«Août Murit Les Fruits, Septembre Les Cueille.» Translation: August ripens the fruit, September picks them.

Announcing  that I would  only blog seasonally, along with high temps,  lulled me into such complacency that I missed our Summer post.  Excusez moi dear friends!

So together, let’s  now smoothly transition Summer into Fall, yes?

The high point of LCF Maison’s summer was being invited by our host SW Florida showroom, Webster and Company,  to display our creations  as of last August 7^th, in the Miromar Design Center’s  Best of the Best  Art, Antiques and Accessories Exhibit in the lobby level  Atrium .

LCF Maison  through Webster and Company Antiques and Accessories Showroom at the Miromar Design Center Atrium - August 7th through October 14th, 2013

At the opening,  I had my first go at “group speed-dating” ,  giving multiple consecutive micro lectures  to about 150 attendees on accessorizing with soft furnishings .

LCF Maison also debuted the “Grace, la Licorne” pillows and throw, with artwork created by Jacqueline Johnson, pictured below, for our Enfants Collection, which also features the Teacup Demoiselle Pillows and Throw with artwork by Marjolein Vandersluis, shown on the left.

Artist Jacqueline Johnson, who is also a storyteller, will offer an Children’s Story Hour through LCF Maison in early November  in Naples, Florida to introduce  local children and their parents to the world of Grace the Unicorn and her friends.   Feel free to contact info@lcfmaison.com   next month for details.

In early September I travelled to Paris and visited with Rue Monsieur Paris friends Marjan Denkov, Marcin Kowkowski and Marjorie Renner,and throngs of their adoring fans at their most excellent  Maison et Objet stand in the Scenes d’Interieur wing.  LCF Maison was commissioned to create limited edition accent pillows for Rue Monsieur Paris’ Moonlight Collection which were featured at the show, and will be available through our website very soon.  Their Moonlight Collection furnishings, which brilliantly combine perspective views and stone inlay were also displayed in the Galeries Lafayette windows .

From left to right, Marcin, Moi and Marjan of Rue Monsieur Paris

LCF Maison  limited edition accent pillows for the Rue Monsieur Paris"Moonlight" Collection

My time  in Paris evaporated in a flash, but I was glad to have seen cherished friends, met with inspiring talents both known and new, and even to have dashed through Fashion’s Night Out on the 17th with my octogenarian Mom, pictured on the the LCF Facebook Page  grooving on a Goldelicieux  DS 21 1966 Citroen Cabriolet we found on the Rue St. Honore.  

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Do stay in touch with us on Facebook, Twitter or check our site next week for LCF Maison's new Fall/Winter Op Art inspired collection .

À la prochaine!

Nouveautés Printanières chez LCF Maison

Nouveautés Printanières chez Le Côté Français Maison

It looks like I’ll only be blogging seasonally, as the  thought of blogging intimidates me into procrastinating ‘tiI I think I’ve got something worthy of you, esteemed readers, while data snowballs into a giant post.

Since my last winter holiday entry several events have transpired, like the Toile Talk and our first trunk show in  Webster and Company’s Antiques and Accessories Showroom  at the Miromar Design Center on  Florida’s Gulf Coast, during  their mid-February  Home Design Week .

In preparation for this talk, I delved into the life of 18^th century entrepreneur Christophe Oberkampf, the strategic importance of Jouy en Josas and the Bievre River to his success, and a few of the artists that Oberkampf commissioned to create designs for his prolific fabric printing factory at Jouy en Josas, France.  Dissatisfied with merely touching on the accomplishments that this remarkable pioneer in textile printing realized, I’ve decided to offer a follow-up Toile Talk later this year, probably with a travelling Fall Trunk Show.

Earlier this month, LCF Maison floor cushions commissioned by friends Sylvia Heisel and Scott Taylor for their Manhattan Lower East Side residence were photographed in natural light by John Winston Connell and posted on Houzz and on our LCF Facebook page.

I was honored when Sylvia, a fashion designer whose exquisitely simple creations I’ve loved and worn since our college days, asked me to “break rules” to make six outrageous textile puzzle poufs for her and her sculptor husband’s thoughtfully edited  living space.

Balancing luxurious 4-ply silks and other extravagant modern day fragments that Sylvia gave me to integrate, with exotic and antique/vintage French printed fabrics and trim from our coffers, these "Topkapi" floor cushions, fit for a contemporary palatial harem- in a palette contrasting with the interior’s amber tint took form.

  In tribute to Sylvia’s Turkish roots, I named this ensemble of decadent cushions “Topkapi”. When Scott and she proclaimed them to be unlike anything they had ever seen before, I was both relieved and delighted.

 

 

Our Springtime Blues will soon debut, on pillows, throws, and table linens as well as large bolsters in different tints paired with warm neutrals and  Lime or Emerald  Greens - along with Color Block pieces inspired by Vintage ‘80s Paco Rabanne neckties .

 

We continue to diversify our accessible Let Them Eat Toile collection with more casual versions of Dutch artist Marjolein Vandersluis’ Antoinette Bleu on a cotton box pillow with turquoise tie-dye backs and vintage Parisian toile printed gussets.

Our blossoming children’s line welcomes artist and Divine Illumination counselor Jacqueline Johnson’s “Grace, la Licorne” (Grace the Unicorn), which she has  created just for LCF Maison in a healing and energizing neon jewel palette available on washable cotton linen throw pillows and children’s duvet covers.

And lastly, inspired by  drawstring pouches displayed at the sumptuous Fortuny y Madrazo exhibit curated by Oscar de la Renta at the Queen Sofia Institute in New York City – LCF Maison will soon introduce a series of unique old/new textile  collage drawstring pouches to let you take your “fabric of history” on the go .

Profitez bien des beaux  jours ! 

A la prochaine.