Friday, January 15, 2016

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!

Brown is the New Black
Image via Architectural Digest

2.  Buy Birkin (via Harpers Bazaar)

3.  Hotel hospitality at home (via WSJ)

4. The art of artists (via Huffington Post

French 75
Getty 
5.  Classic Cocktails (via marie claire) 

6.  Peony Perfection (via Town&Country)




#catstyle
Photo by miaouandco on Instagram.
10.  Furry Friends for 2016 (via Design Sponge)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK: BOUILLOTTE


BOUILLOTTE  

bouil•lotte [boo-yot]

noun [boo-yot]

1.  an 18th century gambling card game that was so popular in France that a special table was created for play. Based on Brelan, it is regarded as one of the games that influenced open-card stud variation in poker.

Origin:
< French bouillotte card game, equivalent to bouill (ir) to boil + -otte noun suffix

"La Bouillotte 1798" by Jean Francois Bosio

The gambling game Bouillotte was introduced during the French Revolution as a regulated form of a popular card game known as Brelan, which had been played since the 1600s. The standard game included four players using a piquet pack (20-card pack) by removing the sevens, tens and Jacks, with the cards in each suit ranking from high to low A-K-Q-9-8. The best hand was a brelan carré, being four of a kind made with the aid of a turned card, followed by a simple brelan or three of a kind. When no one had three of a kind, the winning hand was that with the highest card of the suit of which post points were in play. See rules here.

"Le Suprême Bon Ton No. 4"  

Bouillotte, said to be one of the card games that led to the development of poker, became such a favorite past time that drawing rooms or card rooms had to accommodate the needs and comforts of the players. Playing became so en vogue during the reign of Louis XVI that special tables (and lamps) of the same name were created specifically for the game. Although neither the table nor the lamp were required to play the game, both were created to meet the needs of the popular card game.


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French Louis XVI Style Marble Top Bouillotte Table

The small marble topped card tables, created in the Louis XVI neoclassical style, were often made of mahogany and raised on four tapering legs ending in sabots or fitted with casters. They were usually round, having a pierced brass or bronze gallery that made it possible to place a bouchon (felt-like cover) securely on top of the marble when the table was being used for the game. 


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French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bouillotte Table

Below the marble top was a paneled frieze typically fitted with two drawers and two tirettes (pull-out utility slides). Chips were used as wagers during the game and the raised gallery helped keep the playing pieces on the table. The felt cover was removed to reveal the marble top when the game wasn't being played, and the table functioned as a side table or server.


Embossed leather tirettes

Today, bouillotte tables mix wonderfully with both traditional and modern decors and continue to function perfectly as side or end tables.

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Friday, January 8, 2016

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!


4.  15 Up + Coming young artists (via goop)

Happy Cassoulet Day!
Photo courtesy of Benoit Bistro 
5. French Fave has its own day (via Town&Country)

6.  Priciest Pets (via Veranda)

7.  Get swept off your feet with these cleaning tools (via WSJ)

8.  Best-Dressed Movies of 2015 (via Vogue)

9.  Can chocolate cure coughs? (via HouseBeautiful)



10.  Marie Antoinette's scandalous love letters (via Harpers Bazaar)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi 

Monday, January 4, 2016

DOUBLE VISION: Painted Buffet Deux Corps


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House Beautiful
Nancy Price, Interior Designer
Eric Piasecki, Photographer

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19th Century French Painted Louis XV Style Buffet Deux Corp

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi
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Friday, January 1, 2016