Wild Shaman Kilims&Rugs

In one sense, Wild Shaman is a Portland, Oregon-based rug shop specializing in rare and antique Anatolian rugs and kilims. But it's so much more than that. Enter the sun-drenched boutique in East Portland, and it's hard to tell if you're in a carpet showroom, an art gallery, a museum - or even an extremely bright, warm and well-appointed residence.

Colors and textures explode throughout the sprawling, white-washed expanse. Broad, fiddle-leaf fig trees and elegant wooden furniture play off the brilliant, richly-dyed woolen Turkish rugs, while pops of neon signage and iridescent accent tables lend the space a harder, contemporary edge. Somehow, everything meshes perfectly.

And it's exactly this eclecticism that perhaps best defines what Wild Shaman is: a labor of love, reflecting its owners' passion for history, design, community and home. Wild Shaman was created by Emre and Yesim Taskin, an entrepreneurial and multi-talented power couple from Istanbul, Turkey.