The Paris appartment — A stone base from an atelin of the school of Beaux Arts on, and a stone head of Diana, french 18th century.
Fereydoon Ave was born in Tehran in 1944. He studied scenography and cinema in America and started his career as an artist in Iran in 1971 in theatre, painting, graphic design and sculpture. Design and production of furniture and interior design for houses and offices is a part of the artistic work he has been interested in the last decades.
The Paris appartment — 19th century chinese trunks · Chinese busto · Gravures by Cy Twombly · 19th century french chairs, columns,The Paris appartment — 18th century furniture · African tabouret, Kilim of Ghazvin · Iron tabouret by Bahman Dadkhah · Chinese busto, 18th century · Fortuni curtains.
Fereydoon Ave is an artist, a purist, an aesthet. His “regard” is not an indifferent one. He is constantly searching and researching in space and human environment, analyzing objects, materials, assembling his furniture. In his painting he often uses “collage” and calligraphy, and in his interior installations of furniture he likes old concepts and models, and sometimes even the authentic furniture itself. He calls this “recyclage”, that is, the reuse of old objects in a new composition.
The Vanak House — All lights designed by: F. Ave · All furniture designed by F. Ave · Big Painting by Douglas Johnson painted in Iran · Smaller painting: a piece of a painted ceiling, turn of the century · Kilim of Varamin · Sculpture by Shahrokh GhiasiThe Vanak House — All lights designed by: F. Ave · All furniture designed by F. Ave · Big Painting by Douglas Johnson painted in Iran · Smaller painting: a piece of a painted ceiling, turn of the century · Kilim of Varamin · Sculpture by Shahrokh GhiasiThe Vanak House — All lights designed by: F. Ave · All furniture designed by F. Ave · Big Painting by Douglas Johnson painted in Iran · Smaller painting: a piece of a painted ceiling, turn of the century · Kilim of Varamin · Sculpture by Shahrokh Ghiasi7- Table leg, designed by F. AveThe Isfahan house — The paintings by Parviz Kalantari, in mortar and gesso. Furniture: old Art Deco table and chairs from Reza Shah period and a wall to wall “takht” (bed). Clothing material: blue hand moven cloths of Yazd and Isfahan printed cloths. Decorative objects all produced in Iran or ordered by Iranians to Russia or Europe.The Isfahan house — The paintings by Parviz Kalantari, in mortar and gesso. Furniture: old Art Deco table and chairs from Reza Shah period and a wall to wall “takht” (bed). Clothing material: blue hand moven cloths of Yazd and Isfahan printed cloths. Decorative objects all produced in Iran or ordered by Iranians to Russia or Europe.“Farzan Rooz” Editorial Entrance — Sculpture and painting by F. Ave · Two persons’ chair, Qajar style inspired
The magazine printed only the two paragraphs above in English, together with the caption key. The Farsi article is considerably longer: it carries Ave’s account of the three transitions in the history of Iranian furniture — Qajar to the first Pahlavi period, then the second, then after the revolution — and his account of his own working method. The magazine printed no English for any of it.
