The Chinoiserie Living Room

Shelley Johnstone Paschke - Traditional Home

A pair of lucite and brass tables are used here in lieu of a coffee table styled with blue and white Chinese porcelain in this lovely home in Lake Forest, Illinois where I grew up.

Chinoiserie Outdoors

Shelley Johnstone Design

Gorgeous color and Chinoiserie in the garden - pagoda hurricanes, blue and white Chinese porcelain, and fuchsia cushions.

Saturday Inspiration

On Thursday I posted on the lounge and powder room that Shelley Johnstone Paschke created for the 2013 Lake Forest Showhouse.  This is the entryway she designed for the 2011 Lake Forest Showhouse. The wallpaper is a favorite of mine, Farrow and Ball's Lotus. The bottom two pictures show this wallpaper used in two other rooms I have posted on. Note how in all three rooms this wallpaper is combined with Chinese porcelain.

Ryan Korban

Charleston Dining Room

A Gorgeous Chinoiserie Powder Room

Having grown up in Lake Forest, Illinois, its great homes are still to me the most beautiful anywhere. The stage for the 15th biennial Lake Forest Showhouse was an Italian Renaissance 15,000 square foot estate designed in 1916 by famed architect David Adler.

Interior designer Shelley Johnstone Paschke designed the lounge and powder room. The lounge walls are lacquered in Farrow and Ball Saxon Green and are trimmed in gold. The ceiling is painted in faux malachite. Note the ivory silk curtains trimmed in Samuel and Sons Greek key, the Oscar de la Renta Zeus chair with tiger silk velvet, the sisal carpet, rustic baskets, lucite console, and antique Chinese export jars.

In the powder room area, she has papered the walls in Farrow & Ball Acanthus. I love the lucite stand with the blue and white Chinese jar and the starburst chandelier. All in all, a wonderful mix of many of my favorite elements.

Photos courtesy of Veranda.