Rooms, by Style
Ten decorating registers, and the canvas that belongs in each. Every room here is a real scene from our own library, with a real piece from the collection it links to.
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The Traditional Room.
Deep colour on the wall, carved wood, brass that has been polished for years. A room with this much of its own voice does not want a quiet picture - it wants one from the same tradition, hung where the eye already goes.
Shown - Shrinathji standing with two attendants, 30 x 30 in, floater frame
See the Pichwai collection +
Warm Minimal.
A plain warm wall, a low sideboard, and very little else. The whole room is built to give one thing your attention, so the piece has to be worth the attention - a single motif, drawn well, at a size that owns the wall above the furniture.
Shown - Pair of Elephants Facing Central Lotus, 30 x 30 in, floater frame
See the Lotus collection +
Modern Luxury.
Dark panelling, stone, a metallic somewhere. Gilt reads as material here rather than as decoration, and a piece with real gold in it stops looking like a print and starts looking like part of the joinery.
Shown - White peacock with trailing tail feathers, 30 x 40 in, floater frame
See the Jadau collection +
The Study.
Bookcases, lamplight, and a chair you actually sit in. Everything in this room rewards being looked at closely, which is the one condition under which miniature painting makes complete sense.
Shown - Prince and female attendants on a terrace, 30 x 40 in, classic frame
See the Miniature collection +
Coastal.
Pale walls, blue and white, light that comes off water rather than out of a bulb. Water on the wall doubles the light instead of competing with it.
Shown - Waterfall in a Sunlit Valley, 36 x 24 in, floater frame
See the Water collection +
Japandi.
Timber, paper, and restraint. One tree, one horizon, nothing that argues. The palette is already narrow, so the piece should widen it by a shade and no more.
Shown - Tree of Life beside a small pool of water, 30 x 30 in, floater frame
See the Forests collection +
Dark and Moody.
A dark wall is the hardest wall to hang. Anything pale floats off it and anything busy disappears into it. What works is a single figure with light of its own.
Shown - Black Panther on a Garden Terrace, 48 x 32 in, floater frame
See the Wildlife collection +
Mid-Century.
Teak, tapered legs, brass and a globe light. This room is already about remembered objects, so it takes a remembered object on the wall without any explanation.
Shown - Telegraph key on base plate, 30 x 30 in, classic frame
See the Retro collection +
Rustic.
Lime plaster, old stone, a table that has been repaired. Somewhere real, painted by someone who went there - a village, a ghat, a street with the wires still in it.
Shown - Himalayan Village with Prayer Flags, 36 x 24 in, floater frame
See the India Streets collection +
Minimal.
Nothing on the wall but the one thing. No pattern to fight, no colour to match, no furniture crowding underneath. A ridge line at the right size is the whole room.
Shown - Sunrise over rolling mountain ridges, 36 x 24 in, floater frame
See the Mountains collection +