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Miniature Louis XV Style Carved White Painted Child Arm Chairs

Miniature Pair of Antique 19th Century French Louis XV Style Child Arm Chairs

Antique Furniture on ebay is selling a terrific pair of Miniature Louis XV Style Carved White Painted Child Arm Chairs for just over 1,300.  The pair most likely  originated from France in the late 19th Century.

The set has wonderful proportions built for a child to sit in a [...]

Decorate With Lemons! Add A Pop Of Color Into Your Home

Beautiful Gold Berkshire Hall Sculptural Vessel

Gold Berkshire Sculptural Vessel – $64 Toscano exclusive -quality designer resin to replicate the 18th-century French original. 15″Wx8″Dx10″H. 6 lbs.

When professional decorators want to brighten up a room or space, they  reach for the brightest color on the color wheel -yellow.   Yellow is the perfect home [...]

Extravagant Marie-Antoinette Pet Beds

Luxury Pet Beds French Style From Prestige Houses

Prestige Houses is a Toulouse-based company that makes historic reproduction dog (and cat) beds inspired from designs from Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI in the 18th century.Prestige director Pierre Zordan uses specially trained upholsterers, wood-carvers and decorative painters to build canopy beds in the à la Polonaise style [...]

Exceptional Rare French Antique Furniture

A Louis XV Period Secretaire Lacquer With Ormolu Mounts

A Louis XV period secretaire a abattant, lacquer with ormolu mounts. Stamped F. RUBESTUCK et JME. $39,109.

The Devoted Classicist Blog featured some of the pictures of the furnishings from the Paris Apartment of Suzy and Pierre Delbee in the Christies Auction Catalogue.

A stand-out piece was a red [...]

Famous Composer Maurice Ravel's French Styled Home

Composer Maurice Ravel's French Styled Home

French musician Maurice Ravel will always be known for his beautiful music, but not many people knew about his incredible taste for furnishings.  Ravel lived outside of   Paris in the town Monfort l’Amaury.  One glimpse of the home shows one side of the home credited to Maurice Ravel.  Ravels Home is supposed to have [...]

Fashion Designer L'Wren Scott's French Styled Home

L'Wren Scott's Paris Apartment Vogue May 2012

April’s U.S. Vogue featured L’Wren Scott’s home in France. The fashion designer, stylist and model known primarily for her long-term relationship with singer Mick Jagger. The living room is dressed up in mauve, with classic French wall panels. The molding throughout the apartment adds so much to the [...]

Would You Buy A Home Without A Bathroom AND A Kitchen?

Dominique Kieffer Denise Bonenti via Italian Marie Claire Maison

Marie Claire Maison featured a neoclassical interior in the heart of Paris, twenty steps from the Seine back in their November 2007 issue.  The home actually originally came with no bathroom or kitchen, but that didn’t stop Dominique Kieffer.  A year later Dominique was able to purchase an adjoining kitchen, [...]

How TO Decorate With Purple In French Styled Interiors

Michael Coorengel et Jean-Pierre Calvagrac

Michael Coorengel Jean-Pierre Calvagrac Photocredit- Temps Machine

Michael Coorengel and Jean Pierre Calvagrac own a gorgeous Parisian apartment located in the Hausmann building overlooking the Place de la Bastille.  Their home features the most exquisite French panelled walls, and the best antique furniture.  Their bold use of color gives their [...]