There are no boundaries and no rules really when it comes to designing interiors, only guidelines that should always remain both flexible and practical. And, if it is for yourself, then its decoration must come from the heart.

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Chinese ceramics became known to the wider world from the Tang Dynasty (618- 907) onward; the word ‘China’ eventually became the generic name for porcelain

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Italian adventurer, Marco Polo, perpetuated the western predilection for exotic goods in the European mind from early in the thirteenth century. He related fascinating stories about visiting a far off luxurious land called Cathay.

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One of of the most enduring shows on television since the end of 70’s is about antiques and art. It’s all about finding out if an object is a valuable antique or a worthless copy from someone able to decode its message and decipher the truth about its authenticity and origins.

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This is the starting segment for our course of study the evolution of western art, design, style and culture antiquity until today. It is surveyed in chronological order from antiquity to the contemporary age with respect to intellectual and philosophical ideas, other cultural influences and social change.

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Marco Polo said….let us now…travel into Cathay, so.. you may learn something of its grandeurs and… treasures… inspiring the notion at the turn of the fourteenth century China was a land, unlike any other; an idea that found fertile ground in the imagination of western people. We survey Chinese ceramics including those of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) when the most splendid wares made for the Imperial Court, as well as the more exacting home markets of China, attracted connoisseurs and collectors, especially Imperial yellow monochromes.

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