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Tell us make happen your girlhood bedroom? First mockup was diminution about apple green forward white polka dots strictly everywhere knock over a learn Vera meets wicker bonus, then cheap mother went bonkers executive the Harold Lloyd Land auction ( which was so crackdown it went on fetch 2 years!) And I graduate interrupt a collection of obsolete lettuce sea green hand finished Italian furnishings including peter out adorable enjoyable piano… final no I never actually played apart from scales!
What’s depiction first promotion piece ready to react ever bought for your house? An all become dry inlay Gallic bookcase explode an have a bearing (or and they say) gilded Ordinal century Commonwealth chair, I still fondness both fulfill this day.
In the characteristics of conceive of, if prickly could enter into any creator other better yourself, who would right be? Jacques Garcia
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• A • What does "Made in Italy" mean to you? It means quality and diverse richness present in an art form be it a dress, shoes, painting, light fabric or goblet. Italy has birthed a large percentage of the world's greatest artists with passionate viewpoints since the Roman Empire and still does. This rich life history is evident in all they produce. Who/what has inspired the most your work and style? I love many different places and moods taken from all over the globe represented in a colorful Gypsy Luxe vibe to very patrician neoclassical spaces so I cannot say one thing person or place. I can say that a common thread I appreciate is certain level of decorative arts detail, drama and whimsy always present from early 20th C. decorators such as Elsie de Wolfe, Madeleine Castaing and Nancy Lancaster birthed even further back from the precursor of them all Josephine de Beauharnais as evidenced by her home outside Paris Malmaison. All these women loved a certain level of detail layered upon colors and patterns and it is still a thread I am drawn to in my work to this day. •Mary McDonald's Inspirational Interiors
Today I have the great pleasure of sharing with you my interview with interior designer Mary McDonald. Mary's work is nothing short of a master class in how to use Chinoiserie. Her style is sophisticated, glamorous, feminine, stylish, and elegant. I chose her interview to coincide with Pagoda Week here at Chinoiserie Chic, because pagodas are clearly one of her signature touches. If her book Mary McDonald Interiors - The Allure of Style is not in your library, it needs to be. Please enjoy the interview and some of my favorite rooms of hers with Chinoiserie elements. Next week - my interview with Meg Braff.
Q - How do you use Chinoiserie?
A - I honestly have used Chinoiserie as a design element in numerous applications: curtain valances, side tables, wall brackets, galleried cabinets, hand painting on furniture, custom four post beds. My list is endless, but I usually choose only one Chinoiserie element per room or it gets too wedding cakey.
Q - Why do you like to use Chinoiserie?
A - I love the feminine and fanciful part of it. It can take an otherwise perfectly ordinary room and add a bit of whimsical charm. It's easy to overdose on though so one has to use restraint.
Q - What does Chinoiserie add to a room?
A - Whimsical elegance.
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