While Leah Cumming’s L.A. yard screams Marrakech, the inside says Paris-meets-California.
Name: Madeleine and Karl Stamer Location: Caulfield; Melbourne, Australia Size: 110 square metres (1,184 square feet) Years lived in: 2 years; Owned for 10 years The minute you walk into this wonderful family home- filled with color and beautiful artwork, much of it created by Madeleine- you wish it was your own. The mixture of vintage, new, and handmade/handcrafted has been collected over time and is well thought-out and displayed so effortlessly.
While Leah Cumming’s L.A. yard screams Marrakech, the inside says Paris-meets-California.
Name: Madeleine and Karl Stamer Location: Caulfield; Melbourne, Australia Size: 110 square metres (1,184 square feet) Years lived in: 2 years; Owned for 10 years The minute you walk into this wonderful family home- filled with color and beautiful artwork, much of it created by Madeleine- you wish it was your own. The mixture of vintage, new, and handmade/handcrafted has been collected over time and is well thought-out and displayed so effortlessly.
After 5 months of renovating, our kitchen is finally finished! We are so excited that we get to enjoy our dream kitchen, create many recipes and share them with friends, family and all of you online.When we moved in we fell in love with this kitchen, and knew this was the place to start. It is the h
While Leah Cumming’s L.A. yard screams Marrakech, the inside says Paris-meets-California.
Name: Madeleine and Karl Stamer Location: Caulfield; Melbourne, Australia Size: 110 square metres (1,184 square feet) Years lived in: 2 years; Owned for 10 years The minute you walk into this wonderful family home- filled with color and beautiful artwork, much of it created by Madeleine- you wish it was your own. The mixture of vintage, new, and handmade/handcrafted has been collected over time and is well thought-out and displayed so effortlessly.
The remainder of the Queens Park house is contemporary, light filled in contrast to the original. The budget for the house was not excessive.
Name: Madeleine and Karl Stamer Location: Caulfield; Melbourne, Australia Size: 110 square metres (1,184 square feet) Years lived in: 2 years; Owned for 10 years The minute you walk into this wonderful family home- filled with color and beautiful artwork, much of it created by Madeleine- you wish it was your own. The mixture of vintage, new, and handmade/handcrafted has been collected over time and is well thought-out and displayed so effortlessly.
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed the flourishing of scientific illustration in Europe. In an intellectual climate that valued curiosity and experimentation, the goals of the artist frequently merged with those of the scientist. Before the invention of photography, artists needed to document botanical specimens quickly before they decayed. These visual records of plants aided in their identification and classification and also functioned as aesthetically pleasing works of art.
Aurélie Lecuyer offers us a glimpse of her taste and talent for interior design through her latest project: Grès.
I helgen såg jag äntligen filmen "Call me by your name". En fantastiskt fin och sorglig historia som berör. Men det som också berörde mig var allt vackert filmen innehöll, husen, interiören, arkite
A little while ago Swedish interior designer and stylist Madeleine Asplund Klingstedt announced on her blog that her home would be photographed and this week I finally had the chance to admire the inspiring photos of her apartment, re
Name: Madeleine and Karl Stamer Location: Caulfield; Melbourne, Australia Size: 110 square metres (1,184 square feet) Years lived in: 2 years; Owned for 10 years The minute you walk into this wonderful family home- filled with color and beautiful artwork, much of it created by Madeleine- you wish it was your own. The mixture of vintage, new, and handmade/handcrafted has been collected over time and is well thought-out and displayed so effortlessly.
Name: Madeleine and Karl Stamer Location: Caulfield; Melbourne, Australia Size: 110 square metres (1,184 square feet) Years lived in: 2 years; Owned for 10 years The minute you walk into this wonderful family home- filled with color and beautiful artwork, much of it created by Madeleine- you wish it was your own. The mixture of vintage, new, and handmade/handcrafted has been collected over time and is well thought-out and displayed so effortlessly.
There’s no doubt that Madeleine Castaing is among the decorating legends. Her iconic interiors are still an inspiration and a reference for many. She used animal print fearlessly and her leo…
Name: Madeleine and Karl Stamer Location: Caulfield; Melbourne, Australia Size: 110 square metres (1,184 square feet) Years lived in: 2 years; Owned for 10 years The minute you walk into this wonderful family home- filled with color and beautiful artwork, much of it created by Madeleine- you wish it was your own. The mixture of vintage, new, and handmade/handcrafted has been collected over time and is well thought-out and displayed so effortlessly.
Bravo, Emily Evans Eerdmans! Her triumphant new biography/style book has just been published by Rizzoli. It’s inspiring, definitive, superbly illustrated, and simply delicious French antiquaire and interior designer Madeleine Castaing is the ultimate Paris design inspiration and insider. Her quirky and highly original style has become a cult favorite with top designers and decorating insiders once more. For many years, in Paris, Madeleine Castaing was part of my happy daily routine. As I marched along the rue Jacob from my apartment, I’d come upon her corner antique shop. Beyond the Napoleon III chairs and a swooping green velvet chaise, the sweet and almost childlike yet elegant face of Madeline Castaing, with its cloche of dark brown hair (wig, actually), two furry fringes of black false eyelashes, and vivid red lipstick was always a surprise and a jolt of nostalgia. Tucked into a comfortable chair, red gloves, perhaps, on her attenuated fingers, she quietly, in a wisp of a voice, greeted familiar visitors to her iconic Left Bank antique shop for many years. But who was Madeline Castaing, and why is she so revered and eternally stylish? All is revealed by the brilliant design historian/blogger Emily Evans Eerdmans’ new book, ‘The World of Madeline Castaing’ just published by Rizzoli (also my publisher), with a foreword by Jacques Grange and a preface by Frederic Castaing. (Emily’s blog: http://emilyevanseerdmans.blogspot.com) Emily’s book is a magnum opus. At 272 pages, it’s fat and juicy and colorful. The research and dept of information are impression. With hundreds of full-page color images, it ‘s essential for the design library of designers, design students and Francophiles. Madeleine Castaing (1894-1992) was a prominent antiquaire and interior decorator in Paris for more than fifty years. She reigned supreme at her shop on the corner of rue Bonaparte and rue Jacob (now a chic and popular Laduree patisserie/tea room) and was legendary both for her style and her reluctance to actually sell any of the furniture, art, decorative objects and paintings in her highly original gallery. It’s all spelled out on the pages of ‘The World of Madeleine Castaing’. Castaing's neoclassical taste in color and decor were counterbalanced with her consistently with-it, glamorous appearance even into her late 90s. But just a decade or two ago, design and style seemed to have left her behind. Castaing’s life-long preference for cozy Napoleon III furnishings, her florid carpets, the decorative floral and striped wallpaper and her distinctive 18th century English furniture seemed a little dowdy and dated. Still, she was a heroine and a trendsetter to leading decorators like Jacques Grange, a protégé, and to historians and collectors of art and design. Now, Castaing is the height of chic. Glancing through the pages of the book, it's shocking to see that so many of her neoclassical rooms, her décor for her country house, Leves, and the Malmaison rooms, look current and bracingly fresh. “Beauty in a room derives from a touch of mystery”—Madeleine Castaing Today she is the height of chic once more. Her idiosyncratic design sensibility inspires young designers like Miles Redd in New York, as well as high-profile decorators like Michael Smith in Los Angeles, and Stephen Sills in New York, who choose her ocelot-patterned carpet. Chic young couples in Paris channel her eccentric mix of antiques and spike their rooms with Castaing’s floral stripe wallpaper, flat-pitched black lamp shades, and the neurasthenic little bamboo chairs and tables she favored. Fashion designer Christian Lacroix is among her greatest admirers. “During the French decades of militant modernism, Madeleine Castaing lavished her rooms with pattern and fringe, crystal chandeliers, and a feeling of nostalgia for the style of Napoleon III,” said Lacroix in his witty design book, ‘Styles of Today’ (Le Promeneur, 1995). “She lived to see her style admired and uncontested.” “I don’t care if a piece of furniture is ‘good’. What interests me is its secret life, which only becomes apparent in an ideal ensemble, in a kind of perfect harmony.”—Madeleine Castaing, quoted in ‘The World of Madeleine Castaing’ Castaing, whose iconic shop on the Left Bank was a must-see for a coterie of design fans, displayed there her passion for Veronese green, crimson, jade green, turquoise and shocking pink on walls and as accents. The result was a nervy combination of French history with an irreverent dash of kitsch. As she established her career as a decorator, working for clients like Jean Cocteau in the austere post-war forties and fifties, Castaing muscled her way through high-Victorian and Napoleon III styles, as well as richly gilded Russian and Swedish antiques and she was a trend-setter with Orientalism, Charles X and Biedermeier, which were also not at all fashionable in France at the time. Castaing never did classical French interiors with de rigueur Louis XV and XVI furniture. She loved the confection of elaborate swagged curtains, banana-leaf patterned carpets, colorful Majolica ceramics, and eccentric pieces like her Napoleon III-era side chairs with gilded wood frames carved to resemble twisted rope. Emily Evans Eerdmans has captured her mythic décor and masterful use of color in archival images presenting Castaing’s work over five decades. Madeleine and her adoring husband Marcellin were key members of the artistic community of Montparnasse in the 1920s and 30s, and became patrons, fans, and friends with writers, musicians and artists. “Madeleine Castaing was always irreverent. She brilliantly created pure Napoleon III, but tweaked it with eccentricity based on her unerring taste. Castaing: a bit textbook but with lots of side notes.” —Houston designer, J. Randall Powers A conversation about Madeleine Castaing The Style Saloniste chats to Andrew Virtue, Interior Designer, Long Beach and Los Angeles “I acquired a pair of late 19th century English Staffordshire ceramic garden stools at the Madeleine Castaing estate auction,’ said Virtue. “I had to have them. I wanted a piece of design history. I bought one of them because I loved the rare lavender color of the of the transferware pattern. It sits at the end of my bed, piled with books.” “Madeleine Castaing loved colorful ceramics, and collected lots of Majolica ware and late 19th century English pottery—at a time when it was not fashionable,” said Virtue. “I was always been inspired by MC and her taste, her mysterious and charming personality.” “MC had such a great and sure sense of vibrant, contrasting color—and a love of jade green, turquoise, shocking pink, which she would throw in as accents in a rather sedate room.” Noted Virtue. “These colors would give the rooms a spark.” “I always admired the way she went against the grain with design and color,” said Andrew Virtue. “She was 40 or 50 years ahead of her time. She had a sense of fantasy, and an idiosyncratic and whimsical sense of the 19th C. She was never boring. She never did the expected…and she never did the ‘Frenchy-French’ expected Louis-Louis furniture that all the other designers worked with.” “As important as the element of fantasy to Madeleine’s roomscapes, were comfort and practicality, and every detail was thought of by Leves’s chatelaine: the patterned ocelot carpet that hid muddy footsteps; a well-stocked bar tucked behind a blind arch in the corner of the salon; the guest rooms outfitted with assorted furniture and trays to unpack one’s wardrobe with ease.”—Emily Evans Eerdmans, ‘The World of Madeleine’ Credits: ‘The World of Madeleine Castaing’ by Emily Evans Eerdmans, with a Foreword by Jacques Grange and a Preface by Frederic Castaing, published by Rizzoli, October 2010. Chapters include Le Style Malmaison, A Universe Cocteau-Castaing, In Search of Lost Time (in reference to Proust), and highly detailed information and illustration on Leves, the chic and elegant country house on which Castaing lavished her design talents. There’s also a very useful and practical section on fabrics and carpets (many still available), and excellent close-ups of furniture details, trims, curtains and upholstery. Bravo, Emily. All images published on THE STYLE SALONISTE are used with express permission by Rizzoli.
We moved from our small 17th century cottage in a village in Cornwall, to a Georgian home located in the heart of the Cornish countryside. It has so many amazing original features, an incredible garden and is just everything we ever dreamed of. There will, of course, be so many renovations to come,
MADELEINE CASTAING (1894-1992) Madeleine Magistry épousa très tôt le critique d'art Marcellin Castaing, dont elle avait fait la connaissance alors qu'elle était adolescente. Leur rencontre, des plus romantiques, s'était conclue par un « enlèvement...
The Madeleine has everything you never knew you needed – a games room, scullery, dressing room. Plus, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and a theatre. Woah.
Name: Madeleine and Karl Stamer Location: Caulfield; Melbourne, Australia Size: 110 square metres (1,184 square feet) Years lived in: 2 years; Owned for 10 years The minute you walk into this wonderful family home- filled with color and beautiful artwork, much of it created by Madeleine- you wish it was your own. The mixture of vintage, new, and handmade/handcrafted has been collected over time and is well thought-out and displayed so effortlessly.
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Celebrated photographer Lars Tunbjörk died on April 8
