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New England's Leading Source of the Finest Hand Made
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 At the opening ceremony, the plaque reads, "Solomon's Collection & Fine Rugs of Quincy joins Emerson College in thanking the Semel family for their generousity with their contribution to the theater of the hand-knotted Bokara area rug featured on stage." Click here to see more pictures of the design event. Picture Courtesy of Emerson College, Department of the Performing Arts © 2004 |
Yahoo!
CEO Terry Semel Fund Theater at Emerson College
The 210-seat Theater 1 and its adjoining lobby in the new Tufte Performance and Production Center at Emerson College has been named the Semel Theater in recognition of a major gift from Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc., and Jane Semel...
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Boston Magazine tributes the SOLOMON'S COLLECTION G rand Opening in Quincy Picture Courtesy of Boston Magazine ©
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On January 30 the City of Quincy welcomed a new member into its business community with the grand opening of SOLOMON'S COLLECTION & FINE RUGS located in the heart of Quincy...
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Quincy Schools art directors and Solomon announce design contest Picture Courtesy of The Quincy Sun © 2003
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Contest
Permits Students To Design An Actual Rug
One of the city's newest retailers has teamed up with the Quincy School-Community Partnership program in an effort to encourage young artists. Solomon Mojtabai, owner of Solomon's Collection & Fine Rugs, 809 Hancock St., designed a special project for students at the middle school level that will net experience for the artist and funds for the schools...  Read
entire "Students Design An Actual Rug" on the SOLOMON'S website!
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Picture Courtesy of The Quincy Sun © 2003
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SOLOMON'S
COLLECTION & FINE RUGS Moves To New Quincy Location THE QUINCY SUN · THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2003 Solomon's
Collection & Fine Rugs, formerly located in Boston's Back
Bay, recently moved to Quincy at 809 Hancock St. The firm features a large collection of handmade wool and silk carpets
from around the world, and antiques. Solomon Mojtabai, a retired general
and vascular surgeon, established the company in 1987 as a result
of his lifelong passion for oriental carpets...
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Quincy Mayor Phelan
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Courtesy of artsMEDIA Magazine © 2002
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The
Magic of Carpets ARTS MEDIA MAGAZINE · November 15 - December 15, 2002 Arguably the first decoratively designed item of home decor wasn't made out of wood or stone, but of fiber. For thousands of years in Persia, the measure of comfort, harmony and status in the home was in the quality and design of its carpets. At first, according to Solomon Mojtabai, of Solomon's Collection & Fine Rugs, people needed something to sit on, something portable, and that was a carpet. The designs themselves tell the story of culture, beliefs, and aesthetic harmony, in silk, cotton, or wool. "Most of the early designs come close to the designs like paintings on the walls of caves," said Mojtabai. Persian designs go back at least 2500 years. The oldest known knotted-pile carpet, called the Pazyryk, was found in a burial mound in Siberia, and has a complex design including Persian warriors on horseback, elks, and geometricized floral motifs in the center, with various border patterns. And like most of the earliest known designs, this one is still being made, with regional modifications, to this day... |
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 A new Oriental rug store is under construction on the former site of Bill Shea's Formica on Hancock Street in Quincy. Picture Courtesy of the Patriot Ledger © 2002
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Upscale Shops Finding Home Away From Home THE PATRIOT LEDGER · SATURDAY/SUNDAY, August 17-18, 2002 City attracts 'higher level' of professional people An oriental rug store is relocating from Park Square in Boston to Quincy's Wollaston neighborhood, a move some people believe reflects growing pockets of affluence among some of the city's newest and oldest residents. Solomon's Collection and Fine Rugs will sell hand-made oriental rugs from India, Pakistan, Iran, and Nepal when it opens this fall. Catering to a mostly wealthy clientele with the money to purchase rugs that cost several thousand dollars, the store in Quincy a decade ago would seem improbable. But Solomon's is not the only upscale shop to relocate to Quincy...
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PLEASE NOTE THAT SOLOMON'S COLLECTION HAS MOVED FROM BOSTON TO QUINCY WITH EVEN MORE SHOWROOM SPACE, A LARGER EXCLUSIVE INVENTORY, AND PRIVATE PARKING! PLEASE VISIT US IN QUINCY SOON! (click
here for directions)
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Newbury
Street Rugs Heads for the South End BOSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL · Week of MAY 25, 1998 INDUSTRY WRAPUPS Samantha T. Smith Following the lead of several other furniture stores in the Back Bay area, Newbury Street Rugs is leaving its long-time home on Newbury Street and heading to the emerging furniture hub near the South End. Solomon Mojtabai, who owns the store with his wife, Nayier, said he's eager to join his counterparts in the South End...
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MAGIC
CARPETS By Sara Terry THE BOSTON GLOBE · THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1994 The way Solomon
Mojtabai figures it his love affair with oriental rugs was born
in the earliest months of his life, during the days when he first
started crawling around on the rug-covered floors of his parents'
home in Iran. "For Persians, it's like rugs are in our blood," says Mojtabai,
a former surgeon and lifelong rug collector. "When we open our
eyes as babies, they are what we see... |
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