…………………….PALE PINK is a new coloration for this spring bouquet……………There is something VINTAGE about the soft colors on the pale pink ground. Jac and I often go to open air antique shows….just to look and spend a relaxing day. There inevitably is a stand or two that has antique kitchen ware, gadgets, table cloths, napkins and dish towels. They always have the prettiest some what faded textiles…..but that’s what makes them pretty to me……Or you may visit an old farm house…..or a new one trying to look old……..that has wallpaper or upolstered furniture, maybe a wicker set, in these wonderful vintage looking prints. That is what I wanted to achieve with this print……I hope you find it as calming and relaxing as I do……………………enjoy……….much Love………………Louis
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The Charles Stewart Company is excellent and one I used over many years. To the Trade only and used to be solely COM. I had many new pieces made for our house here as the room configurations and sizes were very different from our home “Walnut Hill” in MD. I had them shipped directly to our home here, as I thought that surely I could find someone to make slipcovers! Was not to be :-(. I had a wonderful older lady in the DC area make them for me there, but we were well outside her delivery area here. Dommage!!! So the “Tea With the Bishop” parlor is strictly off limits to the cats and such LOL!
I grew up with a Sister Parish, Colefax and Fowler look in my grandmother’s house. She was way ahead in that look with her handmade rag rugs, patchwork quilts, needlepoint, and hand crocheted bed coverings. I still have the crocheted bedspread that was in my mother’s bedroom. Wouldn’t dare paint the “ugly brown” family antiques in a million years, though! I have her Duncan Phyfe dining room table and Hepplewhite chairs in my dining room now. There is something very comforting about sitting in those chairs and eating at that table that I have my entire life! My little two year old grandson now sits at the table in a youth chair I made for his father. When I told him that my “Oma” had given me the other chairs, he said “Then they are very old” LOL!
I’m with you, Louis! One of my fondest memories is of my grandmother putting her pretty chintz slipcovers on her living room furniture as soon as spring came every year. She would also take down the heavy drapery and replace it with organdy “Priscilla” curtains to signal the change of seasons. Her style was traditional, with a camelback sofa and wing chairs, but for the spring and summer she would have the slipcovers made with skirts to the floor. It was always so pretty and fresh! As I always visited her in the summer, it came as a surprise to me to find out that velvet and damask were under the slipcovers! I still love that style of decorating, although a good slipcover maker can be hard to find now.
That’s very true. Our two upholstered living room sofas, 3 back pillows and seats and roll arms, and two arm matching large armchairs were hand made by a company in NYC named DeAngeles [not sure of the spelling. There are upholstered in a silk and cotton beige needlepoint, but the slip covers , with ruffle skirts, are in a marvelous large floral print. We never take the covers off because they look so festive at Christmas time. We took them off to be cleaned, a major job, but we missed the print. The beige was very pretty, but just not the same vibe. Unfortunately DeAngeles closed shop when the owner passed.