Petit Emir is an emblematic carpet of the Maison Braquenié, marketed since the nineteenth century and reflecting the era's taste for orientalist atmospheres. The order registers record a commission from the Comédie-Française in 1861 — a provenance few designs of any kind can match. Woven as an Axminster, it continues a long working life: a pattern that has dressed serious floors for a century and a half, and knows how.
