Design Your Own Custom Chinese Chippendale Chairs

I would love to introduce you to Charlotte & Ivy's gorgeous Custom Chinese Chippendale Dining Chair where you are the designer. With dozens of combinations and excellent prices, these chairs will turn your dining room or breakfast room into the eating space you have always wanted. There is even a gold crackle finish that I would love for my own dining room. This chair is available as a side chair only at the present time. I have shown you below that using all armless Chinese Chippendale dining chairs is a very hot and modern look, especially with round tables. With a rectangular table, use all matching Custom Chinese Chippendale Chairs or mix things up by adding two upholstered chairs. These chairs are only $369 each (minimum of 4) with free shipping! Be sure to check out their entire site - it is utterly fabulous.

INTRODUCING CHARLOTTE & IVY'S CUSTOM CHAIR

This gorgeous custom Chinese Chippendale dining chair has a Chippendale fretwork back and a beautiful upholstered seat.  Choose from dozens of color combinations. The classic style dates back to the 18th century but compliments so many modern and traditional decor beautifully. Match these dining chairs to a mahogany or a painted wood table for a dining room everyone will envy.

You're the designer!  Pick a finish, color, fabric, and a custom level (heavy or light) of finish hand-distressing. Your perfect creation will be worth waiting for!

• Custom paint and upholstery is finished by hand for each customer!

• Choose from light or heavy hand distressing.

• Optional premium gold crackle finish option for upcharge. Gorgeous!

• Most orders ship freight in approx 14-20 weeks from date of order.

• Minimum order of 4 dining chairs.  

• *Check back!  An arm chair option may be available soon.  See the Andover Chair to add as a pair of arm chairs.

Chinoiserie and Chintz

House Beautiful instagrammed this stunning room the other day. Can you guess the year?

a. An upcoming issue
b. 2003
c. 1992
d. 1981

If you guessed 1981, you were right. This is from House Beautiful, October 1981. The decade giveaway for the 80s is all that floral chintz. The chintz is Brunschwig & Fils Westbury Bouquet. I still adore chintz. It is timeless and pairs beautifully with Chinoiserie. Designers like Charlotte Moss, Mario Buatta, and Joe Nye have always loved chintz and Miles Redd and others have predicted a huge comeback for chintz. The key today is to use it as an accent and not all matchy matchy. Here are some examples.

Colleen Carney

Chintz sofa with gorgeous Chinoiserie walls

Chinese slipper chairs with Colefax and Fowler Gallica

Mario Buatta

Miles Redd

Joe Nye

Joe Nye

Joe Nye

Joe Nye

Joe Nye

Joe Nye

Weekend Find, Displaying Blue and White Chinese Porcelain, and Magazine Styling

The teeny weeny ginger jar was a new addition this weekend. It's now the smallest in my growing collection of ginger jars and was only $10.00 at my favorite consignment store. Below you will find lots of inspiration on displaying your own blue and white Chinese porcelain collection. The next two shots are in my house as well. Have you entered my Chinoiserie giveaway here?

Jamie Meares

Carolyne Roehm

Veranda

Oscar de la Renta

Jennifer Nicholson

Martha Stewart Living

Bunny Williams

Carolyne Roehm

Joe Nye

Here is a vignette in Mark Sikes' home with blue and white Chinese porcelain styled three ways -

As styled by interior designer and homeowner Mark Sikes before the photo shoots - I don't like the clay pots, the lone sconce, the bland rug, and the mismatched jumble of items on the console.

As styled by Lonny Magazine - too many dinky pieces and things the same height and I don't like the sconce
and lamp on the left and nothing on the right. No drama.

House Beautiful - pinned a zillion times and with good reason. We don't see the sconce and rug. I love the additions of the palm fronds, the coral, the seashells, and the mini pagodas. More symmetry, more drama, only one mistake. The lamps are not on in the shot anyway - lose the electrical cords!