Kiarostami’s house adorned with tile

Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Oraganization (CHTHO) has adorned the house of world-renowned auteur Abbas Kiarostami in Tehran with an Eternal Tile.

Kiarostami’s nephew, Hamid Qaderi, attended the ceremony held to embed the tile on the wall of his house, CHTHO stated on Monday.

Talking at the ceremony, Qaderi said “He was a great filmmaker and cinema is deeply indebted to him.”

Kiarostami used to live in the house, in Tehran’s Chizar neighborhood, from 1976 until his death on July 4, 2016, following a heart attack at the age of 76.

He was also an accomplished photographer and painter. His last film was ‘Like Someone in Love’ (2012), a romantic drama set in Japan, which was nominated for a Palme d’Or at Cannes.

The late writer-director has been critically hailed as a pioneer of the Iranian New Wave.

Kiarostami has won many awards including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Festival in 1997 for his film ‘Taste of Cherry’.

He is mostly known as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer as well as a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer.

The veteran Iranian filmmaker was also honored at this year’s Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles.

CHTHO also installed four other Eternal Tiles on the houses of actor and director Sirous Ebrahimzadeh, folk art scholar Hadi Seif, natinal arts master Manouchehr Tariqi, and writer Ebrahim Younesi.

CHTHO Office for Inscription of Properties and Revitalization of Intangible and Natural Heritage began the move to install tile works on the houses of contemporary artists, literati and religious figures this May with adorning the house of surrealist painter Iran Darroudi.

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