MOSCOW (REUTERS).- Europe’s largest antiques association catered for the Russian elite on their home turf for the first time this week, banking on the growing sophistication of the country’s super-rich to rapidly increase demand. The London-based LAPADA, which unites top British and several international antiques dealers, presented 12 pieces to Moscow’s champagne-quaffing crowd in the British ambassador’s lavish embankment residence. “Russia has been an important market for antiques for the last 10 years. The main reason we came now is the strong market,” said LAPADA chief executive Sarah Percy-Davis, as she surveyed the goods, which included billiard tables and a model aeroplane made of copper. The most expensive piece to go on display was a mirrored 19th century cabinet, which was decorated with facades of European cathedrals, and had a price tag