THE FUSE

There is a concept that Greg Foster, Artistic Director of Jaipur Rugs and its smaller, rarefied gallery for collectible carpets, Aspura, often returns to when describing the territory in which he operates: 'I have a theory that most people with a passion for beautiful objects follow a similar trajectory of taste. It begins with fashion. From there, interests often move quickly into culture, probably contemporary art. After that, the eye moves to design, then collectible design, followed by antique furniture and antiquities. The final frontier of connoisseurship is carpets. Once someone has seen everything, knows the names, recognises all the references and feels excited by them, that’s when they begin to look at carpets differently. And it’s a whole world of education! Carpets represent the most rarefied sphere of design.'