The Chinoiserie Console Table

 

Chelsea House Hand Painted Gold Leaf Chinoiserie Console Table

This is a stunning chinoiserie piece perfect for an entryway, dining room, or living room. It retails for over $4,000.

Lanai Inspiration and an eBay Find

Don Easterling

As part of my exterior painting project, the lanai will be painted inside and out and the ceiling will be painted haint blue. 

Blue and White

Ellen Kavanaugh - Southern Home

 Lots of great inspiration here for styling a console with blue and white, chinoiserie, Palm Beach, tropical, island style. Palm fronds from the garden make beautiful floral arrangements in blue and white Chinese vases. A pair of large ginger jars adds drama. I saw birds like these at HomeGoods last week.

 I especially like the sea fans in the wicker handbag. I got a beautiful collection of sea fans at HomeGoods yesterday and this is a fun idea for displaying them - I have a large collection of wicker handbags that would be perfect. Many of my wicker handbags are vintage Kate Spade that I love.

This Basket is Having a Moment

Caroline Gidiere

This basket is having a moment for sure, but I think it's becoming a classic for beach house decor and beyond. I am thinking of getting one myself.

It can be used for anything you choose and never looks more chic to me than under a console table.

Use it for beach towels, media components, books, laundry, toys, blankets, shoes, pillows, in a mud room, dog toys - the list is endless. It is wonderful to add an organic and textural element to a spot. I love the way it pairs with Chinoiserie and with blue and white. Here are interior designers going mad over this "it" basket.

BTW, it looks like the Beachcomber from Pottery Barn. Other versions I have seen all look to me like cheap knockoffs.

Pottery Barn Beachcomber

A follower just emailed me that some of the baskets are from Mainly Baskets Home and are slightly different from the PB. They both come in various shapes and sizes.

Mainly Baskets Home

Mark Sikes

Shelley Johnstone Paschke

Summer Thornton

Scale

Fun House Furnishings

Scale always fascinates me in interior design. I am sure many of you will hate this as out of proportion. Others will see it as fun and modern. This massive basket with a tiny oomph console.

I love playing with scale in interior design. It always involves a bit of risk and daring. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.

Do you like this?

I think most people would prefer this Summer Thornton design below, including me.

Summer Thornton

The baskets are virtually identical and the lamps and Chinoiserie wallpaper are quite similar. The styling of the Summer Thornton is so much nicer though. In the Fun House Furnishings, the lamp cords are visible (at least hide them for the photo shoot), and I don't like that unfortunate little plant and those two white sticks - are those candlesticks without candles? I also think those lamps are anorexic and sort of creepy they are so tall (too tall) and skinny.

The Chinoiserie Entryway

Melissa Rufty

This stunning entryway was in the New Orleans show house Southern Style Now - sponsored by Traditional Home. The wonderful Chinoiserie fretwork console takes center stage. A very eclectic mix here.

The Chinoiserie Dining Room

Pinterest

A perfect spot for a collection of blue and white Chinese porcelain is beneath a dining room console table whether with or without a bottom shelf.

A Chinoiserie Vignette

Pinterest

A gorgeous Chinoiserie vignette with blue and white Chinese porcelain, Asian art, x benches, and a very chic console table.

Saturday Inspiration - Pink & Blue

Caitlin Wilson

A lovely combination of blue grasscloth on the walls, a brass console table, a soft pink ginger jar, and double gourd vase. The rug echoes the pink and blue.

Lucite & Chinoiserie

Neiman Marcus

Lucite and Chinoiserie go so well together - here is a great combination of black walls, lucite console, a wonderful pair of ginger jars, and some chic modern styling.

Sunday Inspiration - Styling the Chinoiserie Console

From the very talented Jamie Meares of Furbish, inspiration on styling the Chinoiserie console. Love the red, white and blue, the blue and white Chinese porcelain, the chevron tray, and the Moroccan rug. I have been looking for a room with Chinoiserie and a Moroccan rug and here it is.

Mid Century Console Tables - Copy That Look

Vanessa De Vargas

Gideon Mendelson

LIV Vintage - buy it here