Posts from ‘December, 2009’

See It In Battersea In January At The Decorative Fair…
Continuing our oriental saga… (Also see our last post on the Interior Design Diary)
Gardens: The Georgian landscape garden was already home to Greek temples and Gothic ruins and Chinese bridges, pagodas or summer houses were happily accommodated. Western interpretations of these architectural wonders were not in [...]

“As Seen At Your Local Decorative Antiques & Textiles Fair”
Key Periods in the Development of Chinoiserie Style in the West – How Taste Travelled
In the first decades of the 17th century, English and Italian and, later, other craftsmen began to draw freely from forms found on cabinets, porcelain vessels, and embroideries imported from China. Small quantities [...]

Key Chinoiserie Style Elements: Every Thing You Wanted To Know…

The Exotic: China as a far away place featuring exotic characters, themes, legends, landscapes full of fanciful pavilions, fabulous creatures such as rare birds and fish, and unusual plants such as bamboo
Dragons: the most exotic of all the above elements
Architecture: the sweeping lines of pagoda roofs [...]

Add A Glimmer of Gold to Cheer Your Decorating Scheme This Winter
… The editor of World of Interiors, Rupert Thomas, introduces the magazine’s December issue by reminding us of the importance of gold throughout history, how “it has always conveyed authority, prestige and power” and that our fascination with it “continues to be reflected in [...]