“It once was Princess Sissi’s bedside rug: today, it is one of the rarest carpets in the world. [...] Actually, it is a bird pattern carpet, typical of the seventeenth-century manufacture in western Anatolia. [...] A princely exemplar, that the art dealer Moshe Tabibnia chose to put on display, along with nearly thirty masterpieces, in the inaugural exhibition unveiling his newly renovated gallery in Via Brera 3, Milan. [...] ‘The idea’ he explains ‘was to create a space suiting the needs of both collectors and museums’. [...] A versatile gallery inspired by the examples in London... so far the first one conceived this way in Italy. I think that this kind of resources are essential in Milan, the capital of collectible carpets, where nearly twenty highly regarded galleries are based.’ As if any reminder were needed, this city is also enriched by the textile heritage held within the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, rivalling any collection on the international scene even when extraordinary pieces are brought back to light [...] as it happened last April, when an outstanding Ming Dynasty exemplar was auctioned at Sotheby’s Hong Kong [...]”.
 
Chiara Gatti