Mansi Rao: Dining tables on streets and carpets on floors – A study of vernacular furniture in north-west India
Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way, London, United KingdomThe South Asia Collection Museum in Norwich,UK has over 250 vernacular furniture items and related objects from north-west India. When it came to representing these objects, available research was scarce. Emerging from this museological need of contextualising the collection, a collaborative project, ‘Vernacular Furniture of North-West India’ was conducted with the Design Innovation and…