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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.

Learn more about the Persian Teahouse Chaikhaneh style

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

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Typography

AmiriHeadings
Markazi TextBody
VazirmatnMono
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