The Johnston Collection | ANOTHER LOOK | WILLIAM JOHNSTON: His Residence & Collection

The Johnston Collection | ANOTHER LOOK | WILLIAM JOHNSTON: His Residence & Collection presents the sumptuous Green Drawing Room as a grand Indian-inspired Durbar room.
After exhausting his sources in England, antique dealer William Johnston turned his sights and travels to India, and especially Calcutta, which became his favourite place to replenish his shop stock.
Of the many significant items Johnston acquired, the Durbar room includes the splendid ‘salon suite’ purchased from the sale of vice-regal furniture from Government House, Calcutta (now known as Raj Bhavan, Kolkata).
A concept to create a sumptuous Indian-inspired ‘Durbar Room’ was proposed when the museum first opened in 1990. This room, which became known as The Green Drawing Room, is a stunning formal reception space in which to display a gentleman’s collection.
ANOTHER LOOK also re-presentS the original arrangement of William Johnston’s collection in Fairhall whilst the exhibition continueS to explore one of the themes underpinning The Johnston Collection, that ‘Old is New’.

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