Trade Talk     11/12/2009 by Andrew Pageby, as seen in Avenue After buying an ornate but well-worn seventeenth-century Ouchak carpet for close to $100,000, a Christie’s customer asked Elisabeth Poole, head of the auction house’s carpet department, to recommend someone who might be able to restore the antique Turkish rug. Poole suggested transporting it […]

Material Goods     11/12/2009 by Ondine Cohane, as seen in New York Magazine You have two choices when you go to Hayko’s: You can either lug your beloved but tattered antique rug or kilim there and have it attentively restored, or you can buy a new one from the large collection. Sale items (accumulated […]

Hayk “Hayko” Oltaci remembers the day he realized he had a passion for rugs    02/06/2010 by Silva Harapetian Armenian Reporter Crazy about carpets by Silva Harapetian Published: Saturday December 06, 2008 Hayko Oltaci helps a student learn to weave a small rug. Photo Credit Silva Sergenian Hayko Fine Rugs and Tapestries View Gallery New […]

Ritz-Carlton magazine: editor’s  letter: devoted to the arts    07/01/2008 Jamie M. Hoffman Ritz-Carlton magazine Jamie M. Hoffman devoted to the arts The Ritz-Carlton hotels around the world celebrate and sup- port the arts in so many unique ways, we felt it was important now to present some of these experiences in our magazine. Considering […]

Ritz-Carlton magazine: 4 in Studio     07/01/2008 by Karlin McCarthy Ritz-Carlton magazine PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEVEN VOTE  4in Studio They are world-class entrepreneurs, but artists at heart. They find inspiration in a piece of fabric, a rooftop or an empty stage — wherever a blank canvas exists upon which innovation takes flight. Indeed, when it […]