une peu d'inspiration

While sipping my Cafe au Lait this morning,

I got inspired to play with some photographs.
I have a tendency to buy antiques and brocante
that are within the same color family. I just
really like muted, chalky, dusty tones and anything
that has it's original paint. I like colors
that are weathered, reminiscent of the architecture
in Nice, or a lot of places in France for that matter.

These are all items from the store except for
the paper covered encyclopedias.
I just had to include them because I adore
old white paper bound books.

I fell in love with these when I saw them. They reside
in the home of Mr. Thomas Briggs, a noted Interior Designer
from New York. He covered them with parchment paper
then added the gold embossed labels. How clever is this?
I just had to share. I've got it on my New Years Decorating
projects list to cover all my ugly books in my office with
parchment paper.

And then there are les poires. When it comes to color

nobody does it better than Mother Nature. I love going

to the marché when in France. The colors always take

my breath away.

Anyway, just a few photographs of the colors

of France.

I had to include a photograph of Thomas Briggs

home from the New York Social Dairy.

I want my bookcase to look like this.

And.. look at the boiseries!! OOH LA LA.

My next post will be about Boiseries, as

they are #3 on my

French Fashion List for Antiques

Chow for now