If you have taste in home furnishing and decoration, or you simply enjoy window-shopping for interesting stuff, like pottery, artificial flowers, candles, ornamental cushions, glass vases, and the sort, you've surely heard of a place called Khaneh-ye Javan (The House of Youth). It's a store on Shariati Street in Tehran, just north of Farhang Cinema, which opened about five years ago.

These five years sufficed for the House to become well known and attract customers that believe its products to be unique and gift-worthy. The place owes its fame mostly to the young owner, Ardeshir Afrashteh, whose ideas of blending business with home-grown art has resulted in a profitable and popular concoction...~>