Michael S. Smith

Michael S. Smith - Architectural Digest

Luxe Chinoiserie elements such as a Coromandel screen, cloisonné vases,  a Chinese Chippendale chair,  bamboo furniture, and antique Chinese wallpaper add tremendously to the elegance and sophistication of this lovely home by Michael S. Smith.

Buffalo Checks and Chinoiserie

Manuel Canovas

 I have always loved combining stripes and Chinoiserie, but lately the notion of buffalo checks and Chinoiserie has been on my mind. It is fresh, graphic, modern, yet traditional. Interior designers love it too, as you can see.

I've even created a Buffalo Checks and Chinoiserie board on Pinterest you can follow.

Blue and white buffalo checks and Chinoiserie

Southern Living

Michael Smith

Bunny Williams

Gideon Mendelson

Gideon Mendelson

Meg Braff

Mark Sikes

CurtainsMade4U has a great selection of buffalo check fabrics - design your curtains online in 3 easy steps and they will be shipped to your door in 3 - 4 weeks.

Fretwork Cocktail Table High/Low

Michael S. Smith Peking Cocktail Table for Baker $2,720

LIV Vintage Fretwork Cocktail Table $225 - there are also matching end tables

The Green Chinoiserie Daybed

Michael Smith

Perfect for a bedroom, a sitting room, or the living room. This would be wonderful for a studio apartment where it could double as a bed at night and a sofa by day.

Buffalo Checks and Chinoiserie

Michael Smith

Isn't the combination of buffalo checks and Chinoiserie a great look? Here are some wonderful examples. CurtainsMade4U has an excellent selection of buffalo check fabrics for custom curtains that will arrive at your door with free shipping in 3 - 4 weeks.

Bunny Williams

Gideon Mendelson

Gideon Mendelson

Michael Smith Powder Room

In this powder room by Michael Smith featured in House Beautiful, he uses Shanghai Deco by Clarence House in red.

Michael Smith

I love how the formality of the Chinese ancestor portraits and the Chinoiserie cabinets are made more casual by the choice of the Cowtan and Tout Eaton Check fabric. The living room is by Michael Smith, as featured in House Beautiful.

Chinoiserie Chic Returns with Michael Smith

After dozens of emails and comments decrying my decision to abandon Chinoiserie in favor of the boring, bland and banal Belgian look, I have reconsidered. One follower wrote that she was in tears all day, another is planning an intervention, another an exorcism, and another has suggested house arrest. Trust me, I have not been drinking the Kool-Aid-it was just my April Fool's version of a design War of the Worlds. I am pleased to announce that on Chinoserie Chic, de Gournay has defeated dumpster decor. Let's look today at a California home by Michael Smith. Don't miss the Chinese ancestor portraits and Chinoiserie cabinets in the living room juxtaposed against the red check curtains, the master bedroom with its de Gournay walls, celadon lamps, and garden stool, and the powder room wallpapered in Clarence House Shanghai Deco.

(Photos courtesy of House Beautiful)