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Modern House of Antiques Welcome to Modern House of Antiques, based in England & New Delhi, India. We deal in antique and vintage artifacts from Europe and England.

Our team of experts travels across Europe to handpick the best items for your home and workspace.

Sometimes, a single object brings a whole festive evening back. A favourite bowl brought out for laddus, the centrepiece...
18/10/2026

Sometimes, a single object brings a whole festive evening back. A favourite bowl brought out for laddus, the centrepiece on your mother’s table, a vase filled with marigolds in the room where everyone gathered.

Year after year, these things become part of the occasion. We remember where they stood, who loved them, and how the house looked when the diyas were lit.

Perhaps that is why choosing something for our own homes at this time of year feels rather special. We are adding to a collection that will, in time, hold memories of our own.

With Diwali approaching, we find ourselves drawn to painted porcelain, rich floral details and touches of gold that catch the light. Beautiful pieces to bring out when everyone comes over, and enjoy long after the last diya has burned.

Whether you are choosing a gift or adding to a much-loved room, we would be delighted to help you find a piece that feels yours.

Explore our collection online, or join us for a browse at our Noida studio, by appointment.

Some evenings, you look around the room after everyone has gone and think how much you love being at home. The chairs ha...
16/10/2026

Some evenings, you look around the room after everyone has gone and think how much you love being at home. The chairs have been pulled a little closer, there are glasses still to collect, and you leave the lamps on for a while longer.

That is the feeling I have in mind when choosing things for the studio. I like to imagine where they might end up, what someone will place beside them, and how, after a few years, they will become so much a part of the room that it would feel strange without them.

There is such pleasure in allowing a home to come together gradually. You find a painting you cannot quite forget, bring home something from a holiday, move an old favourite to another corner. Your tastes change a little, but certain things stay. Eventually, you have a room full of things you would be rather sorry to part with.

And I do think there is room for a little grandeur amongst it all. Gilt looks lovely beside a faded fabric, and an elaborate piece can feel perfectly at ease in a room where people put their feet up.

This gilt metal mirror has that appeal for me. I love the sweep of its frame, the little flowers tucked amongst the scrolls, and the way the gold catches along the edges. I would be tempted to keep it on a console, somewhere I passed every day, catching a different glimpse of the room each time.

Sometimes I wonder if we can trace the beginnings of a whole room back to one thing we fell in love with. A particular s...
15/10/2026

Sometimes I wonder if we can trace the beginnings of a whole room back to one thing we fell in love with. A particular shade of blue, perhaps. You bring it home without quite knowing where it will go, and gradually other things find their way around it.

An old painting looks happier beside it. What began as a small indulgence becomes part of the way we see our home.

This is what I find so absorbing about collecting vintage and antiques. Your taste develops through living with things. You become drawn to certain colours, curious about a particular period, more confident in choosing something simply because you love it.

Wedgwood Jasperware belongs beautifully to this way of decorating. First developed in the eighteenth century, it brought the classical world into domestic rooms through pale figures, sculptural shapes and that wonderfully recognisable blue.
There is something rather lovely about its continued place in our homes, amongst furniture and paintings its earliest admirers could never have imagined.

A collection can give a room its own character, particularly when it has been allowed to grow with the person who lives there.

And it need never be finished. There is always another discovery to make, another unexpected pairing, another piece that reminds you how much pleasure there is in coming home.

On display at Modern House of Antiques Noida Studio.

The flowers are being rather extravagant, but I think the blue can take it.Dusty pink, pale blue and a little gold. I co...
14/10/2026

The flowers are being rather extravagant, but I think the blue can take it.

Dusty pink, pale blue and a little gold. I could quite happily build a room around these colours.

For all the elaborate gilt and classical figures, the arrangement feels surprisingly gentle. The plain wall gives everything space, and the flowers are loose enough to soften all those carefully drawn lines.

You could begin with just one piece in a room you already love. Move a picture, bring a favourite object out of the cabinet, see how they look beside one another. These small afternoons of rearranging can be such a pleasure.

Sometimes you end up sitting down a little earlier, simply because you’ve made a corner you want to enjoy.

The nicest compliment our home could receive might simply be, “This is so you.”Perhaps it is the picture you brought hom...
13/10/2026

The nicest compliment our home could receive might simply be, “This is so you.”

Perhaps it is the picture you brought home before knowing where to hang it. Or your fondness for gold frames, which has gradually become rather obvious. These little choices tell people something about you before you have said a word.

Looking at this gathering in the studio, I can imagine a very personal gallery wall beginning to shape. Birds, landscapes, portraits, blue skies beside deeper colours, an oval, with a row of rectangles. There is something wonderfully inviting about a mix that gives you a reason to look a little longer.

I would happily place these above a clean-lined console, with a generous lamp and a comfortable chair nearby. The old gold brings warmth; the faces and little details give the room its character.

And there is room to keep going. Move one picture, add another, bring a favourite from elsewhere in the house. Let the arrangement change as your eye does.

That is the pleasure of collecting for a home. Over time, you begin to recognise yourself in it.

Which would you bring home first—the portrait, the bird print, or that rather wonderful frame?

I have a weakness for a little grandeur in an otherwise comfortable room. A beautiful bust on an old console. Somewhere ...
30/09/2026

I have a weakness for a little grandeur in an otherwise comfortable room. A beautiful bust on an old console. Somewhere nearby, a slightly worn armchair that nobody would dream of replacing.

This beauty belongs in that sort of company.

With roses gathered into her hair and her eyes cast down, she has a lovely air of being lost in thought. There is so much to enjoy in the little details, especially the petals and leaves nestled amongst those sweeping waves of hair.

She brings a touch of that Grand Tour romance into the home. We can imagine her in a room shaped by a love of Europe, with warm colours, fine paintings and things gathered from around the world.

I love her pale silhouette and the way the eye is drawn to her face. There is a softness to her expression that makes you want to look a little longer, while a change of angle reveals another detail in her hair, another delicate fold of a petal.

For all her grandeur, she feels wonderfully easy to live with. The sort of piece you choose for her beauty, then grow fond of for her presence.

If you came into the studio, this is one I would pick up to show you. The pink would probably catch your eye first, but ...
29/09/2026

If you came into the studio, this is one I would pick up to show you. The pink would probably catch your eye first, but I would want you to see the flowers up close.

There is a lovely softness to them. Pink roses opening amongst little blue blossoms, white petals and green leaves, all gathered within curling gold borders. Against that rich raspberry colour, the bouquet feels wonderfully fresh.

It comes from Le Tallec, the celebrated Paris atelier known for decorating fine Limoges porcelain by hand. Imagine the white porcelain on a painter’s table, with the whole arrangement still to come.

The atelier’s artists built up their colours in stages, with firings between them. Looking at the finished piece, it is easy to forget how much patient work went into something that feels so joyful.

I love how comfortably it sits amongst the things we already love. You might expect a piece this ornate to need a rather grand setting, yet a few familiar things around it make it feel immediately at home. I can picture it on a sitting-room table, near a favourite chair, where the flowers can be enjoyed even when there are none in the garden.

It is one of the pleasures of bringing these pieces to the studio: choosing something for all its lovely details, then imagining the home it might become part of.

For now, it is here in Noida, keeping us rather lovely company. 💫

A bowl of lemons on the kitchen table, the first daffodils of the season, a length of yellow textile brought home withou...
22/09/2026

A bowl of lemons on the kitchen table, the first daffodils of the season, a length of yellow textile brought home without quite knowing what to do with it. I can understand how a fondness for a colour becomes a habit of collecting it.

Yellow is especially tempting in its softer shades. Butter, straw, primrose, ochre. Each suggests a slightly different room, from a cheerful breakfast corner to a sitting room with old wood, generous curtains and books within reach. I love how a small amount can draw the eye across a room, picking up a golden detail in a painting or a flower in the curtains.

These majolica plates have just that sort of yellow. Warm and buttery, with deeper honey tones tracing the leaves and a glossy surface that catches the daylight beautifully. The curling stems and finely branching veins give you a reason to come closer. Even the edges follow the uneven rhythm of a leaf.

There is a lovely history behind this affection for garden forms. Minton’s colourful glazed wares, exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, helped inspire the Victorian enthusiasm for majolica. Potters drew on the natural world, turning leaves, flowers and creatures into wonderfully inventive objects for the home. Looking at these plates, it is easy to understand the appeal of giving something as fleeting as a leaf a more lasting place in our lives.

I would love to see them on an old wooden dresser, where their colour could glow against the brown, with a few pieces of blue and white nearby. Or gathered on a pale green wall beside botanical pictures, their generous leaf shapes breaking up the straight lines of the frames. Cream linen, a faded rose print, perhaps a little wicker would all feel lovely in their company.

And once you have lived with a yellow like this, I suspect you begin noticing it elsewhere. In a flower at the market, the corner of an old painting, another piece of pottery that catches your eye.

Before long, you have a home that tells a little more of your story.

These lovely plates are now part of our curation at the Noida studio.

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I would happily take the long way home if it looked a little like this.Past the cottage, beneath those great leafy trees...
20/09/2026

I would happily take the long way home if it looked a little like this.

Past the cottage, beneath those great leafy trees, with the water beside me and a generous stretch of sky overhead. There is enough detail to imagine a whole evening here, and enough left unsaid to make it our own.

The Dutch landscape painters understood the appeal of familiar places. In the seventeenth century, artists gave remarkable attention to their own countryside: rivers, farm buildings, banks of trees and the changing weather. A great expanse of sky could lend grandeur to the simplest view. The beauty was already there; the pleasure was in noticing it.

That tradition comes to mind in this Dutch School landscape. Your eye first meets the dark and then the pale light along the horizon. I particularly love the blue between the clouds. It gives the whole scene a feeling of air and distance, as though the view continues well beyond its frame.

And what a lovely thing to bring into a room.

The greens and earthy browns sit beautifully over a wooden console, patterned fabrics and favourite pieces of porcelain. The gilded frame adds richness, while the countryside within keeps the mood wonderfully relaxed. Here, with pink flowers gathered in a large Herend Cache pot, the painting becomes part of a small domestic pleasure: arranging a corner simply because we enjoy looking at it.

A view you would like to return to, even on the most ordinary day.

Part of our latest curation at the Noida studio.

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Some days, coming home to a room full of things we love feels like just what we needed.A favourite painting, flowers ope...
17/09/2026

Some days, coming home to a room full of things we love feels like just what we needed.

A favourite painting, flowers opening in a jug, blue and white china catching the afternoon light. You chose each of them at different moments, yet together they become the place where you feel most yourself.

Perhaps that helps explain the renewed affection for layered interiors: patterned fabrics, old furniture, shelves of china and paintings gathered across a wall. What we now call curated maximalism has something of the generosity of a Victorian sitting room, with space for our own tastes and everyday lives.

Blue and white feels wonderfully at home here.

Its story reaches back through centuries of Chinese porcelain, admired and collected far beyond China. By the late eighteenth century, Staffordshire potters such as Spode were popularising blue transfer ware pottery, bringing intricate pictures into the rituals of domestic life. A plate could hold a landscape as well as a place at the dinner table.

And what lovely landscapes to live with. Look at these: a bridge to cross, a stretch of water, buildings beyond the trees. The little figures and grazing animals give the grand scenery a human scale. Your heart finds peace; your imagination take the walk, the weather, the afternoon.

I often think part of blue’s appeal lies in what it recalls. Open sky, distant hills, the changing colour of water. Here, those associations meet the intimacy of an object you can hold in your hands. A small view to enjoy on a day spent indoors.

Against warm furnishing, beside a gilt frame or amongst books, these pieces bring both richness and a feeling of freshness. Their shared colour lets different borders, shapes and scenes sit happily together, leaving room for the collection to grow.

You might begin with the landscape you would most like to step into. Then enjoy finding a place for it in the home you already love.

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[Blue and White China, Staffordshire Pottery, Transferware pottery, Curated Maximalism, Collected Interiors, Antique Plates, English Interiors]

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