Massoud Nili, who has lived in the U.K. since he was 10 years old, changed his Peykan Hunter into a 1970s’ Iranian taxi.
He says: “To me my taxi is [like] history on four wheels, it gives me pleasure bringing back some memory from our past.”
Inspired by a Persian incense burner found in an antique store in New Orleans, the architect John Eberson designed the Avalon Theatre of Chicago in late 1925.
Samarkand neighbourhood in Santa Barbara, California, takes its name from Samarkand Persian Hotel. The Persian themed luxury hotel was in operation from 1920 to 1940.
“A pocket guide to Iran” was a booklet published by U.S. War Department in 1943. It aimed to inform the U.S. military, who were present in Iran at the time, about the basics of the Iranian culture, history, and geography.
Plates from The history of the feminine costume of the world, from the year 5318 B.C. to our century by Paul Louis de Giafferri published in 1926-1927, New York.
“Persian” costumes worn by young American society women in 1913 & 1914. As you can see the Western perception of Iran in the early 20th century was of an exotic and mysterious land, but today this has changed somewhat.
Persepolis is a small Iranian corner shop in Peckham, a district in South London.
The Former Embassy of Iran in Washington, D.C. is located at 3003-3005 Massachusetts Avenue, in Washington, D.C.’s Embassy Row neighbourhood. Withdrawn, silent, and inaccessible it has been closed since the fall of the Shah, and the US embassy hostage crisis of 1979.
A collection of propaganda posters, published by the British during the World War II, in Persian for distribution in Iran. The posters’s dimensions are about 76cm X 50cm. These posters are preserved in Imperial War Museums.
Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933), was a British book illustrator who worked in a style which merged the British tradition of illustration from the 1860s with aspects of Art Nouveau.
Later in his career, he illustrated the First Version of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald, using images of skeletons and animated pots.
