About us

What you should know about us :

Our father, Ebrahim Zomorrodi, founded 1979 a gallery and workshop for hand-knotted Oriental rugs in Düsseldorf.

As children, we used the stacks of rugs to drive our father to the brink of madness with breakneck jumps. The patterns of the Persian rugs were our winding motorways for toy cars.

After our studies, we were drawn back to stacks of rugs and hypnotic patterns. We are Philipp and Dr. Maurice Zomorrodi, and we want to pass our enthusiasm for rugs on to you. Our goal along the way: to combine traditional craftsmanship with contemporary values and design.

Step by step, we, Philipp and Dr. Maurice, are following in our father's footsteps, keeping our rug business alive in the digital age and developing it further while staying true to tradition. Together we want to give expression to our enthusiasm for rugs.

In doing so, we combine traditional craftsmanship with contemporary design and values. The following four points are especially close to our hearts:

About us - our commitment to sustainability:

Oriental rugs are made to last forever, or at the very least for several generations. Even a pre-owned rug will still serve its purpose for decades. So it doesn't always have to be a new rug. Especially since the charm of an old, pre-owned Oriental rug is unmatched.

Buying a pre-owned rug is sustainable: no new wool has to be produced and dyed, and the rug doesn't have to be knotted and shipped all over again. We reassemble pre-owned Oriental rugs into patchwork rugs, for example. There are also innovations in rug production. New techniques allow rugs to be made in an environmentally friendly way. We support new developments and have, for example, produced rugs made from recycled PET bottles . Upcycling couldn't be lovelier.

With us, flying carpets finally exist! To make that as environmentally friendly as possible, we ship our rugs with, or rather in, the Repack.

Our Repack is made from 100% recyclable materials and helps us banish needless plastic waste from this world. What's more, with the Repack and your help we can save up to 80% of CO2 emissions.

Transparency:

What else should you know about us? Rug dealers have a worse reputation than mattress sellers and insurance agents combined. Endless clearance sales and doorstep selling are annoying and breed mistrust. We want to win that trust back and sell rugs in a reputable way. There are no inflated prices or fantasy discounts here, just fair, transparent prices from the very start.

Informed decision:

For many people, buying a rug online is out of the question. A rug has to be touched and tried out at home. That's true: the internet can't replace trying a rug out in your own four walls. That's why, if you order online, you can try any of our rugs at home for 14 days.

Above all, though, the internet offers a rare opportunity: we want rug lovers to be able to make an informed decision. That's why we provide comprehensive information on every rug, on care and on living with hand-knotted rugs, plus a personal consultation if you'd like one.

And if you live in Düsseldorf, the Rhineland or the Ruhr area, you are of course welcome to touch and examine the rugs in our showroom any time before having them sent or delivered to your home.

Inspiration:

We want to inspire. The quality of hand-knotted Oriental rugs, their unmistakable patterns and colours have been all but forgotten. With our interior examples we want to bring back the magic of genuine handmade Oriental rugs and show that modern interiors in particular go beautifully with traditional Oriental rugs.

We're glad this matters to you as much as it does to us!

All the best

Philipp & Maurice