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.