The Long Gallery at the Royal Pavilion of Brighton. The walls of the Long Gallery were painted with a chinoiserie design of trees, rocks, shrubs and birds against a pink background. The present scheme is a 1950s reconstruction of the original, intended to evoke a bamboo grove. Full of exotic furnishings and Chinese objets d’art, the Long Gallery uses clever decorative techniques such as iron cast to imitate bamboo, furniture in beech simulating bamboo, and carefully placed mirrors.
Late 18th and early 19th century Chinoserie wallpapers from manufacturers in France.
Image 1: Manufacture Chapillon, 1800. Papier à motif répétitif en arabesque à un chemin alternant une chinoiserie à deux personnages prenant le thé et des volutes de feuilles d'acanthe. Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b6900153b
Image 2: Papier peint à motif répétitif de Pauquet (Paris?), 1799. Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b6901072n
Image 3: Papier peint de Hartmann Risler et Cie (Rixheim), 1801. Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b69012122
Image 4: Manufacture Chapillon, 1801. Papier à motif répétitif à deux chemins, en quinconce, de carreaux ornés de motif en paravent et de deux motifs de chinoiserie. Identifier:ark:/12148/btv1b6900158d
František Drtikol :: The dancer Ervína Kupferová in The Fire Drum, 1922. “The Fire Drum” has an extravagant subtitle “African drama full of fire, color, rumble, fragrance.” Its author was the no less extravagant Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. For its time it was an ultra modern production, the sets were designed by Italian artist Enrico Prampolini. Although the photographer is not identified, its author was most likely František Drtikol (Kupferová’s husband). | src Prague National Theatre
Terrifying Halloween costume by Chai Kamrai: “Since yts want to appropriate our culture for their halloween costumes, I thought it would only be appropriate to do the same, and so I raise you the scariest halloween costume of all: WHITE NEO-COLONISING FARANG BACKPACKER CHIC”
Charles Adrien :: [Femme en costume oriental, visage voilé (Madame Routtand en Almée ?)], entre 1907 et 1930. Plaque de verre Autochrome. | src Société française de photographie
