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Austrian Auction Company's first auction of antique rugs in 2016 is now available online.

The top lot of Sotheby’s London recent (19 April 2016) Orientalist sale features a northwest Persian long rug.
Malin Lonnberg · 1 min
An extract from an exhibition review by Alan Kennedy of 'Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art' at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 12 December 2015 - 17 April 2017.
Rachel Meek · 2 min
' An Exemplary Decorative Antique and Vintage Carpet Collection by Nazmiyal ' on 4 April 2016 was the first carpet auction of any substance at Bonhams in New York in our memory. The selection was broad, with pile and flatwoven carpets both Oriental and European in origin and…

The Sydney Opera House have unveiled a bold tapestry by Le Corbusier, purpose designed for the building in 1960.

LARTA, the London specialist event for period rugs, carpets, tapestries and textiles, returns for the fifth year to The Showroom in Penfold Street.