SILK – a name that in the West imagination always conveyed a sense of exotic mystery, sensuous pleasures and luxuries: an intricate interplay of colourful threads matched in a sophisticated and sublime aesthetic.

However, the ROAD was indeed a pathway for trade that linked different cultures, enriching lives, crafts and arts from the Mediterranean to the far side lands of Asia.

Silk travelled to the West as the pragmatic Chinese traded it for “the heavenly horses” of Central Asia and with it they also exported a number of world-changing Chinese innovations like paper, print and even gunpowder.

This process was not unilateral and along with trading came back a bounty of far distant influences – especially in the Tang times- in which exchange in language, music, dance, decorative arts from Central Asia and far away Persia made of the Tang capital Chang’ An [1] the most cosmopolitan multi-ethnic and multi-religion capital the world has ever seen.

By comparison our pride of a modern globalization with its exchange of cheap goods, universal and ubiquitous luxury brands and an enforcement of a shallow monoculture, seam pale and almost ludicrous.

This collection, wants to give a glimpse of that past interconnectedness that could be easily incorporated in everyone’s daily living. The faded beauty of most of these artifacts give an extraordinary sense of contemporaneity and everlasting beauty to fit well in every home.