desirePlate 530 · Kashan, Iran

Tabatabaei House

A house of courtyards and stained glass, a merchant's universe behind a mud wall.

1880s · Ustad Ali Maryam · Middle East

The chamber score

Dastgah-e Homayun, radif

Mirza Abdollah · Persian classical

Tile, iwan, and a dastgah that refuses the minor/major split.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

One of the historic houses of Kashan, a summit of Iranian domestic architecture.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Tabatabaei House through desire — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if Tabatabaei House was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.