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Scarsdale was designed for a particular kind of domestic life. The Tudor Revival and Georgian Colonial houses built along its winding streets in the 1910s through 1940s were constructed with formal rooms that expected formal furnishings. The living room had a center hall entry. The dining room had a coffered ceiling. The library had built-in bookshelves and a fireplace. Every one of these rooms was built around a rug, and for most of the twentieth century, that rug was a Persian.
Rugs.net ships directly to Scarsdale from our Freeport, Long Island warehouse. We import directly from Iranian workshops and family weavers, which means our pricing reflects what a rug actually costs to produce and transport, not what it costs to run a gallery on Madison Avenue. The Kashan at 9 x 12 that a New York gallery marks at $12,000 is available from us at $3,700. The same rug. The same origin. The same quality. The markup chain is simply not in the price.
Free UPS or FedEx delivery to every Scarsdale address. Free returns within 30 days, immediate refund. White glove delivery for larger pieces with one week scheduling notice. If you find the same rug cheaper anywhere, we beat that price by 10%.
The Scarsdale Manor House: Kashan and Bijar for Formal Rooms
The formal rooms of Scarsdale’s manor houses are built for two rug types above all others. The Persian Kashan, with its dense wool pile, deep medallion field, and curvilinear floral border, is the defining rug of the formal American domestic interior. It has been in these rooms for a hundred years. It looks correct here in a way that nothing else quite matches.
The Persian Bijar, the iron rug of Persia, brings something the Kashan does not: near-indestructible construction. Scarsdale households with dogs, children, and decades of formal entertaining understand the value of a rug that does not wear out. A Bijar in a Scarsdale dining room can outlast every chair around the table.
Antique Kashan and Collector Pieces
Scarsdale has a long tradition of antique rug collecting. The 1930s Kashan in good condition is one of the most undervalued objects in the antique market. Its wool has had eighty years to develop the patina and suppleness that no new production can replicate. Its vegetable dyes have mellowed into the palette of its period. It is also genuinely old, which matters in a house built in the same era.
Our Farsi reading ability means every signed piece in our inventory has authenticated provenance. We read the signature, identify the workshop or master weaver, and describe it accurately. No guesswork about origin or attribution.
For the Scarsdale Library and Study
The library or study in a Scarsdale manor house is among the most specific rooms in American residential architecture. Low light, bookshelves, a fireplace, leather furniture. This room calls for a rug with warmth and weight. A Persian Sarough in rose-red or burgundy, or an ivory-field Nain for rooms where the walls carry the warmth, works beautifully in these smaller, more intimate spaces.
