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antique jewelry, Architectural salvage, Astier de Villatte, Big Daddy's Antiques, Chateau Sonoma, Flea Market Style, French curiosities, French design, Wisteria
It’s a wonderful time of the year to visit our favorite small shops that have
put their all into gathering the best stock, reworking their stores, and
decorating their windows. I can always count on finding something
special at Chateau Sonoma, in Northern California, as well as being
inspired by the lovely assembled vignettes. In a cozy back room a bed
is topped with boughs, an angelic duo pulling aside the drapery that
falls below the crown, the bed tumbled with homespun pillows.
A 19th century French scrapbook’s pages were copied and used to paper the
front window display in sepia tones, touches of gilding on frames and book bindings…
More of the charming “wallpaper” alongside a c. 1890 French Opera House puppet theater,
and beneath one of several hunter’s trophy plaques.
Gorgeous selection or antique jewelry
Hand and rose of carved ivory…
click here to see rest of jewelry
This Saturday Chateau Sonoma will host an antique jewelry show from 10:30-6:00
…enjoy champagne and holiday desserts
while exploring wonderful antique jewelry brought
to you by Elizabeth Dmitrova and Michael Howard.
You’ll notice our very own fellow blogger Ulla Milbrath
from Ullabenulla here
A rustic thatched child’s chair set atop a table
nestling a nest and eggs…
I found out today that store owner Sarah Anderson just had a baby boy!
Congratulations Sarah, I’m sure he will be speaking French in no time!
My latest Chateau Sonoma “souvenir” …
a cloth lined stenciled burlap satchel… messenger styles were also
available…perfect for storing my favorite textile bundles between
monthly flea market forays
A large 19th century zinc statue alcove ensconced between fir and flower
off the gravel courtyard behind the store…
along with finials, canoes, rusty urns and Tunisian grates…
I realized later that the zinc alcove had subliminally influenced me to purchase the
Wisteria cross shadowbox. Wisteria’s book boxes (aqua above) are remarkably like the
very expensive faded vintage French flea market paperback bundles. I’ve been very
impressed by the quality of many of Wisteria’s items, and so grateful for an alternative to
the higher priced and out of reach vintage French flea market treasures.
I just brought both my Wisteria zinc table and iron birdcage indoors
for the winter. I’ll be sewing a canvas cover for the birdcage like this
one from Big Daddy’s Antiques (wish me luck!)
“Big Daddy” (Shane Brown) will be making his monthly trek
to the Alameda Flea Market this Sunday. His site at the flea
market is always the most gorgeous and most crowded. He brings
plants to plop in his urns, sets up rooms beneath his tents with
crystal empire chandeliers, rough Belgian linen upholstered
bergere chairs, medicine jars and books lining his bookshelves,
architectural iron reworked into lamp bases or consoles,
industrial carts and bins. If you’re going to the flea market, check
out his great website and let him know if you want him to pop
one more thing on the truck for you.
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Do report on making the tent cover! I am finally going to finish the “top coat” of upholstery in my bedroom. First the cotton duck on the walls, and then drapes of duck over the walls. But nothing that requires the finesse of the angled tenting! Good luck.
Don’t scare me!
Trish… I love the branches over the bed canopy… and the shadows on the wall from the branches. Great photos… I particularly love the drapery over the bird cages and the zinc alcoves.
I agree, the tenting is amazing… I have not seen one before now.
Lee
Well…if disaster strikes I can always just buy one from Big Daddy. We’ll see how adroit I am with my old sewing machine.
Trish, I hope someday you will show us photos of your home- I know it must be incredibly beautiful as you have the most exquisite taste.
Hi Mimi. You are too kind! Just for you I added a “My home” category to group those posts (look under “found” category cloud on top of sidebar). Have several projects planned for the start of the year so will have more to show. And then when my baby goes off to college next fall I will really focus on pulling this 1939 fixer upper together.
I like the wallpaper idea from the first two photos, and would love to see more of the room with the puppet theatre.
Thanks for your comment on the interview with Greet today!
Bon week-end!!
A peek at Chateau Sonoma is always a delight and I wish you happy and successful foraging at the flea market this weekend. Absolutely love your birdcage! ~ don’t fear the cover ~ you can do it. I would suggest that you cut and sew a mock-up in a very inexpensive and easy to work with fabric first ~ then fine tune that and take then take it apart and use that as your final pattern. If you get the pieces right, sewing it up will be a cinch. Have a wonderful weekend! ~jermaine~
Trish,
I have red a lot of Chateau Sonoma the last few months! It really seems that there are real treasures to discover!
Beautiful!!!
Thank you for your sweet comment on the interview on the Garvinweasel blog!
xx
Greet
omg omg omg omg – i am dying, it is sooooooooooooooo gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Way too much eye candy for this time of the morning. Hey Ulla was there how fabulous
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