The New French Decor…Living with Timeless Objects
Michèle Lalande and Gilles Trillard
From my 18th century Amusements post here
Ladies’ Pocket Memorandum post here
From my parent’s pool house…
really should be called an Orangerie considering
the enormous skylights, French doors, and slate floor
have been hosting flats of my sister’s heirloom seeds
the last few weeks…
Detail view of Jacques Callot’s etchings for
Combat at the Barrier c. 1627
Entrance of Monsieur le Comte Brionne
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The art of reproducing incredible
antique grisaille wallpaper….
Silver-thread bobbin lace on c. 1740 stomacher…
Decorative V shaped panels that cover front of bodice…
Seventeenth and eighteenth-century Fashion in Detail
Avril Hart and Susan North
Cote de Paris
June/Aug ’09
Throwing a bit of ink into neutrals…
and glint…
Shelf in my office…
Voyage en Chine tan and black toile by Old World Weavers…
Antique etching from old Italian vellum book in an Italian gold leaf
frame, pillows made from antique priest’s vestments. A few yards
of historical fabric completely transforms a simple bed…
Tom Landry in New Orleans
House Beautiful? please remind me….
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