Chinoiserie Chic: Polyvore

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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Art-Filled & Feminine Chinoiserie

Jamie Meares

Today is the last day to enter The Pink Pagoda's contest on Polyvore called "Art-Filled & Feminine" and your chance to win a $500 gift card from Horchow. These are some favorite spaces of mine that reflect this style as well as my entries in the contest.

Mario Buatta

Domino - Keith Irvine

Joe Nye

Chinoiserie Chic Art-Filled & Feminine Foyer

Chinoiserie Chic Art-Filled & Feminine Atrium

Chinoiserie Chic Art-Filled & Feminine Living Room

Chinoiserie Chic Art-Filled & Feminine Office

Chinoiserie Chic Art-Filled & Feminine Dining Room

Chinoiserie Chic Art-Filled & Feminine Bedroom

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Can Black Be Girly?

This week we are looking at the feminine side of Chinoiserie. In fashion, I think everyone will agree that there is nothing more feminine than the little black dress, yet this is not the perception in interior design. We tend to think of rooms with black walls as modern, urban, moody, and somber.

Yesterday, The Pink Pagoda posted on this room below by Leslie Pritchard. Check out the black walls with lots of pink and loads of Chinoiserie. Not the least bit masculine, right? It motivated me to create this board above for The Pink Pagoda's Polyvore contest - "Art-Filled & Feminine." I hope you have entered to win a $500 gift card from Horchow - you can enter as many boards as you wish. Jennifer featured my board today on The Pink Pagoda as well.

I have also included more examples of feminine rooms with black walls. This has me rethinking black walls - just add pops of color and Chinoiserie!

Leslie Pritchard

Vogue

via vmacandcheese

via Cape cod Collegiate

via Singularesmag

Architectural Digest

via Desire to Inspire

via the Decorista

Lonny

via crazywildgirl

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Feminine Chinoiserie Lighting

Unfortunately, this gorgeous vintage palm chandelier has sold on Etsy, but it is a great example of what you can do with a can of hot pink spray paint!

This week we are looking at the feminine side of Chinoiserie. Yesterday, my new Ideabook on Chinoiserie Lighting was featured on the Homepage of Houzz. You can see it here. Here are some more great feminine Chinoiserie lighting ideas and inspiration boards.

Speaking of the feminine side of interior design, I hope you have joined Polyvore and have entered The Pink Pagoda's contest called "Art-Filled & Feminine" here.

You can follow me on Polyvore here and join my new Polyvore Chinoiserie Chic group here.

Vintage Chinoiserie lamps with pink lampshades

Pink Chevron Lamp

Chinoiserie lamp with pink Hillary Thomas finial

Hilary Thomas finial in 3 sizes and many colors

Flamingo Beaded Chandelier

Dana Gibson Pantheon Lamp in Pink

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The Feminine Gallery Wall

Traditional Home

Please don't imagine that the gallery wall works only in modern or boho homes. The gallery wall works beautifully with all kinds of styles including traditional and feminine as this example above demonstrates. What an amazing idea to give these traditional engravings a modern feel by overlapping them. Today we will be looking at gallery walls with a feminine bent as part of our series on feminine spaces.

This may give you inspiration in your own home and to stop by and enter The Pink Pagoda's design board contest on "Art-Filled and Feminine" here.

You can find lots of examples on my Pinterest Board on The Gallery Wall here.

Great gallery walls are popping up in shops too - J.Crew and Kate spade stores often have wonderful ones.