“What’s modern to me isn’t austerity; it’s just a sharper focus on shape and line, scale and coloration that reveals the character of the material itself.”

Thomas O’Brien is the first personality to create a signature collection for Safavieh. Designer, merchant, collector and tastemaker, O’Brien pioneered the style of warm modernism. The founder of the renowned Aero Studios, he has received press and industry accolades for commercial and residential interiors for high-profile clients, among them Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren. In his collection for Safavieh, Thomas O’Brien straddles modern and traditional genres with his trademark vintage inflection.






























