See It In Battersea In January At The Decorative Fair… Continuing our oriental saga… (Also see our last post on the Interior Design Diary) Gardens: The Georgian landscape garden was already home to Greek temples and Gothic ruins and Chinese bridges, pagodas or summer houses were happily accommodated. Western interpretations of these architectural wonders were [...]
Posts in ‘2009’
The Full Story On Chinoiserie… Part One
“As Seen At Your Local Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair” Key Periods in the Development of Chinoiserie Style in the West – How Taste Travelled In the first decades of the 17th century, English and Italian and, later, other craftsmen began to draw freely from forms found on cabinets, porcelain vessels, and embroideries imported from China. [...]
Chinoiserie Style At Londons Favourite Interior Decorating Antique & Textile Fair
Key Chinoiserie Style Elements: Every Thing You Wanted To Know… The Exotic: China as a far away place featuring exotic characters, themes, legends, landscapes full of fanciful pavilions, fabulous creatures such as rare birds and fish, and unusual plants such as bamboo Dragons: the most exotic of all the above elements Architecture: the sweeping lines [...]
All That Glitters Is Gold At The Next Decorative Antiques fair
Add A Glimmer of Gold to Cheer Your Decorating Scheme This Winter … The editor of World of Interiors, Rupert Thomas, introduces the magazine’s December issue by reminding us of the importance of gold throughout history, how “it has always conveyed authority, prestige and power” and that our fascination with it “continues to be reflected [...]
A Wallpapered Marquee? Check The Best Interior Design Show…
Decorative Fair Goes East In January 2010 (in London’s South West Battersea Park!) The January 2010 Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair’s foyer with it’s eastern flavours, will be designed by Anglo-Oriental Antiques (see previous Antiques & Interior Design Diary news) and will be decorated using wallpapers kindly supplied by Zoffany. How you wallpaper a marquee [...]
House & Garden Magazine Recommends Antlers
Interior Design Tip in December’s House & Garden magazine – Antlers ‘au naturel’ House & Garden has gone mad about antler-inspired furniture in their December issue, pairing it with natural hides and sheepskins, and softly-textured woollen rugs and floorcoverings. The combination looks very cosy!. Items made with antlers have been around for a very long [...]
Winter Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair Theme Announced
Pagodas & Pavilions: Eastern Influences on British Design At The January Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair Now we know… (drum roll…) on the 19th to 24th January 2010 at The Marquee in Battersea Park (London SW11) at London’s favourite event for unusual interior design, The Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair will once again splash out [...]
Decorative Fair Organiser Speaks!
Decorative Antique & Textile Fair ~ Strength To Strength As planning is underway for the first 2010 Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair (watch this space… news of the theme for the January 2010 antiques show lobby is coming soon..) we’re looking at the last (autumn) antique fair results and happy to report that the vast [...]
Interior Decor Name Dropping At The Decorative Fair
Just A Quick Bit Of Antique/Interior Design Gossip… Trade buyers seen visiting the Autumn Decorative & Antifair included UK Decorators Lady Henrietta Spencer Churchill, Annabel Elliot (the Duchess of Cornwall’s sister), Paolo Moschino at Nicholas Haslam and Colefax & Fowler.
Strong Sales for Decorated & Painted Furniture, Accessories and “Impulse Purchases Buoyant”
The Autumn 2009 Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair Review The Autumnal sunshine brought an excellent gate to the most recent staging of the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair, held in The Marquee, Battersea Park London from 29 September to 4 October. Opening day visitor numbers were yet again higher than ever, and sales were strong. Many exhibitors [...]
