Posts under ‘Oriental Interiors’

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 [...]

If You’re A Fan Of Chinoiserie & The Oriental Then…
As you’d know by now, if you read the Antiques & Interior Design Diary, the lobby theme for the January 2010 antiques fair in Battersea Park is Chinoiserie – to give it the full spiel “Pagodas & Pavilions: Eastern Influences on British Design”. 

So it would be obvious, [...]

More on Western Techniques for an Eastern Look – Japanning and Tôleware
 
Japanning is a technique developed in Britain in the last quarter of the 17th century which aimed to imitate the much sought after oriental lacquer which was being imported from the East.
Lacquer is made from layers of tree resin which is allowed to harden [...]

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 not in [...]

“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. Small quantities [...]

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 of pagoda roofs [...]

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 remains [...]

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 [...]