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Exit
ways has good clothes,” someone
was saying as we left.
Back outside, at a stall draped
in 19th-century Turkish kilims,
we met Jesse, a long-haired young
man who once worked for the
kilim-seller, and had returned to
pitch in for the night. Jesse looked
to us like a potential young collector himself, outfitted as he was in
a bow-tie that made his long hair
look Victorian.
But Jesse assured us he wasn’t,
CULTURE
before giving us the low-down
on the antique Turkish rug market. Stock comes exclusively from
collectors in Germany and Switzerland, according to his experience. “There’s nothing in Turkey
anymore,” he told us. He did not
pause for a moment of silence,
and so neither did we. Are young
collectors truly a viable clientele,
we asked, back on point? Jesse
shrugged. “I can’t really say,” he
told us, before moving onto a topic
that seemed to interest him more,
the fact that he makes rap videos
now. He told us he was working on
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Proceeds
from the
show go to
the East
Side House
Settlement in
the Bronx.