Opening Day, Summer Olympia Fair
Antique carpets, textiles and works of tribal art are very lightly represented at this year’s summer Olympia (5-15 June 2014).
News
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Turkmen Rug Gift for Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum
UK Oriental rug collector Simon Crosby has donated a group of seven ‘Ersari’ Turkmen carpets to the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
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Rippon Boswell’s Spring sale of Carpets & Textiles, Wiesbaden 31 May 2014
Highest expectations in Rippon Boswell’s Spring sale in Wiesbaden on Saturday 31 May 2014 rest on this large, colourful and highly collectable fragment from a ‘Bukhara’ carpet with multiple rows of niches (lot 96, estimate €65,000).
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HALI UK Tour 2014 – Limited places available
The HALI editorial team invite you to view our curated carpet tour around the UK.
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AOA Tribal Art Fair, New York
The annual AOA (Africa, Oceana and the Americas) Tribal Art Fair takes place 14 – 18 May 2014 on the Upper East Side, New York.
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Ned Long, 1927-2014
It is with great regret that we have heard of the passing of the well-respected and much-liked veteran Turkmen carpet collector and scholar E.B. (Ned) Long, in Akron, Ohio, on 2 May 2014, after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease. A scientist by training (like so many Turkmen rug enthusuasts) with a passion for the environment… Read more »
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Christie’s Carpets soar to $4million
Christie’s well-attended King Street sale of ‘Oriental Rugs and Carpets’ in London on Tuesday 8 April 2014 was a triumph for consignors and, a rare thing these days, a pleasure to attend.
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Decorative Textiles and Rugs at the Battersea Fair, May 2014
A photographic review of the ‘Textiles as Art’ foyer exhibit at the Spring Decorative Fair, curated by London esoteric textile dealer Molly Hogg using exhibitors’ textiles, plus assorted rugs and textiles shown on their stands by Hogg herself, Joshua Lumley, Pars, Stothert & Trice, Robert Barley, Kiki design, Lee Wright and others, including an unusual… Read more »
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Molly Hogg ‘Using Textiles as Art’ at Battersea Fair
The Spring edition of The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair takes place over the bank holiday weekend 29 April – 4 May 2014 in the giant marquee at Battersea Park, London. This will see 140 dealers from the UK and Europe unveiling their latest exciting finds. In addition, the selling display in the large foyer… Read more »
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R.I.P. Paul Nels (1922-2014)
It is with the greatest sadness that we report the passing over the Easter weekend of Paul Nels, the doyen of the London Oriental carpet trade, at the age of 92. Involved to the last, Paul was a great character, a true Old World gentleman and bon viveur, generous to a fault, fluent in a… Read more »
