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 BEDOUIN AT THE DECORATIVE ANTIQUES FAIR
THIS is the second year that Chris Thornton of Bedouin in Sussex has exhibited at October Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair in Battersea Park, London UK.
Over a hundred standholders include the likes of Jane Walton's garden antiques and Augustus Brandt's upmarket woodwork. This year the fair has no dateline, which adds rather than detracts to the melee of goods on offer, most of which were antique, some decidedly repro, and some designer shabby chic - but then, hey, who's counting? This show is for designers and dealers not collectors.
The fair has a small exhibition of wallpapers from 1560 to the present, from the archives of Cole & Son, which is well worth a look. It explains why the Brits lagged behind the French at the turn of the 19th century due to a wallpaper tax which lasted from 1712 to 1836. There are examples of papers made by Edward Crace and designed by Pugin for the new Palace of Westminster in 1840. And did you know that Harry Potter invented the rotary wallpaper printing machine in Darwen Lancashire, and patented on 9th December 1839.
Chris Thornton has family connections in Sri Lanka, including a tea plantation - 'It's tiny, only fifty acres, not enough tea to export,' he says - and it was his frequent visits and the Sri Lankan's quality of architectural design and their antiques which gave him the idea of dabbling in the first place. 'The Portuguese got there in the sixteenth century, then the Dutch took over and then the Brits,' Chris said, 'but the Sri Lankan's themselves have always seemed to have a good design sense and adapted to western styles like 1930's art deco minimalist with ease.'
On the Bedouin stand, brought from Sri Lanka are a Gents railway station clock from (£2,200 plus £600 to get working, from Colombo), a very old bronze and iron oil lamp, a frail termite-ridden buddha remnant, a Matisse-like carved granite group of two heads of indeterminate age but old (£875), and some nice furniture. English stuff includes an iron lattice window (£950) and some big thick glass lead-acid battery tanks (£250ea). There is also has an antique Congolese chaise-longue covered in leather, probably from an African exotic animal.
[Photo shows Chris feeling a table while a prospective trade buyer looks on
The Fair is on till Sunday 10 October
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