Everything You Want to Know about Vintage Rugs | Interview with Gady Our Rug Expert

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Design, Visual Arts, Arts

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Today we talk to our special guest Gady Yesil, the owner and creator of Orientalist Home, where they bring more than 25 years of passion and experience in fine rugs and textiles. They travel around the world, collecting exotic, traditional, and modern handmade pieces and bring to the market the latest designs and color trends. We’re going to discuss vintage rugs and all things rugs, such as hand knotted rugs, different materials, why rugs are so valuable, what makes them last longer, and lots of wonderful questions we ask from a lot of our listeners and even questions we have for Gady as well. About Gady 2:17How to clean a rug 5:09Best climate for rugs 10:53Hierarchy of rugs and shopping online 13:21What Gady looks for 16:30The weaving process 21:32What size he most commonly sells 29:41What he has in his home 33:01Defining luxury 35:05“They sleep on the rugs at night, so the snake doesn’t like the feeling of that goat hair because it’s itchy. They use goat hair as a binding so the snake doesn’t go over the carpet. You see how smart they are? It’s unbelievable. They found that technique and they protect themselves.” 25:[email protected] https://orientalisthome.com/https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/https://alicelanehome.com/https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHomehttps://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecityNews Letter:https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.
0:22.3	This time of year we're all ready for a little home refresh, a new rug, a statement piece,
0:27.6	something new to infuse some sparkle or some style. We want to help you welcome spring into your home.
0:33.3	One of our biggest sales of the year is coming up and we call it our very best sale because it is.
0:38.6	Everything is 20% off for two weeks. It's a great time to get a discount on that special accessory you've had your eye on
0:45.6	or a larger piece that you've chosen with our home furnishings design team or our new customer favorite, the Odette Stepstool.
0:53.2	All is going to be 20% off the sale runs April 11th through April 22nd, market calendars. Let's do this spring refresh together.
1:03.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Dear Alice. Today we have got an expert with us. We've got Gatti from Orientalist home and we are going to be talking about vintage rugs and all things rugs.
1:15.9	Hand-naughted rugs, different materials, why rugs are so valuable. What makes them last longer? Lots of wonderful questions we're going to be asking from a lot of our listeners.
1:27.7	And just even questions that we might have for Gatti today. So welcome Gatti. We're happy to have you. Gatti is the owner and creator of Orientalist home.
1:37.1	He's a rug lover and an antique rug addict. He calls himself. Gatti is our first stop every market. We go to to see him very first.
1:48.3	We actually fly into market a day early and we run to find Gatti as fast as we can because we want to see what he has from the antique rugs.
1:57.8	They're one of a kind. So they're not programmed and there's only one way to get him for us. We like shopping from him the best.
2:07.1	He's got such a beautiful selection and it's really fun to when he tells us the stories of the rugs. So anyway, with that welcome Gatti. We're happy to have you.
2:15.2	Thank you very much. Thank you for inviting me. It's pleasure.
2:18.4	Well, thank you. Gatti, tell the people where you're from because you have a beautiful accent.
2:23.4	Thank you so much. I was born and raised in Turkey and we are Sephardic Jews originally from Spain.
2:31.0	So 500 years ago, my family came from Spain to Turkey. And I'm the first generation immigrant. I'm a proud American now.
2:39.6	Wow. That's cool. And how many languages do you speak?
2:42.6	I speak four languages. I'm fluent in English, Turkish. I speak some Farsi because of all this traveling in the years.
2:51.2	I speak Portuguese because of my wives and little Italian.
2:55.4	Wow. That's so cool. Thank you.
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