Framing a wall…

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Wall maps

Antique map in framed segments….

House Beautiful Oct. ’08

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Stephen Sills

Dwellings with Style

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Stephen Shubel

Designer’s Paris apartment

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Stephen Shubel in Paris

Various French flea market finds, multiple mirrors

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Stephen Shubel in San Francisco…

Flea market find of framed vintage collars

Trouvais framed antique French letters

My own collection of antique French letters framed

and grouped into a set of 9 over an antique console…

When I’m not dreaming of the 18th century…

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I’m trying to figure out what color to paint my office walls. They are several shades

of blue on paneling. Love the yellow and cream Ballroom Stripe curtains. The

up to date desk has nifty features like a flip down key board drawer with segregated

storage. Love the mirror, painted it “zinc” and added a finial…set high enough for me

to imagine that its perched on a mansard roof line in Paris…the view out adjacent

windows is awash in morning sunshine, blessed by occasionally pink sunsets

over the surrounding hills…

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The great thing about baskets is that they have a “meant to do that” look about them,

even if purchased over several years. Gray boxes with labels from The Container Store…

fraught with organizational possibilities. Binders above were throw outs my sister covered with

wrapping map and script paper. Black ribbon reads French to me.

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Gathered up all my galvanized tin…it’s always easier on the eye to repeat containers

and all the odds and end can grouped. Sneaking in gratuitous shot of my daughter

Since she never looks at my blog (rolls eyes) this ought not to bother her…

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Comfortable chair in the corner by the bookcase…

Carolyn Quartermaine

Was thinking of adding a bit of Carolyn Quartermaine script to the back of the

desk chairs…anything but white to the front…

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Love the black, cream, white, gold, gray, yellow…

Post that most feels like the direction I’d like to go is Stephen Shubel in Paris here

I’m also seriously considering a gray toned French limestone floor…

and a multi framed sepia Turgo Plan de Paris map à la Pigtown Design here

Further discussed by Little Augury here

Amethyst…

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My very own proud eggplant…

Iris Palladia Varigata in background…

Flowering kale, which are beautiful as low ornamentals for the

winter garden, or long stemmed in a vase with other foliage…

Walls painted in Ralph Lauren’s Silver City Suede SU60

Tufted back Somerville sofa George Smith sofa

George Smith on sale at One Kings Lane here

Violet cashmere throw from Calvin Klein Home

Faux horse leg bench from John Rosselli

Designer Susan Ferrier

House Beautiful Jan. ’09

French embroidered linen dyed deep amethyst

Contented cattle and purple sage in Normandy…

vintage House and Garden magazine…

Punctuation points…

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Floriferus gardens dwindle down…

even stalwarts like roses slow…

the lavender has been shorn..

Fall Japanese anenomes cast their last nod over the nepata…

And then the garden is all about outline and

punctuation points…

Love round shapes in the garden…

Mop top trees and shrubs…balls of myrtle

This is geometry taken to the extreme in a Russell Page garden…

I really like dwarf English boxwood.

Like pearls, they can trim a row, cluster in corners

with their larger boxwood cousins

or criss cross an open stone court like

in this Normandy garden…

Symmetry and shape are the elements that keep place

in the garden until the riot of flowers return…

My garden shot in the spring over the top of the grape arbor…

I like to group boxwood in different sizes, also use

conical shapes like foreground right…

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One of the most respected of garden designers was Russell Page

Flip through his book here to plan a new garden

or dream your way into spring…

The Gardens of Russell Page

Imperfection…

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An untidy, lavender littered corner of my kitchen…

I was pulling last year’s crop off the top of the china

cabinet and it looked so charming I haven’t had the heart

to pick it up yet.

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Additional photos of last Sunday’s Antiques by the Bay flea

market. All photos of Atelier de Campagne‘s booth…

Trouvais Flea Market Belgian grain sacks

Quantity of Belgian grain sacks…

Think these were 2 for $80…

Trouvais Flea market

A reader, Jenny C., who was also at the flea market last Sunday,

advised that in addition to Alameda, “Trinidad has a booth

year-round at Center Street Antiques in Soquel “, that the

succulents were from his own garden, that his website is here

Thanks again, Jenny!

poterie set of 3Anduze pots & house Atelier de Campagne

Sign up to receive notice of their container sales…

To see a video of their last one click below…

Atelier de Campagne sale

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Imperfection can be just so sublime…

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French Country Living

Caroline Clifton-Mogg