Tents provide beauty and practicality

By Juliana Wallace

When form and function meet, great things happen. Katherine Hudson, creative director of Arabian Tent Co., East Sussex, U.K., says her company’s Eastern-style tents are popular because they are both beautiful and versatile.

“The tents are a fusion of Eastern beauty and Western practicality,” Hudson says. “I travel to India once a year to design, source and make the tent interiors and coordinating furniture. The exteriors are from a U.S. manufacturer and the frames are made in the U.K.” Hudson says this gives the tents the best of all worlds — sumptuous, stunning interiors coupled with 100 percent waterproof, wipe-clean exteriors on tents that can be installed almost anywhere.

Hudson quotes Oscar Wilde: “Beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.” She adds: “Quite simply, beauty — whether it be in a landscape, picture or face — inspires people. Being surrounded by a beautiful velvet room covered in cushions and sofas that silently invite you to sit down onthem instantly inspires and relaxes people.”

Juliana Wallace is the editor of InTents.