Roots in the Great Carpet Bazaars of Persia
The Persian Knot Gallery is the culmination of more than a century of family devotion to the art of the handwoven carpet. The roots of the gallery trace back to the great Carpet Bazaars of Persia, where our founder’s family built a legacy across generations. His father spent over 50 years scouring Persia for the finest vintage carpets — sourcing from the great artisan workshop cities of Tabriz, Isfahan, Nain, Qum, and Kashan. Growing up apprenticing alongside him, the love of fine carpets was instilled in our founder before he had words for it.
The seeds of today’s collection are those very rugs from his father’s personal holdings: exquisite workshop pieces produced before 1970, now considered among the finest vintage carpets in existence. To these our founder has added 30 years of his own passionate collecting — antique village and tribal rugs from the late 18th through early 20th centuries, each one a genuine work of art selected for its uniqueness, rarity, and beauty.
As others might have a passion for horses or a vintage car collection, fine antique carpets have been our founder’s lifelong avocation — pursued in parallel with a career in academia and the corporate world, in R&D, strategic planning, and business development across global markets.
Through decades of international travel, whenever a few hours opened up, our founder would seek out the ancient bazaars, the hidden workshops, the private estates. Like Marco Polo navigating the Silk Road, always searching for the extraordinary piece that deserved to be found, preserved, and shared.
Pieces in the collection have been sourced from estates and private collections across the United States, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia — dating back to the late 1700s. Among the highlights: a French Aubusson carpet acquired from Hillwood Estate in Washington D.C., formerly the home of Marjorie Merriweather Post, founder of General Foods Corporation.