Today Decorati guest blogger and antique expert Buzz Kaplan of The Buzz on Antiques, continues to elaborate on the history of the Chinoiserie style. Click here to read Antique Terminology: Chinoiserie Part I.
This European interpretation of the mysterious Orient combined real elements with pure fancy. The result was often wildly whimsical and even silly, which makes it even more appealing.
Chinoiserie as a design motif became a decorative fairyland where madarins lived in fanciful mountain...
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