Showing posts with label Fornasetti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fornasetti. Show all posts

Saturday, October 8, 2011

I'm seeing shells...

 A Fornasetti tray...
(via 1stDibs, please click images to be directed to their source)

A pair of Maison Jansen eglomise wall plaques...
(via 1stDibs)

A Pair of Italian 19th century grotto chairs...
(via 1stDibs)

Flight & Barr Worcester porcelain with shell decoration...
(via Christie's)

A Tony Duquette Splashing Water chandelier sold at Bonham's, LA

Thursday, August 11, 2011

My new purchase

While visiting one of my favorite antiques malls in Charleston, 17 South, I discovered this fantastic tole tray with decoupaged classical busts and insects. The tray appears to be an authentic Victorian tole tray that received a new decorative treatment in the 1960s...


The back has a large dragonfly and is signed "Alice H. Balterman" who worked in Cincinnati, Ohio. I'm completely in love with it and want to have a stand made for it so it can be used as a cocktail table.

The style of the tray reminds me a lot of Fornasetti...
such as this trompe l'oeil tray...

Classical busts were common decorative motifs used by Fornasetti such as this amazing umbrella stand...

It even reminds me of this custom Fornasetti decoupaged chest with lithographic classical images. It is dated 1962 and sold for over $85,000 during a 2oth Century Decorative Arts sale at Christie's in 2010...

Decoupage was also popular in the 19th century as seen in this mid-19th century Spanish chest...

and also this 19th century New England architect's table which is completely covered in  images...

Even Elsie de Wolfe loved decoupaged decorative arts...
as seen in her bed which was decorated by Tony Duquette with 18th century floral engravings and lithographs for her home "After All." He also completed a matching secretary, which is just out of the frame of the photograph to the right.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Some rooms I love...

 Over the last few months I've been collecting some photographs of my favorite rooms while I've been looking through some of my favorite blogs. 
Take a look...

 
The MOST amazing dining room in Marcelo Lucini's apartment.
I'm obsessed with the color, and the gilt chairs are fantastic. 

Ever since my best friend painted her bedroom black, I've become enamored with black walls... especially with a huge gilt mirror.
via here

Loving the black walls and the collection of portraits... 

Completely in love. 
Wouldn't change a thing.

Not only do I just love this as a photograph, but I love it as an actual bedroom. The draping of the fabric is a work of art in itself.

A room by Jonathan Adler... 
the chandelier, the portrait, the bust, the orange chair, and the turquoise? 
Fantastic.
via Elle Decor

...and I just saw this apartment today on one of my favorite blogs, The Neo Lifestyle
I'm completely obsessed with it. I've never seen an entire apartment and thought, "ok, I could live here without changing a thing."

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Fornasetti, an Obsession

 
 I've been lusting after this book for months now... when I finally purchase it I know I'm going to have to block out a solid week to stay in my apartment and read every page... also, the fact that it is covered in faux malachite doesn't hurt either.

 
I've been meaning to amass an umbrella collection so I have a legitimate excuse to purchase this "Ruins" umbrella stand...

 
...and I'm definitely going to need my entrance hall or bathroom covered in this Cole & Son faux malachite Fornasetti wallpaper.

 
Amazing... and if it couldn't get better...

 
...when I saw the "Panoplies" secretary I realized I'm missing part of my soul... I have to be united with this piece of furniture.

I absolutely love these panels...

 
...and a desk covered in guns and keys? So incredible.
 
 
As much as I love the "Ruins" umbrella stand... I'm starting to think I'd give my left hand for this one.

 My own meager collection... expansion in progress. 

Monday, January 31, 2011

Things I Need NOW

 I love this antique harp case from Jayson Home & Garden an amazing online home store with the greatest new and vintage furniture...

 and this awesome little black bird from 1st Dibs...

 and I can't really imagine a more amazing mirror than this Fornasetti faux malachite and Greek key mirror...

if I can't have a live peacock, then I could definitely learn to be happy with this taxidermied one instead...

 and I could always make room for a gilt serpent... especially when there are two in twined around a convex mirror...


and I still haven't recovered from Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz's antique wallpapers... she had a similar grisaille panel in her WAS booth as this French 19th century panel made by J. Dufour that I found on this amazing blog.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Zebra

The most fabulous wallpaper by Scalamandre. 

and an amazing 1940s French settee upholstered in zebra hide. Could it get any better?

 Love the zebra rug in this room and the brass library sconces by Circa Lighting

Another amazing piece by Fornasetti

 and I love this image of a zebra rug hanging from the balcony of this New Orleans town house from one of my favorite blogs

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Blackamoors

Blackamoors on the porch of the Plumb-Bronson House, circa 1865



 Blackamoors in the Paris home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, 1939

 The Moro chair, designed by Piero Fornasetti, 1955