Claremont Rug Company Orchestrates the Marriage of Antique Oriental Rugs, Fine Art and Furniture (Part 2)

While Jan David Winitz’s clients are diverse in their backgrounds and reside on six continents, they share a passion for great art and understand how their tastes can be melded into complementary matching of paintings, sculpture and furniture with antique Oriental rugs from the Second Golden Age of Persian Weaving. In the first segment of this two-part series, the president and founder of Claremont Rug Company related anecdotes of how his clients asked him to place rugs that would highlight and complement other collections of their art to create a personal ethos in their residences. In this segment, he describes how he helps guide the process of selecting art-level Second Golden Age rugs for his clients. “Many of the residences where I have placed substantial numbers of antique rugs are of contemporary design,” he says. “One which particularly stands out is a major whole home project where the interior