Decorative Antiques Indian Style

Antiques & Interiors Diary Wonders…

Having spent some time in India last week, both in the northern cities and in the more tropical south (where the Portuguese influence is strong in architecture and design in the old colonial ports especially), I was wondering just how much of the Indian decorative style had enterered the European interior design world over the last 300 years. The style is both distinctive and attractive.

And the antique furniture and artefacts and textiles themselves?  Have the pieces been imported in what volume – as well as the style for home manufacture? I will be told by those who are in the know and I will come back on this.  There have been many pieces at the Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair and there will be some at the next Antiques fair starting next week, no doubt…

PS Being stuck in Dubai, I’m also wondering if any of our overseas visitors will be able to fly into London for the antique fair starting on Tuesday…  (It’s quite surreal being in the East and finding that a volcano in Iceland can affect air travel home and disrupt things in little old Blighty!)