Shopping at Ainsworth-Noah

A few weeks ago, I spent a blissful hour wandering through the Ainsworth-Noah showroom at ADAC while pining over most of what I saw. (In ca...

Perfection

This 1936 photo of a cocktail room stopped me dead in my tracks. (Yes, we can just stop the post right here. A cocktail room . How utterly f...

Harrison Howard Has Been Hard at Work

My favorite painter of Chinoiserie scenes, Harrison Howard , has just updated his site with new works including one of my favorites, "T...

Chinese Scenic Paper

As of late, some of the most popular handpainted wallpapers seem to be those bird, flower, and tree prints by de Gournay (see above) and Gra...

In a Chinoiserie State of Mind

I certainly do not need any reminders that Chinoiserie is my favorite style. Still, I couldn't help but notice that it has been on my m...

The Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm

As I'm traveling this week, I wanted to leave you with something beautiful and felt that these images would fit the bill. Here is the C...

The Architecture of Joy

I just spent the weekend reading Chinoiseries by Bernd H. Dams and Andrew Zega (Rizzoli New York, 2008), a book which has generated a great...