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" OOH LA LA "....Uncle Dougie and Renee In ' Gay Paris' !!!!

My Uncle Doug and I are considering a month in Paris. It's a great idea because I know my way around and know where to live, what to do, where to eat, shop......

And Dougie is sick- crazy fun. The perfect person for another Adventure in Paris.

He was under the impression that the homes might be stuffy and filled with antiques. I mentioned that I have genuine concern for the French, and that if they are not more careful they will have sold most of their precious antiques to the USA, South America, the rest of Europe, including Japan,

and let me not forget the 'COTE DE TEXAS' ( LOL).

Seriously, the French do love, high tech & contemporary. I love the mix as well.

I promised him an example of 'the look' that is very popular, so above picture is the 'look' I was referring to.

credits : tredir
Renee Finberg 'TELLS ALL' in her blog of her Adventures in Design

The Earl of Spenser - Al Thorpe Living History - Furniture

Who can forget this man reading the eulogy for Princess Diana ?
That's Right, this is her brother, the Earl of Spenser.
I think he is a dashing man.
The Earl of Spenser is in Tampa today signing some of the pieces of furniture that have been made to exactly duplicate ( about 40% of the collection ) furniture from his family estate going back some 400 hundred years.
He wants to leave his family home in a better condition than he found it, so he has taken part in this business venture.

I would love to take a closer look at this piece, it would suit me just fine. When I am doing floor plans for clients I usually do not use a huge blueprint sheet, I use a smaller sheet that will fit 1-4 rooms at 1/4 " scale. So this would be perfect instead of my drafting table

Bergamo Fabrics & My Work

When you are next in Venice make sure and make a little stop at the Rubelli Fabric Headquarters . I have included a little map for you. And you can get more info at their website.
http://www.rubelli.com/INTERnet/sito_v4/index.php

I use the Bill Nessen Showroom at the DCOTA ( Design Center of The America's ) in Dania Beach Florida for my Bergamo source. It is really the most wonderfully run showroom in the entire building and Bill Nessen is ALWAYS there. He is THE BEST !!!!

Any way, Bergamo carries Rubelli Fabrics ,( I am not sure how it works, I never asked ) so where ever you find a showroom that carries Bergamo, you are good to go. They will have the whole kit and caboodle.

Now this is a silk ( antique-linen-style) velvet which is so beautiful, and they have very rich colorways.

Colors that are not all over town, "Tank's G-d! "

This is an office that I did and it's window treatment and chair fabric are Bergamo Fabric.

I recovered the French Deco chair that I purchased in Paris in the same fabric. AND THEN....

came the carpet which was made to mock the fabric. There was another long carpet to coordinate running down a long hallway, the pattern of boxes and squares start to break apart in the carpet design as you walk down the hall.

Very cool, if I do say so myself.

This collectionis by DKieffer for Bergamo.

You can Click on Pic to go to sites.

Happy Hunting....Fabric is what brought me into this business.

I still want to do my own line of fabrics, it's definitely on my 'TO DO' list.

Bergamo

This is one of the MOST FABULOUS Fabric Houses in the world.
And they carry fabric for every application.

The top woven fabric over her hands is to die !