Robert Allen "Jessica" Swiss Hand-printed Vintage Chintz. I mean, has anyone been to the Robert Allen showroom lately? Jessica must be a 1965 vintage because that place looks like a W Hotel and this brings to mind Cowtan & Tout. Though I love me some floral stripe glazed chintz it's really about the color combo -- aqua + blue + gold + canary yellow on a peach-y cream field next to pink and red crackly-coral stripes -- so unexpected and the polar opposite of what fabric designers attempt these days. It looks like two old lady fabrics cut and pasted together without any taupe or beige added. Kind of trippy!
I know you're not going to recover your sofa in this, but check out the pillow on Dara Caponigro's bed in the last, great issue of Domino and Zooey Deschanel's bit of C&T's "Bowood" on the previous month's cover. A little bit o' chintz goes a long way. And if you're brave enough to go the sofa route, here's some more encouragement.
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I would make a pillow or use it as a shelf liner. Even around a lampshade in the right room. No. Yes. No. Yes?
ReplyDeleteChintz was a recurring theme in Fassbinder's later work.
ReplyDeleteSorry, Grandma. Not my style.
ReplyDeletePillow?! I want a WHOLE ROOM of it! I might just even fashion a 3-piece suit out of it! If an appreciation for a beautiful chintz means I'm an old lady, well then sign me up for my AARP card!
ReplyDeleteIf Motel 6 operated nursing homes, this is how they'd be decorated.
ReplyDeleteYes pillow. Yes lampshade. Yes entire bedroom. Yes 3-piece suit, very Cecil Beaton. PSHAW to Motel 6 nursing home!!!
ReplyDeleteThis print in a blue lacquered room with a geometric painted wood floor and polished brass lamps and modern paintings would be very ironic and still very chic!!!!!
I will always love chintz-my little sitting room is done in the most beautiful vintage Mario Buatta chintz called "Evelyn", striped silk balloon shades, but then I've modernized it with a Philippe Starck Louis ghost chair, a love seat from Crate and Barrel, and modern art. Well said Nick-I think it is "iconic and still very chic."
ReplyDeleteI was very recently in the robert allen showroom. kudos for finding a gem. i was so overwhelmed by the overpriced swaths that i had to take a handful of candy and bolt, never to claim any samples :/
ReplyDeletesee you tomorrow, ma petite chou
That reminds me, it's tea time. Lovely example of everything old is new again.
ReplyDeleteI adore this print!
ReplyDeleteNick,
ReplyDeleteI've got an AARP card AND I live in Boca Raton. This fabric--not ever!