LE PETIT CABINET DE CURIOSITES

Once ...

Once every four year ...

I would love to be born on the 29 th of february  because that sounds diferent and I love difference !

The only sad part would be I love to have party and celebrate my birthday and in this case it would be only every 4 years

to follow with my balck posts : a XIX th century black and white picture , an oriental woman smoking , such a modern and diferent attitude in an old fashioned society

black, the perfect color

OK , after all these posts I have to confess , black is my favorite colors ( well, not really) But I love black clothes , I love black decoration , I love black and white pictures....

And black is easy to match with others colors ..it is may be the easiest color

first , the easy and timeless Black and white

   

Designer guild collection

Love the zebra carpet , perfect for a black and white decoration

marie claire maison , selvaggia Armani's home

black is great with red

Marie Mac Donald's work featured in House Beautiful

and black is great , wonderful , magic with the color of the season : yellow

Marie claire MAison

Marie Mac Donald's decoration via house Beautiful and via Girl meets glamour

all the post in " girl meets glamour" blog shows how Mary Mac Donald uses black. I think she is a fan of black . Thanks to one of her post and Robert Passal's work, you can also see that black and orange are fabulous

robert Passal's work

You can check also at absolutely beautiful things blog on the right side the black spiro display of january 06

and also black and pink ...and so on

YOU

I've been short of time these last days but I have been thinking of all of you !!

black fabrics

let's go on with black , today with fabrics

black P Frey , looks like a lace , Mersina width 142 cm : 118 euro

modern toile de jouy called hong kong from P. Frey 62 euro /m

alberto Pinto also uses black : essaouira 110 euro /m others colors and others designs , contact me

ethnic black fabrics from Canovas , java , 138 euro /m

graphic , this collection participated for the international design

awards ,buta , 110 euro / m

graphic design from Elitis , spartiate elegance , 127 euro /m

graphic decoration with the fabrics below

graphic kenzo , wax , 100 euro /m

We could not write a post about black fabrics without talking about the surrealist : Piero Fornasetti

fornasetti's fabric egocentrismo by Luciano Marcato 102 euro /m

vintage fabric with black chairs

Black fabrics , we have also black false fur use as a fabric

astrakhan from Winter

black dalmatian false fur from winter

Well all my examples of black fabrics were black or black and white ,I did it on purpose but There a lot of others fabrics mixing black with others fantastic colors such as this one :

I particularly love this one from Osborne and little , mixing black with coral orange

Tomorrow a new balck post about what colors fit with black : That is easy , black is " easy going" "easy fitting"

black decoration

I love to insert black elements into my decoration
In another post I will show you that black fits with a lot of colors , so keep on reading this week

I love black ceramics, in Aubagne ( my town) in the 20's there was  a fabulous ceramics firm called VSE ( vaissellerie du sud est ) and they produced a very modern ceramic

detail of an huge art deco vase from VSE

a lot of ceramists were inspired by black as :

Jean Marais in Vallauris

cup from Jean Marais

as Georges Jouve ( 1910 - 1964)

Jouve's cup

glass lamp from Murano

 

statue called Gens qui rient or Jean qui rie ( that is the question ?)

modern trimmings , for price or information , contact me

modern lamp

Black furniture

Let's start these "black post" with balck furniture ...indeed most of them are victorian what we call Napoléon III .

I think they match pretty well with design and modern style

detail of a drawer :

a victoriancorner in one of the bedroom

detail of a napoélon III piece of furniture

detail of an inlaid victorian box

napoléon III fauteuil with modern black and chocolate fabric from Dedar

for me black is

lightful ( yes it is ) , classic , and timeless

for price or information , contact me

black power

THIS WEEK MY POSTS WILL BE ABOUT A COLOR I LOVE

BLACK

For me , black is beautiful

black is modern

black  can be victorian or Napoléon III

Black in  fabrics

black in drawings , inks , etching

black in ceramics

Vanités

'I was once what you are, you will be what I am'

memento mori

PUZZLE

Few days ago , I wrote a post about a marvellous painting , here are some others parts

detail of my loved painting

other detail , " le chateau "

provencal fisher

different sides ,different point of view

one side

other side

detail

There are always different sides of the story , of the view it depends where you stand , so listen well to the details to make your own point of view ...