Friday, August 28, 2015

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week


Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!

The living room of Jacques Grange's Paris apartment – once home to the novelist Colette



3. Puppy Love (via BuzzFeed)

4.  Sleep like a king (via Harpers Bazaar) 

Game Day Bloody Mary
Peter Frank Edwards, Photographer
5. Tailgate Toddies (via Garden&Gun)

6. Pick a parquet (via Remodelista)


8. Home buyer checklist (via apartment therapy) 

9. Monogram Etiquette (via Vogue)

10. Liberation of Paris (via brain pickings)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi
Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!

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Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!

Original Post from: Lolo's French Bloguette http://lolosfrenchbloguette.blogspot.com/
Copyright Lolo French Antiques et More - All Rights Reserved
Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!

Original Post from: Lolo's French Bloguette http://lolosfrenchbloguette.blogspot.com/
Copyright Lolo French Antiques et More - All Rights Reserved
Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015

WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK: ACANTHUS


ACANTHUS

a·can·thus [uh-kan-thuh s]

noun [uh-kan-thuh s]
   
1.  Plants. any shrub or herbaceous plant of the genus Acanthus, native to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated as ornamental plants, having large spiny leaves and spikes of white or purplish flowers.  

2.  Architecture. a design patterned after the leaves of one of these plants, used especially on the capitals of Corinthian columns.

Origin:
1610–20; New Latin, Latin < Greek ákanthos bear's-foot

The origin of the Corinthian Order, illustrated in Claude Perrault's Vitruvius 1684
Of all the decorative designs inspired by nature, the acanthus leaf is the most iconic. With some resemblance to thistle, poppy and parsley leaves, it is one of the most widely used and popular motifs in architecture, furniture, interior design, and textiles. It can be found on everything from Corinthian capitals to manuscripts.

Acanthus Leaf
Illustrations by Nan Richards for Lolo French Antiques et More

The motif was particularly popular in the court appointments and furnishings of King Louis XVI, however stylized carvings are found in all King Louis styles. The conception and treatment of the margin and shape of the leaf, is the principal characteristic of the different period styles.

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Friday, August 21, 2015

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week


Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!



8. Art of the game (via Architectural Digest)

9. Is Instagram killing originality? (via domain)


10. Dapper Designer (via quientessence)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Friday, August 14, 2015

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week


Every Friday we share a few LIEN BIEN (good links) we've recently discovered around the web that we think you may want to read or watch over the weekend. From stories to recipes to our favorite movies and songs, we try to include a little bit of everything. Hope you'll enjoy and please share with us what you're reading or watching in the comments. We'd love to know!



6. Tea Time (via Houzz)

7. Dog Days of Summer (via moderndog)



À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

DOUBLE VISION: Trestle Table


Need some interior design inspiration? See what we've found! Source your favorite finds at 
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Birmingham Home & Garden
Jan Ware, Interior Designer
Jean Allsopp, Photographer
  
Lolo French Antiques et More
Item #LFA266
Antique Spanish Trestle Table with Iron Stretcher
   
À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi
                                                                                          

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK: PANIER


PANIER

pan·ier [pan-yer, -ee-er]

noun [pan-yer, -ee-er]
   
1.  a basket, especially a large one, for carrying goods, provisions, etc.

2.  one of a pair of baskets to be slung across the back of a pack animal.

Also called pannier.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English panier < Middle French < Latin pānārium breadbasket, equivalent to pān (is) bread + -ārium -ary; see -ier  

Marchand de Paniers, Carle Vernet, 1820

The French have fancied paniers (baskets) for centuries, even before the art of basket making was formally recognized as a trade in France during the 15th century. Baskets have been used to gather flowers, fruits and vegetables from the fields, to present or display breads in village boulangeries, to transport live chickens to be sold to or brought home from the village markets, to harvest grapes for champagne making, and to carry the daily marketing home. 


Antique French Winnowing Basket

By the 13th century, the village of Vallabrègues, alongside the Rhône River near the town of Arles, was the largest basket producer in France. Most of the vanniers (basket makers) living there were wandering artisans that settled on the riverbank because the soil was perfect for growing willow used to make baskets. At one point, when baskets were the main source used for the gathering, storing, drying and transporting of fruits, vegetables, breads and produce, 450 out of a population of 1,818 were vanniers. Basket makers from all over France gather every August in Vallabrègues to celebrate La Fête de la Vannerie (Festival of the Basketry).


Guy Barbier, Vannier at Fête de la Vannerie à Vallabrègues
Source
Fête de la Vannerie à Vallabrègues
Source

With the emergence of wooden crates and the introduction of cardboard and plastic in the 1950s, however, the basketmaking industry virtually disappeared in France. Today, there are only about 200 vanniers left in France, making antique baskets even more collectible.    

Antique French Gathering Baskets

French baskets come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Originally rustic and created out of necessity, paniers are now functional as well as decorative. They're perfect for storing toys, magazines, blankets, laundry and so much more. Gathering baskets can easily hold firewood or fresh laundry. A French oyster basket looks great filled with towels in a powder room or toys in a playroom. Open sided baguette baskets make wonderful umbrella stands, and French banettons look beautiful when displayed in the kitchen as a centerpiece for dried flowers, fruits or vegetables. Simply line one with an antique French towel and use it to serve a warm baguette.

Antique French Bannetons

Whether large or small, simple or fancy, French baskets always add a touch of warmth and Country French flair to any decor. How do you use or display your favorite panier? Let us know!

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi