Category: Furniture

Fornasetti exhibition collage. Photos: Charis White/interiors blog

Fornasetti exhibition – Rome

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A recent visit to Rome was a last-minute decision and a treat which sent me into Instagram overdrive (many apologies!) with snaps of frescos, classical architecture and palazzos. With no time for planning, you can imagine my intense delight when we got there to find a retrospective exhibition of Fornasetti design on at the 15th Century Palazzo Altemps. So – lovely readers – because there were no photographic restrictions, I am excited to be able to share with you a tailor-made blog tour of the exhibition …

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Collage of Art For Living Exhibition on Charis White interiors blog

Art for Living exhibition at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler

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The art world has seen some eye-wateringly expensive pieces being sold at auction recently but Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler’s current Art for Living exhibition (6 – 21 December 2017) at their Pimlico Road showroom is exciting for two reasons. Firstly, the selling exhibition shows how to use contemporary art in room sets with both antique and contemporary furniture and secondly, the prices are in the more affordable region of (£1,500 – £15,000) – think high street sofa to budget kitchen.

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Bobbin, the nation’s favourite bauble

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Collage 2017-11-01 19_12_08

Since November 2017 when I first published the following post, B****n has become the nation’s favourite interior design bauble.  And even though I don’t wish to fuel the creation of a design cliche, I thought it might be timely this Christmas to see how what might be considered a micro trend can become something much bigger.

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