A Year in the French Style: Interiors and Entertaining by Antoinette Poisson
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Maison Lescop in Port-Louis, Brittany―the historic residence of an eighteenth-century French importer for the Indian trading company―seemed predestined to become the new home and restoration project for the creative duo behind Antoinette Poisson, a Parisian design team dedicated to reviving the savoir faire of domino paper for home decoration and furnishings. The art historians became enchanted by the poetic beauty of this artisanal craft―derived from an Indian block print technique―when they uncovered original hand-painted eighteenth-century domino wallpaper while restoring a mansion in central France.
Charmed by the repeat-pattern domino prints―which range from florals and fauna to geometric and ikat―they have appointed their new home with attractive decorative touches―handmade lampshades, wallpaper lined armoires, papier-mâché wedding boxes, assorted table settings, and luxurious textiles.
Celebrating the rhythm of life in France, their adventures range from shopping at the local market and antiquing, to paper making and indigo textile dyeing, and they share seasonal French meals inspired by antique cookbooks. This exquisitely photographed book is a celebration of authentic French style.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Flammarion, 1st edition (21 Sept. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 240 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 2080421956 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-2080421951 |
| Dimensions | 23.83 x 2.84 x 31.5 cm |
by Mr. A. J. Porter
I was expecting a lot more. If you like crafts then this might be for you. I found it vacuous and lacking any useful content, even the recipes. A few atmospheric pictures…
by spabbygirl
This book is about an 18th c house in Brittany which has been bought and lived in by a couple who run an interiors shop called Antoinette Poisson in Paris, the name is that of Madame de Pompadour before her court days. The couple were told about the house when it was about to come on the market because it had been unchanged for hundreds of years. The book features the house as it is now, and it is stunning, the couple have furnished it with furniture from the period, used paints with carefully chosen pigments and hand made papers. It is superb, a remarkable project beautifully executed and the photography so atmospheric and respectful of the beauty in textures, natural light and waxed well wood, its amazing how different this is to modern varnish and you can clearly see this in the photos. If you like books by Ron Byam Shaw you’ll love this. It has a few recipes in too, that are typically French and features on remarkable local people, like the chap who makes paper locally, but not just any paper, beautifully hand made paper and there are other similar people. People with a passion for things and committing so much time to things are to be encouraged in society and I love this book for the way it celebrates beauty and integrity, its a dream to flick through & I think my next holiday might be to Port Louis, its a Mecca for creative & history loving types.