Frick Collection

The Frick Collection will treat an important 16th-century Herat carpet in its collection. The carpet, purchased in 1916 by Henry Clay Frick, is the earliest and most significant of the six Persian carpets in the collection, and the only one that is regularly on view. The carpet is the centerpiece of one of the most cherished rooms of the Frick mansion, the Living Hall, a historic interior that looks much as it did when Henry Frick was alive. The carpet will be vacuumed, solvent-cleaned to reduce impregnated adhesives and stains, and wet-cleaned, and old repairs will be addressed and rectified. A new aluminum-faced platform will be built to protect the carpet from visitors’ feet once it is back on view.