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3 Coffee Table Books for Black and White Schemes

Coffee Table Books Blogpost Pinterior Design recommended books

Books are great for styling spaces with as well as having great content for your design education. Let’s take a look at 3 fantastic books to complement your modern home in your black and white living room!

Chanel Collections and Creations

Now who doesn’t love Chanel – this book “CHANEL Collections and Creations” is very eye catching and has real impact when styling with its bold black cover! Click here to buy.

For the Love White

On the opposite end of the spectrum ” For the Love of White” is the very elegant offering by iconic British Company The White Company. Its chic timeless cover means it will sit in almost any interior but its of course at home in a white one : ). Buy your copy here.

A History of Interior Design

“A History of Interior Design” is the perfect grey hardback complement to these two books and gives you great references of styles of interiors and furniture. Click here to buy!

These 3 will look fantastic piled on any coffee table, next to a beautiful tray of your favourite seasonal things this summer. Happy reading and enjoy styling your coffee table!

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Postcards from Paris 1925 “Exposition Internationale Des Art Decoratifs”

Art Deco Postcard
Pavilion Mulhouse – Original 1925 Paris Exposition Des Arts Decoratifs postcard

Art Deco is my favourite period style in interior design and architecture. I love everything to do with the Roaring Twenties, society was changing dramatically with the emancipation of women through the flapper movement and many world pioneering brands were born such as fashion brands Chanel and Gucci. I love the styles of Coco Chanel and designers that were her contemporaries such as Italian Elsa Schiaparelli renown for signature “shocking pink” and her knitwear. Her designs were influenced by the Dadaists.  Art Deco as a movement was originally born out of an exhibition in Paris in 1925 “Exposition Internationale Des Arts Decoratif” and the name Art Deco is simply a shortened version of this.  I learnt French at an early age going on my first french exchange at the age of nine to Versailles. After this I was so impressed with the extravagance of the Palais de Versailles I believe that was one of the first times I thought about becoming an interior designer. I took many more trips to France over my school and college years taking French at GCSE and A-level and even a module of my interior design degree was in French. On one of my trips I came across some postcards on a streetside market as well as some original twenties newspapers called “Le Petit Echo De La Mode” which were fashion newspapers (I originally wanted to be a fashion designer from an early age too!) I had to buy them and still have them (there are many many images on Google of these). The postcards I still have too and they are original postcards from the Paris Exhibition of 1925 which I am posting here today. If you like these please also see the previous blogpost on my original New York World Fair postcards found on my honeymoon to New York!

Anyway what prompted me to write this is I’m now tentatively waiting for some postcards I’ve just bid on on Ebay of the Crystal Palace which was known as the  “Great Exhibition of 1851”, as I felt having a London exhibition set to go with the New York and Paris ones was a must even if they are a little earlier in history! I can see them under some clocks if I ever get a design studio up and running. If I get them I will post them on here. Do you collect anything from the past if so what I’d love to hear how it started?

Pavillon De La Ville De Paris 1925
Postcard from 1925 Paris Exhibition Internationale Des Art Decoratifs

Ville De Nuit
Ville De Nuit – original postcard from Paris 1925 Exhibition Des Arts Decoratifs

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The Roaring 1920’s

Musee de la Mer at Biarritz, France
Art Deco - Musee de la Mer at Biarritz, France

 

My favourite decade is the glamorous 1920’s. Both today’s number one luxury brands Gucci and Chanel were developed from this era (Gucci was originally horse leathers bags at this stage!). It was a time of incredible transformation with the emancipation of women and the flappers. Fashion evolved as media began develop, with what was in the fashion newspapers. I even own some of these original newspapers which I found in a Parisian flee market when I was a young girl.  The Art Deco style was born and is still incredibly chic today. The Swiss born French architect Le Corbusier published his “Toward An Architecture”  essay influencing the Modern Movement and architecture for good.  Lloyd Loom furniture constructed from twisted paper and steel wire on a beech frame became fashionable in this era and is still an extremely popular look today, the originals can sometimes be picked up in charity shops or antiques shops, the chairs being popular for bathrooms.

One incredible 1920’s antiques shop which is renowned for their collection of Art Deco furniture and accessories worldwide is “La Belle” in Redruth, which as I’m taking a trip to Redruth today I will get to browse around!

What’s your favourite era and why, I’d love to hear from you!

http://www.labelle-artdecoandantiques.co.uk/

http://www.lloydloom.com/