrolling botanical forms bring out the delicate, organic contours that have informed so many of the room’s other objets d’art. Note how an instant harmony is established between porcelain vases, tasteful brocade fabrics, vibrant cut flowers, and even the graceful curve of the polished grand piano! Through their harmonious interplay of color and natural light, the two 19th century art carpets are intimately linked with the pair of Post-Impressionist paintings, where scenes of Southern France are concerned with precisely the same focus.
Click Here to see our antique Ferahan Sarouk rugs now available.

17. Consummate Persian Art Carpet Brings Unfathomable Richness And Depth To A Traditional Dining Room
Featured in our Brochure, Vol. 28, No. 2. The best antique art carpets create pairings that are far greater than the sum of their parts, uniting furniture, architectural details and other works of art in a way that uniquely enhances their overall aesthetic impact. For this reason, masterwork carpets, such as this 19th century Ferahan Sarouk that graces a genteel dining room, are avidly desired by seasoned designers and homeowners. Though its weavers could not have anticipated this pairing, the 160-year-old carpet’s resonance with the chair’s delicately turned leg and ethereal pale green fabric achieves a balance of refinement that could likely never have been reached in any other way. The antique Ferahan tradition provides the essential foundation by which these great heights are reached: neither the incredible dexterity of its clear, profusely rendered natural forms nor the exquisite pastel and jewel-tone dyes can be found elsewhere, as dye masters capable of these long-lost techniques no longer exist.
Click Here to see our antique Ferahan Sarouk rugs now available.

18. 19th-Century Ferahan Sarouk Carpet Brings Focused Attention To Home Office
An exceptional 150-year-old Ferahan Sarouk carpet establishes a contemplative, erudite atmosphere within this high-rise home office. The expansive Persian room-size rugs glows with a nuanced patina through its exquisitely time-softened natural colors. This aged hues are perfectly complemented by the enhanced lustre of age seen in the inlaid, hand carved woods of the 18th-century French antique desk. Alongside this natural, elevated dialogue between these two one-of-a-kind art pieces, the Persian carpet’s intricate botanical patterning adds its own conversation between compositional elements. Note how each part of field, stunning ivory corner pieces and majestic border explore creative variations on a common theme. Finally, the carpet’s diffuse medallion effortlessly centers the room’s activity in a structured, but unobtrusive way. Despite the grand scale of the potent medallion design, this masterful centerpiece is entirely balanced, allowing each of the room’s furnishings to be appreciated in turn.
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19. Collectors Showcase a Gem from their Collection in this Tuscan-inspired Living Room, an Extremely Rare Early 19th-Century Persian Rug from the Esteemed Ferahan Town Tradition
A top-tier nearly 200-year old Persian Ferahan carpet was chosen for the main conversation area in this connoisseur couple’s living room where its sublime colors and inspired drawing, especially in the borders, were on view. This captivating early 19th-century Persian Town Carpet’s profusion of guava, rose, apricot and sand tones softly harmonizes with the elegant layered color palette of the fabric, wall, and window treatments. Even the luxurious texture and sheen of the fabrics are mirrored by the antique Ferahan rug’s luminous, lanolin-rich wool. These clients are strategically displaying three specimen carpets along the length of the space, each oriented to cover a portion of the width of the room.
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20. A Connoisseur Level Antique Persian Ferahan Sarouk Carpet in the Seating Area of an Elegant Home Office Inspires Contemplation and Creativity
This early, spacious town carpet with its riveting medallion and softly glowing field provides a center point for all the activities of a chief executive’s personal home office. One of the gems of this whole home collection of carpets, it sits comfortably within the eclectic furnishings, offering the refreshing distraction of watching its colors respond to the changing sunlight throughout the day. The understated interior design includes paired fauteuil armchairs with carved botanical motifs that recall the spacious, stylized vinery pattern that fills the 19th-century Ferahan’s grand borders and surrounds its one-of-a-kind medallion.
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21. Grand Antique Ferahan Sarouk Provides The Foundation for A Library’s Contemplative, Genteel Atmosphere

22. A Quintet of Unique Area Size Antique Rugs Each Adds their Own Note to an Eclectic Music Room
FEATURED IN OUR NEW BROCHURE, Vol. 29, No. 1. The hallway niche surrounding this grand piano becomes an inviting, intimate destination within the home thanks to the addition of five 19th century Oriental art rugs. The juxtaposition of the two 3×5 highly collectible Ferahan rugs (foreground) with a South Persian tribal Khamseh rug (under piano), a piece from the Caucasus Mountains (hall, left) and an early Bakshaish runner (border barely shows in upper right) is perfect for this eclectic atmosphere of art appreciation, as they call the viewer to enjoy each performance in turn. Of course, the voices of the antique Oriental rug weavers also work as a brilliant harmony, their rare hues bringing together the diffuse light of a Tiffany stained glass light box, Tiffany lamps and atmospheric oil paintings.

23. A Nearly Two Centuries-old Ivory Ground Feraghan Rug Makes a Striking Introduction to the Rare Room Size Carpet Beyond It.
Clients often enjoy moving free standing small rugs like this to different places in the house or even to their other residences, thereby increasing their enjoyment of their art carpets’ many fine attributes. This eminent collector has honed an eye for stellar examples of Persian city, town, village, and Caucasian tribal rugs, and displays top-tier pieces to awe-inspiring effect throughout his homes.

24. Wonderfully Compatible Art-level Antique Persian Rugs Naturally Unify This Majestic Room and Complete the Sense of Grandeur
FEATURED IN OUR NEW BROCHURE, Vol. 29, No. 1. This image is from a whole home project in a massive lakeside family compound in the High Sierras. Here, each of the two 9×12 Feraghan Sarouk rugs and and a 11×18 antique Persian Veramin carpets in the foreground and 12×19 antique Sultanabad in the background its own intimate conversation area. Yet together these four Oriental carpets harmonize the lofty carved woodwork and sensitively upholstered furnishings through the commonality of their own rich colors and pattern language. The net effect is uplifting.

25. The Ferahan Sarouk on the Wall and the Laver Kirman Antique Carpet on the Floor Heighten Each Other’s Charm
FEATURED IN OUR NEW BROCHURE, Vol. 29, No. 1. More and more of our clients are discovering the splendor of displaying art-level rugs on their walls, where the myriad nuances of color and design are at eye level. In this exquisite setting, a Ferahan Sarouk on the wall and a Laver Kirman on the floor enhance each other’s beauty.
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26. 19th-Century Persian Village Carpets Are Magnificent in this Seaside Arts & Crafts Home
These clients chose an extensive collection of late 19th-century Persian village carpets to adorn the floors throughout their magnificent oceanside Arts & Crafts home. An open floor plan allows the delightful viewing of up to six rugs at one time. In the foreground is a Sultanabad and both carpets in the background are Ferahans.

27. 19th-Century Persian Carpet as Centerpiece of Great Room in Custom Home
A highly refined Ferahan Sarouk antique carpet graces this well-appointed great room. The swirling, fluid botanical vinery of this 19th-century Persian village rug adds an effective organic counterpoint to the straight lines of beams and squared wooden paneling. The jade green, soft ivory and warm terra cotta of this naturally dyed 150-year-old Oriental carpet instantly resonate with the natural materials in the room, such as the cut glass chandelier and lamps, distressed leather and unpainted hardwoods.
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