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You are here: Home / Decor / Anglo-Indian Country Style

Anglo-Indian Country Style

November 13, 2011 by Jane F 6 Comments

Anglo-Indian style - wall stencil of figs in a decorative bowl in an Indian home - WOI via Atticmag A rustic Anglo-Indian style house features inspiring wall stencils, patterned floors and vivid color.

When magazines tried to launch a Honeysuckle pink wall-color trend last year it fell flat.  But pink is always around in some form and nowhere does it look more natural than in this time-worn 400-year-old Anglo-Indian style house in Rajasthan. There, British-born designer Bronywn Latif, who decorated the guest bungalows on India’s Glenburn Tea Estate,  has created an eccentric and very personal décor that mixes some English-style furniture with Indian motifs and materials.

Anglo-Indian style - pink and white entry doors in a house in Rajasthan- WOI via AtticmagThe entry boasts the type of chippy paint we love on a set of double doors. Overhead, in a niche, sits a statue of Ganesh, the Indian Lord of Success and destroyer of evil, who has an elephant head on a human body. Entry floors are composed of Indian cement tiles arranged in rug-like patterns with lively borders.

Anglo-Indian style - two-story entry hall in an Indian house with pattern tile floors - WOI via AtticmagThe two-story entry hall houses a green-painted English style console that looks to be straight out of a contemporary kitchen and reminds me of 1940s jadeite classic dishware hues. Those were often displayed in opposing colors such as pink and green. The companion mirror to the console echoes the shape of the shallow niche on the upper balcony wall that frames a graceful stencil of wisteria branches.

Anglo-Indian style - bubble gum pink kitchen in an Indian house in Rajasthan - WOI via AtticmagLike so many kitchens in country houses, this one has basic fixtures like the twin sinks, an old-fashioned range and open built-ins below the counters. Painting all the surfaces in bubble gum  epoxy with a shiny finish makes it so blinkingly vibrant that details blend.

Anglo-Indian style - bright pink kitchen with a green and white pattern tile floor in an Indian house - WOI via AtticmagThe wall color is almost overwhelming until you notice the dark green and white chevron pattern of the kitchen floor done in Indian-made cement tiles – an unexpected balance for those walls. This type matte tile was widely used for flooring during the 19th century in England and America in  a great variety of banded patterns that are just being rediscovered. The English-style hutch [left] is Indian made.

Anglo-Indian style - breakfast room in an Indian house with food stencils on the walls - WOI via AtticmagThe leitmotif of the house is to be found in the breakfast room, where stencils of food such as the bowl of figs [top] were inspired by designs in the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. Painted in the white area above the colored dado they seem to float in the space much the same way forms tend to do on wall decoration painted during the Roman era in Pompeii.

Anglo-Indian style - a wall in the Fruit Room of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey - flick via AtticmagThe Fruit Room of Ahmet III in Topkapi has elaborate decoration, including bowls of fruit in the bottom row of panels.

Anglo-Indian style - corner of an Indian dining room with wall stencils -WOI via AtticmagIn a corner of the dining room, there are more fruit and floral stencil designs in the Jaipur-pink dado. These motifs are taken from a rug. The elaborate Venetian mirror hanging nearby the native bamboo chair reflects the wisteria stencil on the balcony of this extraordinary house.

(Sources: WOI, flickr/twiga_swala)

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Filed Under: Decor Tagged With: Anglo-Indian country house, Anglo-Indian Style, Atticmag, Bronwyn Latif, cement tile, Glenburn Tea Estate, hand-painted stencilled walls, patterned cement tile floors, rustic Indian style, vivid pink walls, World of Interiors

Comments

  1. mbwife says

    November 14, 2011 at 8:16 am

    amazing spaces! Yeah, honeysuckle went absolutely nowhere didn’t it?

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  2. Lundy Wilder--Villa Lagoon Tile says

    November 14, 2011 at 9:03 am

    Shopping Editor Allison Arnett may be surprised to know that here in her home state of Alabama, Dave and I sell cement tile very similar to the Indian variety to clients all over the world. We sought it out originally as the perfect beach house flooring with personality, and now we have multiple fabricators and can make just about any design or colors. We even keep some in stock here in Gulf Shores.
    Additionally I recently saw a very good video on the making of Indian Athangudi tiles.

    http://awayofseeingarchitecture.blogspot.com/2010/01/athangudi-tiles.html

    The only real difference in the Indian method and ours is the use of a hydraulic press on the tiles before they are removed from the mold.

    Anyway, thanks for a great post and spreading the news about this wonderful flooring.

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  3. Jane F says

    November 14, 2011 at 10:18 am

    Hello Lundy,

    Allison is not the author of this post, I am. I live in New York so I have no idea what’s sold in Alabama. I did, however, google cement tiles in the course of putting the post together and your company did not come up. It might be useful for you to check into that.

    Actually the tiles used in this house are Bikaner, made in Rajasthan. I didn’t include that because it’s a detail that would likely be of interest only to someone in the trade.

    But I do appreciate your thoughtful comment and the link to the tile manufacturing. I visited your site briefly and your tiles look to be equally beautiful as the ones in the house. And how great to be able to source something made in the U.S.

    Many years ago, I owned a 19th century house which had a lovely cement tile patterned floor in the foyer. It was similar to many we see today in historic homes. It’s wonderful to be able to recreate them and I believe we’ll be seeing more of this as pattern is returning.

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