Louise’s career at Christie’s began over 25 years ago in 1998. In 2002, she was appointed Junior Specialist in the Rugs and Carpets department where she went on to be made Head of Sale in 2012 and Director and Head of Department in 2014. Following Louise’s extensive years of experience and deep knowledge of the field, she has helped nurture the extraordinary sales and record prices which have greatly contributed to Christie’s dominance in this category. She has been involved with a number of high profile sales including the rare Safavid ‘Vase’ carpets formerly in the collection of Alice de Rothschild in 2016 (over £2.3 million), the Pommersfelden silk and metal-thread Safavid ‘Polonaise’ rugs in 2019 (over £7.5 million), the Imperial Ming ‘Dragon’ carpet which broke a world auction record for a Chinese carpet in Paris in 2019 (6.8 million euros) and the Royal Indian Mughal fragment that broke a further record in 2022 (over £5.4 million). Louise has nurtured strong relationships with established and emerging collectors within her field and during her time as Head of Department, Christie’s now hold eight of the top ten auction records in this field.
Navid Molaaghaei is a Cataloguer in the Islamic and Indian Art and Rugs and Carpets departments at Christie's King Street. He joined the company in 2026 after working with arts from the Islamic world at the David Collection in Copenhagen, during and following his studies.
Navid obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Iranian Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Specialising in the art of the book and completing courses in art history as well as a curatorial internship at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, he wrote his thesis on the representations of female heroines in illustrated manuscripts of Firdawsi's 'Shahnama'.
He is fluent in Persian and has lived and travelled extensively across the Islamic world, including extended periods in Iran, Egypt, and Malaysia.
Phoebe joined the Islamic and Indian Art department in 2024. She holds a BA Oxon in European and Middle Eastern Languages (Spanish & Arabic). She works in both a coordination and cataloguing capacity within the department contributing to landmark sales such as Exceptional Paintings from the Personal Collection of Prince & Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan.