Charlotte Moss at Doyle

the large & small.

 lot 5418 Rococo Style Painted Daybed

Something important is happening in the Design World this week. Charlotte Moss is selling pieces from her personal Collection at Doyle Galleries on March 7th-Thursday morning at 10. Doyle has made it easy to have something large or small from Charlotte's Collection.
Read about the Auction and Charlotte here.
View the Catalog online here

(If you want to bid Live or Absentee all that can be easily arranged with Doyle- It really is easy,but get busy)

Charlotte will be signing books at Doyle in conjunction with the Auction on March 5 Tuesday night-
Read more here

The table above is Lot 5107, a Chinese Style Cream Painted Low Table Inset with a Chinese hand painted wallpaper panel. (estimate $400 to 600)


This is sure to be the most coveted of the Auction, Lot 5094 a Set of De Gournay Hand-Painted Indian Tea Paper Wallpaper Panels. Each decorated with flowering trees in porcelain pots, lined with muslin. This is a large collection of panels-and I've not doubt most Dining Rooms will accommodate them with room to spare. (estimate $2000 to 4000)
These are from Charlotte's New York Dining Room, can't wait to see the new incarnation!

You can be sure we'll be seeing new rooms in Charlotte's own spaces in the coming months...



 Here are My Favourites from the Sale, and it was hard to stop here!

Indeed the most practical of all things for me in the auction is Lot 5386 a Regency Style Mahogany Folio Stand (estimate $200 to 300)

Lot 5293 French Shagreen and Steel Cafe Table.The oval top raised on folding supports (estimate $2000 to 3000) Adore this table!

 

Lot 5196 , 20th Century School Trompe L'Oeil of Letters, Sheet Music and Instruments
& 20th Century School, Trompe L'Oeil of Barber Tools (estimate $800-1200)

I love this pair of Lamps, Lot 5058  a Pair of Chinese Style Brown and White Glazed Porcelain Vases
Each mounted as a lamp, with a silk shade. Height 18 inches. (estimate $600-900) I think Lamps are the most important addition to a room-certainly for most people it comes as close to "sculpture" in their rooms.

another Lot 5203 a Group of Horn Cups and Small Dishes with approximately 23 pieces seems like a WOW way to start a collection or round one out. I use the ones I've collected to hold pencils, earrings-So I feel these would be practical too-don't tell me any differently. (estimate $300-500)

 Lot 5097  a Set of Atelier du Vieil APT Green Marble Glazed Faience Table Articles-comprising eighteen teacups and saucers, three large cups, four small plates and eight knife rests.(estimate $400 to 600) I remember seeing pieces of this style early on in Charlotte's books-I've always associated it with her.

I love this Pair of Louis Philippe Iron Candlesticks Lot 5279, Each foliate standard on three paw feet, with a fire fan. Height 8 1/2 inches. I have a collection of sorts of candlesticks-odds and pairs-You can never have too many.

 

Lot 5278 French Zinc Jardiniere with four ring handles (estimate $300-500)-at top, & Lot 5178
Neoclassical Style Zinc Jardiniere urn form (estimate $400-600) Both are sure to have magical growing powers being that they've been in Charlotte's collection....this is not stated in the auction description.

& don't forget the curtains... Lot 5003 a Set of Three De Gournay Hand-Painted Silk Curtain Panels

Each decorated with flowering trees in porcelain pots, with jade rings and lined in silk; And a Gilt and Carved Wood Curtain Rod.(estimate $1000-2000)

Gorgeous! What better than to say these were Charlotte Moss's or that was Charlotte's!

Don't let the fact that your room is not complete to perfection at the moment-or an edition to your collection or the start of a collection doesn't have the sweep of Charlotte Moss's. 

As she says-"I have been collecting and decorating for a long time and the time has come to edit, do some redecorating, and make room for new purchases of my own."   

It's time for you to make a start or complete the story too-I think.

& as this quote from Charlotte sums it up...

see the COLLECTION at Doyle HERE, and thank you to Doyle for the Auction descriptions-In Italics 

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Details Count.

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One of the many things about  being an interior designer is finding inspiration in dressmaker details. The world of fashion and interior design are constantly overlapping-



The materials both professions use are always popping up on a coat or a chair. Couture details are always on my mind when I am using a solid fabric be it a silk, or simple cotton. One reason I still subject myself to a Harper's Bazaar issue with Miley Cyrus on the cover is for this little pearls floating in a sea of  silt. Next time you pick up a Vogue- see these touches and translate one of them into a swathe of a curtain you might want to wear.

Here are some pages from my notebook of couture tailoring details used to inspire curtain designs.

The detail ruffled band on this blouse can be used - just set in- from the leading edge of a curtain panel. It is much more appealing than a "flouncy" sort of ruffle-if a feminine touch is wanted. This little detail can also be placed on a pillow face. Again set to the inside edges of the pillow front-creating a bordered edging of sorts. Solid, soft or crisp fabrics, small stripes like the shirt here, or prints-just about any fabric, expensive or not so much, can take this addition when constructing curtains.

The fabric  of this little"ruffled band" is best doubled over or the edges flat-felled. If you are really taken with this, do a mock up in an cheap fabric to get through the trial and error phase rather than ruining your fabric.

This elaborate detailing with rows and rows of folds seamed top and bottom works as a curtain header, on a leading  panel edge or even at the bottom of a curtain hem( IF the bottom folds are left unbound). Again, No "flouncy" fuss. The folds or pleating give enough structure to add sophistication and not frills. Pressed or soft folds work for finishing off the treatment.

Experienced seamstresses only-at least do a mock up before cutting away at fabric for the actual design.


This little trick is great with stripes.Galiano obviously preferred the mitered stripes unmatched (who would question?), but I would miter them in my little curtain project. As a border, rows and rows of strips of stripes to create an entire panel look great. The reverse of this fabric should look as good as the front when the panel is finished. Straight-Unpuckered seams (that is awful)  are musts. Use as little tension on the needle as you can get away with- Without it falling apart.

Steal these couture techniques to make your curtains- Well, prettier. If you are a designer, your clients expect it & if you are venturing out on your own to sew them (impressive) or to find someone to make them- Details count.


All images are from Vogue or Haper's Bazaar back issues.
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