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Carpet cleaning and restoration.(Design notes)(Kent-Costikyan)(Company Profile)
More than a century ago, in 1884, S. Kent Costikyan left his native Turkey for the United States. In Constantinople (now Istanbul) his father had developed a rapport with the missionaries stationed there and he decided to send his son to Colgate Academy (now Colgate University) in Hamilton, New York, to pursue theological studies. The Costikyan family was in the import-export business, primarily engaged in exporting rugs around the world. When a shipment of rugs arrived in New York City and traditional channels for selling them fell through, the young Costikyan took them to Hamilton, where he was able to sell them to members of the school's faculty and administration. His career interests took a turn, and in 1886 he opened Costikyan Freres in Rochester, New York. He subsequently moved the company to New York City at a time when the family had branches in Constantinople, London, and Kirman in Persia. In 1900 he and other family members who had joined him form Turkey, opened Kent-Costikyan in New York City, continuing to sell antique and contemporary carpets made all over the world.
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Today the firm is run by members of the third and fourth generations of the family. Aside from selling the same kinds of carpets they have handled over the course of the last hundred years, the company also specializes in restoring and cleaning rugs under the name Restoration by Costikyan. Some of the carpets that are brought to them for restoration were sold by their forebears to individuals like James Deering, whose enormous house, Vizcaya, was built in Miami between 1916 and 1925. Today it is a historic house museum. The colorful seventeenth-century Portuguese needlework carpet illustrated on this page adorns the banquet hall at Vizcaya. Deering bought it for the house ...
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