About Persian Teahouse Chaikhaneh
The Persian qahveh-khaneh — the coffeehouse and teahouse of the Qajar era — was a theater of painted epic. Its walls carried naqqashi-ye qahveh-khaneh: sprawling narrative canvases of Shahnameh heroes in lacquer-red armour, painted in a flamboyant, saturated palette over deep earthen-ochre grounds.
This system distills that storyteller's room into an interface: oxblood lacquer grounds, gold-leaf ornament, turquoise tilework, samovar brass, and authentic nastaliq script. Every surface is dense with figures and arabesque — never minimal, never washed out.
- Origin
- Iran (Persia) — Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz coffeehouses
- Era
- pre-1900 (Qajar dynasty, 1789–1925); naqqashi-ye qahveh-khaneh peak ~1850–1910
- Key figures
- Hossein Qollar Aqasi · Mohammad Modabber · Abbas Boloukifar · Qollar Aqasi school painters
- Movements
- Naqqashi-ye qahveh-khaneh (coffeehouse painting) · Shahnameh narrative fresco tradition · Qajar lacquer and tilework
Persian Teahouse Chaikhaneh design spec
Colors
Typography
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