Quote from article entitled, “Iranian furniture competes with the best in the world,” Gregory Lima, Kayhan International, 1979:

The new Iranian design was first worked out by Mehdi Ebrahimian in rating furniture for [Abbasi Hotel] Shah Abbas Hotel in Isfahan. It was an immediate sensation.

The design was based on careful research into Sassanian and Safavid prototypes. Properly seasoned walnut was used in constructing frames. The first fabrics used were velvets in solid colors from the Kashan Textile Factory. This was the new Iranian design in its first generation as hotel furniture and it included tables, lounge chairs and bedsteads….

At this stage, Violette Dehghani played an important role, as together with Mehdi Ebrahimian, the basic furniture design was orchestrated from the chair to the sofa to the coffee table, the end tables and onto dining table tables and stately dining chairs to cabinets and bedroom furnitures.

Textile designer Mohammad Naraghi joined forces creating a brilliant line of new furniture fabrics hand loomed in Yazd. These were also researched. Based on classic Iranian textile motifs in simple repeat patterns, they were rendered in one or two delicate variations of fresh, vivid colours. The new furniture fabrics blended the furniture with Persian carpets in an organic way rarely achieved with modern furnishings.

[The] third generation of Mehdi Ebrahimian’s basic designs, made in Isfahan of Persian walnut by skilled craftsmen — all of whom are graduate cabinet makers under [Mr. Javad Chaichi’s] master supervision — the work is solid and exceptionally sturdy. The fabrics are hand loomed with a texture as appealing as the colours are delicate. The result is something that is suddenly making a name for Iranian furniture on the international scene. Orders are pouring in for the Ebrahimian furniture from [the] United States, from Europe, from across the Persian Gulf, and from other points in the Far and Middle East.