Chinoiserie Chic: Susan Brown

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Chinoiserie Trunk Show Tomorrow

Artist Susan Brown will be having a trunk show tomorrow, Saturday, October 13th from 12-5 pm at:

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Gift Store
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, California 93101
(805) 963-4364

Items for sale will include furniture, pillows, soaps, serapes, prints, and painted screens. The theme "East Meets West" will include lots of Chinoiserie items perfect for your home and for holiday gift giving. Stop by and say hello from me.

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Chinoiserie Trunk Shows

Artist Susan Brown, who sells her beautiful Chinoiserie, Bohemian, and abstract art in her Etsy store here, will soon be starting a tour of trunk shows selling products not found on her website. Entitled "East Meets West," it will have a strong Chinoiserie aesthetic.

Next Saturday, October 13th, from 12 - 5 pm, she will be showing at -

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art Gift Store
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, California 93101
(805) 963-4364

Some of the items include furniture, pillows, soaps, cards, serapes, prints, and painted screens. Start your Christmas shopping with a visit to her trunk show.

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Pink and Blue Chinoiserie

Joe Nye

I absolutely adore the combination of pink and blue with Chinoiserie. Here are rooms that do it beautifully and some ideas for using this look in your own home. Note the use by many of the interior designers of gold, black, animal prints, and modern art to keep it formal and adult and not too twee.

Joe Nye

Mary McDonald

Ruthie Sommers

Jamie Meares

Ashley Whittaker

The Pink Pagoda

Jonathan Berger

Anna Baskin Lattimore

My Kitchen The One Room Challenge

The Bedroom My I'm a Giant Challenge Dollhouse

The Pink Pagoda

Susan Brown

CurtainsMade4U

The Pink Pagoda

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Modern Art in My Living Room

Originally my living room had only one oil painting above the sofa, pictured below. As you know, I have become enamored with the combination of abstract modern art and Chinoiserie and have started adding modern pieces to my home. In my living room, I had switched out the traditional painting with a Helen Frankenthaler Lincoln Center giclee after seeing these rooms below by Mario Buatta and Eileen Kathryn Boyd.

But the gallery wall in my kitchen One Room Challenge gave me the idea of turning this area into a grouping of abstract art as well. I first turned to my very talented sponsor - artist Susan Brown of the Etsy shop Bohemian Romance to create this lovely abstract on the bottom right picking up the blue, turquoise, pink, green, and yellow in the room. I love it. Her Etsy store is filled with stunning Chinoiserie art and abstracts. I then added this very chic Louis Vuitton inspired piece on the top right (yesterday) by Etsy artist Jennifer Latimer of Gilded Mint. My daughter is a fashion stylist and the two of us are wild about her art, much of it inspired by collections by fashion designers like Chanel, Prada, Louis Vuitton and Missoni. I am now on the hunt for a piece to add on the left.

I also have very exciting news about my daughter's apartment. Before the painters had even finished, she had a request for a photo shoot of her place next week. We are now madly trying to get the entire redecorating project slated for a couple of months done in one week! Insane. Full details and a reveal next week of her apartment if we are both still alive.