Articles, reports & dispatches.
Long-form scholarship and short news from the HALI editorial desk — published continuously between the four print quarterlies.
Ben Fernandes RIP
It is with great sadness that HALI has learned that the Far East’s most important and enthusiastic collector of antique tribal and village rugs, Ben Fernandes, died in Singapore on 25 January 2016 at the age of 82, following a long illness. Ben’s Mountain Looms private…
SF Tribal & Textile Art Show at 30
The San Francisco Tribal & Textile Arts Show celebrates its 30th Anniversary at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center, from 18-21 February 2016.
Daniel Shaffer · 2 min
Alice de Rothschild’s Vase Carpet Trio at Christie's
For Christie’s next major London carpet sale at King Street on 19 April 2016, head of department Louise Broadhurst has secured the consignment by ‘A Nobleman’ of three previously unknown and unpublished Safavid ‘vase-technique’ carpets.
Daniel Shaffer · 4 min
The Bernheimer Chair Sold at Sotheby’s, London
Consul Otto Bernheimer’s famous chair , an Italian Renaissance-style walnut armchair upholstered with parts of a 16th-century small-pattern Holbein carpet, sold in Sotheby’s London’s evening sale on 24 November 2015, lot 13, for £100,000 ($151,460), at the top of its estimate…
Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections, Sotheby’s New York, 1 October 2015
SNY’s high-end auction of 'Carpets and Textiles from Distinguished Collections' on 1 October yielded a total of $2,236,000.
