It is with great sadness that HALI has learned that the Far East’s most important and enthusiastic collector of antique tribal and village rugs, Ben Fernandes, died in Singapore on 25 January 2016 at the age of 82, following a long illness. Ben’s Mountain Looms private exhibition gallery became a must-visit location for rug-aware visitors… Read more »
Three North African highlights from the recent Gros & Delettrez sale in Paris.
Artcurial’s second auction in Paris dedicated exclusively to Scandinavian design features three noteworthy 20th-century Swedish carpets.
‘Kongo: Power and Majesty’ at the Metropolitan Museum tells the little known story of the earliest encounters between expansionary western trading powers and the kingdoms of the Central African coast.
‘Esthétiques de l’Amour: Sibérie extreme-orientale’ at Musée du quai Branly, Paris is showing decorative art from far eastern Siberia to 17 January 2016
The sale of over 400 lots includes Himalayan paintings and bronzes, Indian miniature painting, Islamic ceramics and metalwork as well as a wealth of textiles.
From 11th November – 20 March 2016, The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents ‘Art of the Zo: Textiles from Myanmar, India, and Bangladesh’, an exhibition of woven Chin textiles
The Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art reopens at the V&A on Wednesday 4th November 2015 following refurbishment and a renewal of sponsorship.
‘Colour and Space’, an exhibition of carpets and textiles, will be on show at the private gallery of HALI Contributing Editor Thomas Cole until 11 December 2015.
Subtitled ‘Treasures of Wool and Silk’, the November sale includes 209 lots of overall very high quality drawn from across the chronological and geographic spectrum of carpet weaving in the Eurasian rug belt.
