Just a ten-minute amble from the utilitarian whirligig of the recent Frieze London 2024, we discovered an altogether more cordial art happening. Rajan Bijlani – who for the last two decades has amassed a collection of some 500 pieces of Pierre Jeanneret furniture from Chandigarh, the city formed in 1947 by India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and masterminded by Le Corbusier – has opened a show, working with co-curators Truls Blaasmo and Michael Jefferson, which unites six artists of South Asian origin at his home, the historic London townhouse of Fonthill Pottery.
