This autumn Japanese Boro patchwork robes and textiles are seen to be taking centre stage in Portugal. Two exhibitions focussing on Japanese culture and design are showing at the Museu do Design e da Moda (MUDE), Lisbon under the title RAW JAPAN, 10 October to 8 February 2015.
As part of its cultural programme for the centenary of the First World War, MART is exhibiting 50 war rugs from Afghanistan at the Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero, Rovereto.
Jose Luis Herrero, owner of Spanish textile gallery, Estudio H is holding an exhibition of ’13 Textiles for The Contemporary Home’ at Galeria espacioBRUT, Madrid, 18 October – 12 November 2014. Herrero’s great passion for tribal textile art has driven him to present objects in decontextualised, contemporary settings that highlight and accentuate their inherent beauty…. Read more »
Lot 160, a large section of a historic Caucasian Dragon carpet fetched a very high price for it’s type at Sotheby’s sale of ‘Important English and European Decorative Arts’ this week. Selling at $149,000 against an estimate of $30-50,000 on 22 October in New York.
This weekend, 24 – 26 October the annual Volkmann-Treffen 2014 will take place in Berlin. This year the topic is tents, inspired by the Türckische Cammer in Dresden.
This weekend, 23–26 October 2014, sees twenty dealers from the Netherlands and abroad gather in the cloisters of De Duif Church on the Prinsengracht for Tribal Art Fair Amsterdam 2014.
In the world of antique rugs and textile art, the events of the past week in San Francisco may have heralded the dawn of a new reality, and not an unpleasant or perilous one at all. With the slow registration of dealers in attendance at ARTS, there were fears for the future of the show… Read more »
Click here for a selection of images from the exhibition.
The rugs and textiles speak for themselves at ARTS, the annual multi-dealer show at the Capri Motel in San Francisco’s Marina District (the show ends today, Sunday 19th October). Each year more than 40 American and international dealers travel here in order to rent rooms at the 3-story motel, hanging their rugs on the walls or piling them… Read more »
