Blue and White Chinese Garden Stools

Palm Beach Home of Danielle Rollins and Tom D'Agostino

Blue and white Chinese garden stools are such a classic. I love using them indoors and in the garden. I also love a pair flanking the front door as shown here. 

A Gorgeous Garden Stool

Silvie Garden Stool

 

I'll bet most everyone reading this has at least one blue and white Chinese garden stool. I have many at CCC both indoors and outdoors. I have found a new one that really is an especially lovely example.

Palm Beach Style & Yellow

Cathy Kincaid Interiors

This Palm Beach inspired dining room is from a Kips Bay Dallas Show House. I think it is a wonderful example of how well yellow works with blue and white Chinese porcelain. The millwork is beautiful as are the gorgeous plaster palm trees. The palm trees were created by one of Dallas' oldest plasterwork companies. The walls are stenciled.

The Blue and White Chinoiserie Bathroom

Jonathan Adler - Elle Decor

This bathroom is in fashion maven Liz Lange's Palm Beach home. It is filled with great ideas to add blue and white chinoiserie chic style to your own bathroom.

A Great Idea

Serena & Lily

Serena & Lily posted this outdoor shower on Instagram featuring their Capri Fouta Beach Towel and a blue and white garden stool.

Chinoiserie in the Garden

Danielle Rollins - Luxe Magazine

The photo above is the Palm Beach home of Danielle Rollins and fiancé Tom D'Agostino featuring their darling goldendoodle Henry. It features lots of blue and white Chinese porcelain.

The Blue and White Chinoiserie Bathroom

Folding Chair Design

 

I love a blue and white bathroom and even better when it has a blue and white Chinese garden stool. The wallpaper is Schumacher's Square Dance along with classic white subway tile. The brass accents too are such a classic.

And a blue and white chinoiserie vignette in my bathroom.

CCC

Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren

 Check out all the blue and white Chinese porcelain in this pool house in the RL Bedford, New York home. There are blue and white Chinese porcelain lamps, a garden stool, an orchid planter, and even for firewood. The beams are 16th century Belgian pine and the mantel is 17th century French limestone. I love the basket filled with coral as well.

Vintage Chinoiserie Inspiration

Architectural Digest

 

This photo was on the cover of Architectural Digest in November/December 1975. Is it Tony Duquette? I love the parasols, the elephant, the Chinese garden stool, and the rattan chairs. It has quite a modern vibe.

The parasols bring to mind this Charlotte Moss Kips Bay 1995 room with its Chinoiserie parasol bed.

Charlotte Moss

Chinoiserie Outdoors

Ballard Designs

 This porch has great inspiration for bringing chinoiserie touches into your outdoor living spaces - blue and white Chinese porcelain, a Chinese garden stool, and Greek key pillows. Wicker trunks serve as a coffee table and are great for storage. I really like the striped outdoor curtains. That floor lamp looks really out of place and dated IMO.

Blue and White

Alessandra Branca

A lovely blue and white room by Alessandra Branca with a modern Ming coffee table, a blue and white Chinese garden stool, wicker, blue velvet, and a wonderful large framed photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Listri. I really like the button tufted back on the wicker settee. I also love that tray.

Alessandra almost always uses lampshades in colors, most often her signature red. Here in blue. It always strikes me as more suited to a child's room - I am more of a purist with white or ivory personally, unless it is wicker or raffia or the like. Just a personal preference. What do you think?

Bold Beautiful Color

Katie Ridder - House Beautiful

 I love this dramatic room - tangerine walls, a corner tufted banquette covered in an exuberant chintz, a unique Chinese garden stool, a gold ceiling, a striking green rug, and a beautifully detailed roman shade. 

The day went perfectly yesterday - I have a beautiful new Frame TV and a great sound system. I will post more details and pics tomorrow. I am taking the day off and chilling.

Here is a sneak peek - 

My Favorite Living Room

Bunny Williams & John Rosselli

I have posted hundreds of living rooms in the years I have been doing Chinoiserie Chic, but none do I love more than this one, Bunny Williams and John Rosselli's Punta Cana home. I would love to share more photos of this room.

There are so many elements here I will use in my living room and home in general. Lots of blue and white Chinese porcelain including Chinese garden stools, ginger jars, vases, lamps, and cachepots. Pagodas. Elephants. Palm fronds as floral arrangements. Potted orchids. Painted ceilings. Neutral walls and floors. Books. British Colonial style. Ceiling fans. Sea shells. Slipper chairs. Animal decor. Tropical. Collections. Timeless.

This room makes me happy. I believe Mark Sikes said this is the most beautiful living room in the world. I must agree. It certainly embraces the style I would love to capture in my new tropical Chinoiserie home. What do you think?

The Chinoiserie Dressing Room

Danielle Rollins - Veranda

This post is a real favorite of mine. Some of you may recall that in my home in Alexandria, Virginia, I had converted a bedroom into a walk-in closet and it was pink - I color matched the walls to a Thomas Pink shopping bag.

Thomas Pink

Alas, I unfortunately do not have a spare room to convert here in Florida, but I do have a walk-in closet with ten foot ceilings and built-ins that works just fine.

I am loving the idea of a gallery wall in my closet. The Danielle Rollins dressing room is absolutely stunning. I love it all - the coral pink, the Chinese Chippendale casegoods turned into a wardrobe, the slipper chair, the gallery wall, and that monogrammed tote. The straw tote is from Nantucket Monogram & Design, but I don't see it on their website - I hope it is still available.

Danielle color matched the walls to a sadly now discontinued Estee Lauder lipstick "Princess Grace," a gorgeous coral pink. I wish I had purchased a bunch when they came out with it. It is a great color!

In the shots below you can see a vintage wicker and faux bamboo pagoda chandelier, a Chinese garden stool, and a pair of mirrored chests placed back to back topped with plywood, Chinoiserie fabric, and glass.

 My goal this weekend is a gallery wall in my closet and styling it. Stay tuned. This has really motivated me. Mine will be far less luxe, but this is wonderful inspiration.

Models at a Beach - Loise Dahl-Wolfe

Here is a sneak peek - my earring drawer -

The Chinoiserie Bathroom

Creative Tonic

Lavender grasscloth walls and ceiling and a lavender Chinese garden stool mix with marble, brass, modern art, and a Louis mirror in this very chic bathroom.

Reboot

Amy Berry

A bit of news - I am back to posting starting today (I promise) after a truly awful couple of months. I had complications from eye surgery, my 15 year old 10 pound pup was attacked by an off leash German Shepherd, and I have decided not to move to Florida. I was hours from signing the listing agreement on my house and realized it was a big mistake. Everyone is on the mend.

P.S. I also just realized that I was not getting notices of comments to moderate and have hundreds awaiting moderation. Yikes and sorry!

P.P.S. I think I should clarify that Florida was not the mistake. I never shared on the blog that my husband dropped dead of a heart attack in 2017. He came home saying he was getting a cold and went to lie down and never woke up. I later started dating someone who wanted to move to Florida and it seemed like a nice fresh start for me and I fell in love with Sarasota and the house, but he turned out to be a hot mess. So he is moving into the Sarasota house, thankfully I am not.

A great foyer here - love the skirted table, the Chinese gourd lamp, the blue and white Chinese porcelain, and the Chinese garden stool.

White on White Chinoiserie

palmbeachregency

A white fretwork dresser and a white faux bamboo pineapple mirror with white Chinese garden stool and white pagoda lanterns in this chic vignette.

Blue and White

Phoebe Howard

A blue and white room in a Palm Beach home with blue and white Chinese porcelain.

The Chinoiserie Living Room

Veranda

Lovely use of blue and white Chinese porcelain in this living room.

Blue and White

Gary Shano - 2017 Hampton Designer Showhouse

Wonderful use of blue and white Chinoiserie in a covered porch.