How to read a Persian carpet.
A short field guide to the medallions, borders and weaver's signatures that turn a rug into a record of place and time.
ReadNotes on carpets, architecture, food, and the quiet culture of a small Persian house.
A short field guide to the medallions, borders and weaver's signatures that turn a rug into a record of place and time.
ReadWhy the centre of the Persian house is empty, and how that emptiness has, for a thousand years, organised the rest.
ReadNotes from our kitchen on the strange, slow ceremony that begins every Persian afternoon at four.
ReadThe garmābeh has been a Persian institution for centuries. We trace its rituals — and explain the order of our 90-minute experience.
ReadA conversation with our master weaver in Bijar — on patience, blindness, and the carpet that refused to leave her loom.
ReadFrom kashk-e bademjan to pomegranate fesenjan — the dishes we serve to first-time guests, and why.
ReadStories from the house at the change of each season. No special offers, no urgency.
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