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Kiyan KamalfarKiyan Kamalfar, born in winter 1971, a bachelor graduate of both computer engineering of the university of Tehran & interior designing of London University, started the movement of using a new generation of stone & glass in Iran's society of Arts & Architecture and reached a fine level of furniture designing in the field.

The establishment of this movement was based on both scientific research and artistic spirit of Kiyan as the composer. Nature, along with his enthusiasts towards form & function which arise from his visual and abstract memory inspired him the most to achieve composing a different artistic style with the rough quality of stone. Basically this subtle paradox inside stone and glass seems to be the secret of this new style.

The idea of using stone widely as a routine material in furniture designing forms in 1995: the first independent with the support of Ghaem stone factory was held in 1997 with the name of “stone & design.“

The exhibition was a complete success and a start of the partnership of Kamalfar & the Ghaem stone factory.

This partnership went on and by the year 1999 the exhibited objects became in 70 different styles, such as tables, lamps, statues, chimneys, etc.

In the year 2000, Kamalfar exported some of his designed furniture to Hamburg, Germany for the first time and this made it possible for him to export more objects to England and Saudi Arabia later. By the time Kamalfar gained a noticeable  rank in the Iran's Interior design society and established  his own studio with the name of "studio New Design" to work widely in different field of Arts like Architecture, Interior , Music composing, Painting & etc. In the beginning of the 2o's century, New Design gallery was also established in sheikh Bahayi street to work specifically in the field of visual Arts& accomplished holding different exhibition of painting, Graphic, custom designing, sculpture& musical concerts. The good was to find & introduce new talents of the entire fields.

Later he decided to limit his activities to 3 departments of:

  • Furniture designing
  • Interior designing
  • Architecture

In order to achieve the idea of designing new set of furniture he worked with Payam salehi (founder of Seven) & Changiz Nikbakht (Classical furniture producer) as a partner. This new set of furniture was mostly in far or of the young. He also received the best exhibition stand award by the end of year 2002 in Tehran's International exhibition of interior design. Studio New Design was registered in 2003 and held the first specific interior designing exhibition in the same year where he gained the first staged in designing again.

In 2005 he introduced around 700 m2 from his studio as a showroom to show different styles of imported furniture to the public.

In this way he cold gathers different types of furniture in one place. Thust he was supported by a wide range of people and established branches in Mashhad in 2006.

However, because of sudden problems that occurred between Kamalfar and his partner he left SND and aimed to establish a new company, using his experiences through these years. The new studio named IDAD CENTER “Iran Decorative Arts& Design center” which has an area around 5000 m2 as showroom in 5 levels.

IDAD CENTER started his professional activities in spring 2006 and gathered more than 30 brands of high quality furniture from around the world.

It has about 60 employees, working in different departments under consideration of Mr. Kiyan Kamalfar. The other investors are Yadollah & Anvar Roozchang.

Working areas:

  • Architecture & interior design
  • Modern furniture style
  • Classical furniture
  • Post-modern furniture
  • Official furniture
  • Lighting
  • Accessories
  • Sculpture
  • Carpet
  • Bed & Bedding
  • Baby Room
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