Made For The Maharajas - A Design Diary Of Princely India by Amin Jaffer

Made for Maharajas, A Design Diary of Princely India explores the fascination among Indian royalty for western luxury goods. This taste reached its peak at the height of the British Raj -1857-1947-, when Indian rulers began travelling to Europe and remodelled their lives along western lines.Commissioning architects to design palaces in modern or historic styles, purchasing fleets of cars and ordering their family jewels to be reset by the most skilled London and Paris goldsmiths of the day, Indian princes established themselves as the new creative patrons of European high design.