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Chinoiserie — a style that has managed to become indispensable. Subtract chinoiserie from the English and French styles — and what happens? Today he is again inspiring fashion designers.

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Magazine: Decor N4 (192) 2014

Chinoiserie — a style that has managed to become indispensable. Subtract chinoiserie from the English and French styles — and what happens? Today he is again inspiring fashion designers.

Chinoiserie, no matter how scolded he was Chinese, was the fate of the classical style: centuries pass, and it remains relevant, fashionable, desirable. Today, interior design is experiencing another flash of interest in things in this style, and especially in fabrics and wallpaper. In addition to the English and French interior, which chinoiserie is historically close to, modern eclectic interior has looked at this style. And he really faces these blooming creepers, fluttering birds, trees and pagodas. Especially since well-known brands have recently released fabrics — real works of art — in silk and embroidery and jacquard printing techniques. Here and gentle watercolor in the spirit of the ancient Chinese miniatures, and bright silk — green with pink, yellow with blue, black with red. Wallpapers keep up with the fabrics. One of the fashionable patterns resembles a cobalt pattern on white porcelain. Designers paid tribute to the trendy gray theme, decorating the wallpaper with a pattern in the spirit of grisaille: silhouettes of beige birds on a gray background. In this series there is a very modern look wallpaper, the ornament of which the famous artist William Morris created more than a century ago, inspired by the style of chinoiserie. Then this amazing style just experienced another climb.

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