The Decorative Antiques and Textiles Winter Fair in London’s Battersea Park is in full swing, with 150 exhibitors putting a huge variety of items on display. In the upstairs mezzanine the gloriously colourful world of LARTA, the London Antique Rug & Textile Fair, spreads out its wares. Pictured here is Joss Graham, whose gallery is ‘just around the corner’ in Eccleston Street. Behind him is a brocaded wool tent divider from eastern Anatolia, and if you stop by he will tell you its origins and use, and how the colour panels were a status symbol.
Cornucopia has also laid out its attractive wares on the mezzanine. The most recent title on its bookstall is The Palace Lady’s Summerhouse and other inside stories from a vanishing Turkey by Patricia Daunt, a handsome book of her articles in Cornucopia from the past 25 years, with an introduction by John Julius Norwich. Ziyaret Tepe: Exploring the Anatolian frontier of the Assyrian Empire is anothger recnt title, while the last remaining copies of Berrin Torolsan’s beautiful At Home in Turkey must be a collector’s first edition.
The fair ends on Sunday, January 28.
