Behind Reinhold Messner, the great mountaineer, our portal in cedar wood from an old wooden mosque dating back to the early 19th century. This portal comes from a village in the Kohistan region, a high Swat valley in Northern Pakistan, at the foot of the Hindu-Kush mountain range. Kandahar, in the guise of its owner Andrea Gracis, has donated part […]

At the dawn of a freezing but very bright day, we arrive at the Afghan border in our irreplaceable “Volkswagen Beetle”. We enter legendary Aghanistan after having crossed Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. October 1970. That was the start of our endless voyage towards the discovery of the East. We reach the city of Kandahar, the cultural capital of the […]

“Never, in any of the antique shops in London, Zurich, Paris or in the Asian capitals, have I found such quality as I did in Kandahar’s warehouses”. It is with these words that Reinhold Messner presents the book “Kandahar, story of a passion”, attesting to the excellence and emphasizing the spirit with which the company called Kandahar has worked over […]

The business is based in Faè di Longarone, in the province of Beluno, Italy, and has been importing fine pieces of furniture since 1976. His “Kandahar ” has set up a room in the Messner Museum in Brunico From Cadore to the East, and back. That is how, for Andrea Gracis, his passion became a commercial enterprise, with his Kandahar […]