October 8th, 2008
CALGARY, AB: Local family-owned business, House of Persian Rugs, today marks 40 years of bringing the world’s finest, authentic, hand-knotted Persian and Oriental carpets to the people of Calgary.
“For four decades now, my family’s enduring passion has been to travel to the furthest reaches of the globe in search of the most skilled weavers and finest hand-knotted Persian and Oriental carpets. This year, we pay homage to our humble beginnings forty years ago”, says Abbas Keshmiri, owner and President of House of Persian Rugs.
House of Persian Rugs is the life’s work of Calgary’s Keshmiri family. The company was founded by the late Ali Keshmiri in 1968, shortly after immigrating with his family to Canada from his native Iran. He brought with him a passion for the beautiful carpets of his homeland. His first shipment was a mere six carpets, which he sold in a month. Eventually, Ali moved the business out of his home and into larger and larger stores, as Calgary and the rest of Canada fell in love with the beauty and tradition of hand-knotted carpets.
Today, with roughly 5,000 traditional, transitional and contemporary rugs designs in its collection, the company has grown to become one of Canada’s largest suppliers of authentic, hand-knotted Persian and Oriental carpets. The company is now managed by son Abbas, who continues to run the family business as owner and president, and still makes regular trips to Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Nepal, China, India, Tibet and Pakistan to source the rugs directly from the weavers.
The company is celebrating their 40th anniversary with a special event tonight at Calgary’s Artists of the World art gallery as a way to show appreciation to their valued customers and interior design partners. The event will feature Persian cuisine, musicians, an exclusive anniversary collection of carpets, and a live carpet weaving demonstration by their master weaver. The gallery was chosen as the ideal setting to showcase the rugs as unique, one-of-a-kind works of art, as well as provide attendees with ample style and design inspiration.
“We’ve been fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to share our love and knowledge of the centuries-old tradition of carpet weaving with the people of Calgary for the past four decades. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank our friends, valued customers and design partners for not just their business over the years, but also their friendship. We eagerly look forward to the next forty years.”
For more information about the House of Persian Rugs story, please visit: www.houseofpersianrugs.com.
For more information, or to set up an interview, please contact:
Richard Truscott, Venture Communications
Ph: 403-237-2388 ext 243, email: truscott@openminds.ca
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