Anglo-Indian conversation bench
This two-seat sofa has two three-quarter offset backrests. They are gondola shaped, i.e. curved, enveloping and round. This sofa is named « conversation bench » because its particular design is intended to favour the conversation of two people. The low central element connecting the backrests has no support: it is supposed to prevent a third person from…
Pair of folding armchairs
These identical folding chairs can be considered very symbolic of the art of living in Goa, the former Portuguese colony located on the west coast of India, 400 kilometres south of Bombay (Mumbai). Each of them rests on six moving feet – forming three pairs – with tawny-clawed endings encircling a ball. These feet are…
Lavilépi is a blog written by Thierry-Nicolas Tchakaloff, honorary curator of the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design of the Indian Ocean (MADOI). It aims at sharing – through short contextualised studies – works of art from private collections, coming from encounters between Western, Chinese, Indian, Islamic, African, Oceanian, Inuit, Amerindian civilizations …
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