Exquisite Wall Coverings from China

Exquisite Wall Coverings from China:
This compilation of beautiful wall coverings shows an exquisite range of Chinese influenced murals, featuring cherry blossomed landscapes, hummingbirds and butterflies, alongside large floral wall decals, and sophisticated fleur-de-li motif wallpapers. Some are renders but they still give you a pretty good idea of how they influence the mood of a room.


Nature imagery provides a perfect backdrop in any room of the house; appearing almost as a window to the outdoors when hung behind a dining set, and acting as a softening element when placed behind banks of entertainment equipment and newfangled TV units, in a modern living room.





Pictures of flowers or trees work particularly well as a serene boudoir theme, especially when depicted in soft brush stroke style.



A decal is a fabulously quick way to form an extension of the headboard in the bedroom, creating a larger vignette for extra impact.


These wow factor walls are the ideal way to add both color and interest to your interior design, with a large serving of artistic flair thrown in.



If you would rather keep your walls a little more abstract, these gorgeous flocked papers bring swathes of similar impact and grace, though demand slightly less attention, in their repetitive prints and more subtle palettes,


The elegant wallpaper designs work brilliantly in both contemporary and traditional settings, because despite their bold appearance, they manage to maintain a delicately refined air.

Via ruixi.tmall.com

Plated

Thanks so much to everyone who left good suggestions about my plates. I do have a large white ironstone platter with a green transfer-ware pattern on it that I could use for the centerpiece of the arrangement. The issue with the photoshopped images from my last post was that the scale wasn’t right. The plates ranged from six to twelve inches, but I hadn’t managed to scale them. There are also duplicates of two of the plates.I am hoping that in my travels next week, including a stop at Portobello Road, and Bermondsey Market, as well as some of the millions of charity shops, I might find several good examples of transferware to bring home. Lord knows, I am practically taking an empty suitcase (except for presents for everyone), so I will have room to schlep all of my treasures home. And you know you’ll see them on my Etsy shop, soon after.By the way, I do plan on doing some blogging while I am gone. I have a lot scheduled, including a trip to the school where I used to work to spend some time photographing the place with my soon-to-be new friend, Yonks. I am also meeting up with some other bloggers, some of whom I already know and some who will become new friends. I also want to attend the V&A exhibition of Cecil Beaton’s photographs of the Royal Family, taken from 1939 to 1968. I plan on taking a big memory card and an extra camera battery because I am certain I will be taking lots of pictures.

I’ve got a ton of stuff, both at home and at work, to do before I leave, but once I board the plane and take a handy-dandy Ambien, I will be on my way!

Bryan Batt Lecture

I wrote about Mad Man Bryan Batt’s lecture in Baltimore and I seem to have been the only person to do any PR on this event.  Mr. Batt is in Baltimore for a few days to buy for his shop, Hazelnut in New Orleans, and to promote his new book. The fantastic lecture he gave was so poorly attended, I was embarrassed for Mr. Batt. And I was annoyed at the staff at the American Crafts Council for not promoting it at all. In fact, the people at the check-in desk didn’t even know what we were talking about when we arrived – and the lecture was in a room right around the corner from where they were sitting.I think that if the lecture had been properly promoted, it would have been packed with fans of Mr. Batt’s talents in acting and design. He was funny, charming and even poignant. He talked about his formative years in New Orleans with a father who loved mid-century modern, and a mother who loved classical French.

One of the points he made, which is the same exact point I’d made in a fund-raising letter for the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, is that someone designed everything… the chair you’re sitting on, the walls around you, the device you’re reading this very blog on… Not all design is good, but someone, at some point, thought it was good enough to manufacture.

From the time he was a child, when his parents took him along to architects’ meetings while they were designing their house, to his shop in New Orleans, and his new book, Big, Easy Design, Mr. Batt has had an enduring love of good design.

He offered the group some tips on design, which included:

• If it looks right, it is right. Trust your eye, have things around you that you love.
• If it doesn’t fit, don’t force it. Don’t have things around that you don’t love!
• Every room should have either a point of departure or an anchor.
• Give your eye a place to rest… You don’t have to display everything you own.

I was so pleased to have a chance to chat with Mr. Batt after the lecture and he was lovely and gracious, and talked about his recent experience at Maison et Objet in Paris. He was even nice enough to take a picture with me, although I replaced the dull hotel wall with MY toile, the Toile de Baltimore.Thank you for a wonderful lecture, Mr. Batt!