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Obituaries
12/13/2024
Dallas Market Center announces that chairman emeritus Bill Winsor died on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2025.
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Obituaries
8/30/2024
Nourison Home announces the death of long-time valued Nourison team member Owen Baker.
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Obituaries, People
10/23/2023
Jesse Smith Capel, who joined the family rug business in 1957, has died at the age of 90.
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Industry, Obituaries
3/8/2023
Ronald J. Couri, president and CEO at Couristan, died March 1. Visitation will be held on Wed. March 15, with a funeral service on March 16.
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Industry, Obituaries
2/15/2023
Ralph M. Long, age 76, a rug industry veteran, died on Feb. 8, 2023. Fondly known as “The Momeni Man," he represented many vendors, including Momeni, covering the territories of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi.
RugNews.com Editors
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Obituaries
9/6/2022
Gustavo Arnal, executive vice president and chief financial officer of the company, fell to his death Friday from a Manhattan skyscraper.
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Obituaries, People
8/15/2022
Third-generation rug expert Mansour Yaghoubian, founder of Mansour's Oriental Rug Gallery in California, has died.
RugNews.com Editors
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Obituaries
6/7/2022
Oriental Weavers USA has announced that long-time CEO Ahmed Salama died peacefully surrounded by his family on June 4, 2022.
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Obituaries
3/16/2021
Blake Hill, who served as vice president of national accounts at Oriental Weavers for more than two decades, has died at 47.
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Obituaries
1/5/2021
Neal J. McCarley, a former rug buyer and an award-winning rug sales representative, died on Oct. 31, 2020, at his home in Plano, Texas.
RugNews.com Editors
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Obituaries
12/31/2020
Mirza Kalaty, who founded Kalaty Rug Corp.'s U.S. operation in 1979, has died at the age of 85.
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Obituaries
11/15/2020
RugNews.com mourns the loss of Howard B. Tisch, a passionate consumer advocate and groundbreaking NYC governmental regulations attorney, whose wife, Carol Tisch, is publisher of this news site.
RugNews.com Editors
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Obituaries
9/21/2020
The legendary businessman was well known for his business successes, philanthropy and efforts to bring new industries and opportunities to the people of Egypt.
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Obituaries
8/20/2020
Company to continue its support for the Christopher Guy Area Rug Collection license and partnership after design industry icon's passing.
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Obituaries
8/19/2020
The British designer founded his eponymous international furnishings brand Christopher Guy in 1993.
RugNews.com Editors
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Obituaries
8/14/2020
The longtime Dynamic Rugs vice president of sales and marketing died suddenly and unexpectedly on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020
RugNews.com Editors
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Obituaries
7/1/2020
A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Textile Surface Design, she joined Safavieh in 2006 as a rug designer.
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Obituaries
2/22/2020
After beginning his career as a buyer for Filene's, Burnham, he went on to found Central Oriental in the mid-1980s
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Obituaries
2/5/2020
Legendary antique rug dealer Doris Leslie Blau, who founded her eponymous gallery in 1965, has died.
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Obituaries
1/17/2020
The president of Mobayen Rugs in Beverly Hills, California, he went on to found The Rug Show.