V&A Shop Online
Search

0 item(s) in My Cart

  1. Home
  2. Shop By Theme
  3. Spring/Summer 2013
  4. East Meets West
  5. Luxury Goods from India: The Art of the Indian Cabinet-Maker

Luxury Goods from India: The Art of the Indian Cabinet-Maker

Luxury Goods from India: The Art of the Indian Cabinet-Maker

Luxury Goods from India: The Art of the Indian Cabinet-Maker

Item No.
60223

      • Product Description: Luxury Goods from India highlights key objects from the V&A's unrivalled collection of furniture and objets d'art from India and Sri Lanka. Many of these items of indigenous furniture are published here for the first time and provide a rare insight into the riches of the culture they represent. This book acknowledges the impact and demands of colonial power, by Portuguese, Dutch and British settlers from the late fifteenth century, over the Indian natives. The newcomers discovered to their surprise, rare articles of courtly furniture richly worked and inlaid with precious stones and gold. However there was no local furniture that suited the settlers' manner of living, so they commissioned extravagant pieces along European lines from native craftsmen, allowing them free rein with local materials. The resulting fusion of Western forms with Indian materials and decorative techniques gave rise to a wide range of luxury goods - cabinets, game-tables, painted boxes, ceremonial arms - that were breathtaking in their craftsmanship and widely prized in Europe, where they found their way into royal collections, ecclesiastical treasuries and stately houses. The fifty pieces in this volume, dating from the fifteenth to the late nineteenth century, demonstrate the diversity and skill of Indian craftsmanship and tell a fascinating story about the changing role of domestic objects and their use in the subcontinent. They illustrate the subtle interaction between European and Indian tastes and sensibilities, and chart the course of colonial patronage. Many pieces illustrated here have never been published before, and Amin Jaffer's scholarly yet accessible text throws new light on an astonishingly rich and largely unexplored tradition.

      • generic_text_8: Hardback
      • generic_text_3: Amin Jaffer
      • generic_text_7: 1851773819
      • generic_text_10: V&A Publishing
      • generic_text_5: 128
      • generic_text_6: 90 col 10 b/w
      • generic_text_2: 280 x 215mm
Not yet rated. Be the first to write a review
Buy Box
  2. Availability:
    In stock
  3. Availability:
    Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 days

Price:
£30.00
Customer Reviews

No reviews yet. Be the first to write a review

You might also like...

Loading the next set of items...

Select the previous set of items
Select the next set of items

We were unable to load the next set of items. Please Try again.

We were unable to load this set of items. Please view the previous set of items.