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Monday, February 22, 2016

DOUBLE VISION: Louis XVI Period Commode

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Traditional Home
Bill Brockschmidt and Courtney Coleman, Interior Designers
Tria Giovan, Photographer

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18th Century French Louis XVI Period Walnut Commode
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Lolo & Mimi

Monday, January 18, 2016

DOUBLE VISION: Antique French Butcher Block

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Traditional Home
Judith Nadler Ellerman, Interior Designer
Werner Straube, Photographer

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Antique French Butcher Block

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

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

1. The Antiques Diva's 2016 Interior Design Predictions (via TheHighboy)

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)

7. Social media marketing for interior designers (via Forbes)

8. Create your dream home...digitally (via Vogue)

9. Top travel destinations for 2016 (via T+L)

#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

Monday, January 11, 2016

DOUBLE VISION: Painted Directoire Daybed

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"The Aerie" San Francisco Decorator Showcase, 2010
Benjamin Dhong, Interior
David Duncan Livingston, Photographer

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19th Century Painted Directoire Style Daybed with Neoclassical Urn Carving

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Friday, January 8, 2016

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

Jamie Drake's New York apartment
Marco Ricca, Photographer

1. A perfect blend of styles (via InteriorDesign)

2. Pretty in Pink – Pantone's Color of the Year 2016 (via societyletters)

3. Can't miss music venues in the South (via Garden&Gun)

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

WELCOME 2016

Wishing you PEACE+LOVE+LAUGHTER in the New Year!

Lolo & Mimi

Friday, September 18, 2015

LIEN BIEN: Links We Liked This Week

Auberge du Soleil deluxe suite
Photo, Trinette Reed Photography

1. Auberge du Soleil's "suite" makeover (via San Francisco Chronicle)

2. 8 must see castles (via Veranda)

3. Step up the stairs (via apartment therapy)

4. Artists on how to hang art (via WSJ)

Jane Sigal's Bistronomy cookbook
Fredrika Stjärne, Photographer

5. Reinvention of French cuisine (via ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST)

6. So, you want to study in France? (via thelocal.fr)

7. Quoting Coco (via marie claire)

8. Chinoiserie painted pumpkins (via Town&Country)

9. Room portraits from the 19th century (via HYPERALLERGIC)

10. Bibi la Chèvre (via Country Living)

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

WEDNESDAY'S WORD OF THE WEEK: TAMBOUR

TAMBOUR

tam·bour [tam-boo r, tam-boo r]

noun [tam-boo r, tam-boo r]

1. Music. a drum.

2. Architecture. a wall that is circular in plan, such as one that supports a dome or one that is surrounded by a colonnade.

3. Furniture. a flexible shutter or roll front, made with narrow mouldings or strips of wood that are transversely glued onto a heavy canvas or linen backing, the ends of which fit into grooves on the inner sides of the piece of furniture. It may be used as a vertical rolling or horizontal sliding door on a cabinet or chest.

Origin:

1475-85; < Middle French: drum ≪ Arabic tanbūr lute < Medieval Greek pandoúra

The tambour was first used in France in the 1760s when King Louis XV commissioned Jean-François Oeben, Ébéniste du Roi (Cabinetmaker to the King), to create a new type of writing desk for the king's private study that could be shuttered and locked. The desk's appearance and functionality were important to Louis XV, but security was his main concern. Confidential, diplomatic papers would be kept inside the desk's secret drawers and compartments, so a great deal of time was spent making sure the rolling top and mechanical locking devices were theft proof. There was only one key and the King had it in his possession at all times.

Louis XV's Bureau du Roi, Château de Versailles

The desk, known as the Bureau du Roi (King's Desk), is one of the most famous pieces of furniture ever crafted and one of the most opulent creations of the 18th century. Oeben didn't live to see it completed, unfortunately. He died in 1763 and his protégé, Jean Henri Riesener, was left with the task of finishing the work Oeben had begun. The challenging design and royal history of the iconic desk assured its fame and many 19th century ébénistes attempted to create similar versions.

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Pair of Louis XV Style Chevets with Tambour Doors

This pair of chevets with tambour doors is a perfect solution for accessible storage when space is an issue and hinged doors don't work.

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Louis XV Style Bureau à Cylindre

And this lovely desk is finished on all sides and can float in a room. Imagine all the letters written with pen and paper at this desk. How long ago did you write your last proper letter?

À Bientôt!

Lolo & Mimi

Origin:

1610–20; New Latin, Latin < Greek ákanthos bear's-footACANTHUS 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

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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

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