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Peter Pap Oriental Rugs in the News

Our January newsletter with important announcements

By Peter Pap
Published Third Week of January 2012

Happy New Year! Once again, Peter Pap Oriental Rugs will be participating in the prestigious Winter Antiques Show this month in New York City. I've been exhibiting in the Winter Show since 1993, and every year I look forward to being in the company of some of the best art and antiques dealers in the world during the ten-day run of the show.

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Eye on Design with Peter Pap

By Andrew Myers
Published Third Week of May 2010, 1stdibs Introspective Magazine

A leading dealer in Oriental rugs, Peter Pap is also a classically trained musician who riffed into jazz and founded an Oregon commune along the way. Grab a ticket and let this San Francisco-based specialist take you on a magic carpet ride.

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Investing in Antique Oriental Rugs by Peter Pap

Published in the Chubb Collectors Online Newsletter, November 2, 2009

I'm inspired to write on this subject as I have watched the gyrations of the stock market over the past year. I have always felt that high-quality antique oriental rugs are a very safe place to park your money, and my belief in their long-term value remains unshaken. If you plan to live with beautiful rugs for the rest of your life, once you've made the investment antique oriental rugs are "the gifts that keep on giving."

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Dealer Profile: Peter Pap

By Paul O'Donnell
Published February 17, 2009, The Magazine Antiques

At Peter Pap's booth at the Greenwich Antiques Show in Connecticut, a woman is examining an enormous Mahal carpet with an unusual green ground that has been attracting passersby all morning. Looking down, the woman asks, "How much is it?" Pap replies, with a courtly nod, "fifty-four thousand dollars." [READ MORE...]

Peter Pap in Fortune Small Business Magazine

Rugs to Riches
Our experts smooth the wrinkles in a carpet dealer's expansion plans

Brian O'Reilly/San Francisco

(FSB Magazine) -- AS A SUCCESSFUL DEALER IN ORIENTAL RUGS for more than three decades, Peter Pap has a well-honed sense of the market. These days he's picking up vibes that make him both excited and increasingly anxious. [READ MORE ...]

Treasures You Purchase to Hold On To

By Pamela Ryckman
Published: March 29 2008, Financial Times

David Eckles and Allene Wong were interested in tribal and folk art, and initially thought about buying antique oriental rugs as an investment. But the more they learned, the more they fell in love with the art form. "Tribal rugs are very personal, something that speaks to you from a distant culture and tells you what life was like more than a century ago," says Wong. "They're so alive, and they tell a story." [READ MORE ...]

In Oriental Rugs, Pap Found a Goldmine

By Karen Sanborne, The Keene Sentinel

Immediately, you are on guard. Because here in the sunlit foyer of Peter Pap Oriental Rugs on Route 101 in Dublin, the quiet indicates seriousness. To your right is a long corridor flanked with white pillars and cream-colored walls, incrementally interrupted by hanging, oriental rugs. These are better described as rectangular woven wonders, each about 100 years old, and each crafted by the deft hands of nomads and weavers from Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey and southern Russia. More rugs rest lazily on the dark wooden-planked floor, like tired debutantes. Others are coiled like architectural plans in a corner of the foyer.

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