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Parsua Contemporary Rugs

Parsua's founders, Dominique Chevalier and Ali Bayat, are antiques dealers specialising in antique tapestries and rugs. Nowadays it can be difficult to find an antique rug that corresponds perfectly to what one is looking for. The carpet is either too small, too wide, too long, too red, too blue or too expensive.

The Parsua concept is to offer rugs of very high quality - Persian carpets as they used to be made - but in a broad range of designs and with the possibility of ordering them to measure, in the desired colourway: this is haute couture in the rug and carpet world.

Parsua rugs are principally inspired by an antique decorative repertoire (16th-century Ottoman textiles, revisited Persian designs, 18th-century French motifs, 19th-century British Arts and Crafts…), but there is also a line of rugs with ethnic, modern or contemporary designs. The collection today comprises around 100 models.

Parsua rugs are knotted by hand in Iran, a country which offers the best resources in this field: unequalled ancestral know-how, wool of supreme quality.

Characteristics of Parsua rugs:
• Cotton warp, cotton and wool weft, wool pile
• Hand-spun wool
• Natural dyes
• Natural patina produced by exposure to the sun
• No children under 14 work in the workshops
• Products bear the CB (Chevalier-Bayat) monogram
• Deadlines for commissions: between 6 and 10 months depending on dimensions