Seeing Red
White villas, like thickly iced wedding cakes, stand along the broad, leafy avenues in the quietly posh London district of Maida Vale. Behind the placid façade of one of them, John Eskenazi and his family live enveloped by the color red. A private dealer in Indian sculpture, Eskenazi is also a curator, author and publisher (as founding partner of the Art Newspaper). And he is a collector of early silk velvets, of which deep, rich crimson is a prominent feature.A quick tour of the house, with Lila, the family’s boxer-Labrador cross, leading the way, reveals that rare Ottoman and Italian silk velvets dating from the 15th to the 18th century hang in every room. In fact, these three-dimensional works of art, of which Eskenazi owns nearly two dozen, are the only decorations on the walls, from the footand-a-half-high panel featuring tulips on a square column in the basil-scented kitchen below to the 44-by-20-inch, 16th-century Italian velvet hanging covered with swirling vines
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