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I am delighted to welcome as a new sponsor Charlotte & Ivy. Charlotte & Ivy is a curated web-store with hand picked selections and preppy modern designs. They have been called the J.Crew of home furnishings. They specialize in beautiful finds, superb rug selection, great beds, and are a little Chinoiserie crazy!

Charlotte & Ivy is run primarily by three 30-something designers. After years of working in the design industry, they realized how hard it is for shoppers to find the gorgeous pieces decorators do. Websites are overstuffed with choices and everything blends together. Charlotte & Ivy strives to offer exclusively hand-picked pieces, a luxury boutique experience with the best prices. They shop the marketplaces, scour the antique stores, and work with specialty craftsman to create interesting custom upholstery for their online luxury collection. Whether you love French country, Hollywood glamour, Chinoiserie, or cottage furniture, count on Charlotte & Ivy to help you express your style! Their unique pieces have superior style, value, and design.

Charlotte & Ivy thinks customer service is as important as hand-picking hard to find products they'd want in their own homes. They end up doing a lot of personal shopping for people on hard to find pieces too! Right now they are working on gilded beds and Gustavian style bedrooms.

If you are looking for advice or a special item, they can always help. Their first love in decorating was collecting blue and white porcelain and trying to find the perfect Chinese Chippendale dining chair. What is yours? Let Charlotte & Ivy know what you're looking for and they'll find it.

They have graciously offered this navy and natural chevron blanket (with a retail price of $170.00) to a lucky follower of Chinoiserie Chic. It measures 60"x 50" and is 100% cotton and made in the USA. To enter, go visit their website and find your favorite piece. Come back and leave one (1) comment on this post telling the piece you love most and where you'd use it in your home. You have until midnight ET on Thursday, May 16, 2013 to enter. The winner of the chevron blanket will be announced on Friday, May 17, 2013. Open to U.S. residents only.

Chevron blanket giveaway

Palace Pagoda Bed

***And now, the winner of my blogiversary giveaway chosen randomly using RANDOM.ORG is pattyswells. Congratulations! Please email me!***

Since I pinned this photo above and chair just below, I've been meaning to track down the fabric. I love it  - it reminds me of Clarence House's David Hicks The Vase a bit, but I think I will like the colorways even more. It turns out it is by a new company called Home Accents Fabrics by Ronnie Gold, a line of well-priced fabrics and it is called Cachepot. Calico Corners carries it here for $29.99 a yard, and I suspect we will begin finding it online for even less. I'm not sure about all the colorways - I have shown what I have found so far on this fabric.

Most of my favorite Chinoiserie fabrics have been around for quite a while. This is a new Chinoiserie winner in my book. What do you think, isn't it yummy? This week I will also feature another new Chinoiserie fabric I've become smitten with. Have you entered my blogiversary giveaway here?

Also, please visit The Glam Pad today for the finale of my virtual makeover of The Chinese Village House.

For the living room of my fantasy Chinoiserie Chic house, I have stried the walls in a deep coral. A large Audobon flamingo print hangs above the Aidan sofa from Crate and Barrel. An oversized Fornasetti ottoman serves as the cocktail table. The pair of blue egg chairs in wool and cashmere is quite fun. A pair of Marjorie Skouras chandeliers in black will be quite dramatic against the walls. The pillows are coral velvet zebra. A zebra rug picks up the black and white in the room. The end tables are gilded bamboo with mirrored shelves. Don't forget to enter my blogiversary giveaway here.

1. A blue and white Chinese ginger jar from The Pink Pagoda
2. A $75.00 art store gift certificate from Kerry Steele
3. A $75.00 store gift certificate from Charlotte & Ivy
4. A decoupage wastebasket of your choice from Marye - Kelley
5. An eDesign by me of a room in your home
6. A Dana Gibson pink leopard glasses case
7. A copy of Domino - The Book of Decorating
8. A yard of gorgeous high end Chinoiserie fabric

The giveaway begins now and ends next Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 12 midnight ET with the winner announced on Friday, May 10, 2013. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. To enter, you must comment here, not by email. Email subscribers of Chinoiserie Chic can click on the email of this post on the title "Blogiversary Giveaway" to be directed here to comment. You can receive up to three entries by:

1. Leaving a comment here

2. Leaving a second comment here that you follow me on Pinterest

3. Visiting the web stores of my giveaway sponsors and leaving a third comment here naming a specific item you would love in your own home:

The Pink Pagoda - for the most chic and affordable Chinoiserie giclees, a stunning collection of blue and white Chinese porcelain, and Chinoiserie accessories galore

Kerry Steele - for elegant abstract art that will work perfectly in any style home, adding a modern and sophisticated element

Charlotte & Ivy - for the most beautifully curated collection of furniture, rugs, lighting, and decor for your home on the web, with lots of Chinoiserie

Marye-Kelley - for the widest selection of stunning decoupaged items for the home - their wastepaper baskets turn the functional into the sublime

Thanks for participating and for four fun and fabulous years of Chinoiserie with 2,340 posts and much more to come!

My four year blogiversary is this coming Saturday. This week I will be creating a new fantasy inspiration board each day, with the announcement of my giveaway on Friday.

Today I have created a really chic and glamorous unisex nursery. The wallpaper is Scalamandre Zebras in a beautiful purple, great for either a boy or a girl. The crib is the first ever entirely acrylic crib available at The Well Appointed House as is the Dorothy Draper style changing table and dresser. The dragon lamp is Jonathan Adler. The chandelier is by Marjorie Skouras. The Crate and Barrel Tess chair is in a deep purple called grape. A large abstract by artist Kerry Steele is the perfect finishing touch. I love the idea of original art in the nursery. This room can easily become a guest bedroom or an office down the road it is so ultra sophisticated.

If you missed yesterday's post, below is my fantasy dining room and my virtual makeover of the backyard at the Chinese Village House.



Have you seen that twenty interior designers including Mary McDonald decorated dollhouses for a charitable event? Here are her three rooms via A Lovely Being. You can see all the dollhouses here.





For those of you new to Chinoiserie Chic who missed my Chinoiserie Chic I'm a Giant Challenge Dollhouse and my Dragon Dollhouse, here are the links to my reveals - click on the captions for the links. I created two Chinoiserie dollhouses and twelve rooms all filled with Chinoiserie!

The I'm a Giant Challenge Dollhouse

The Dragon Dollhouse

This coming Saturday, May 4, 2013 is my four year blog anniversary - with well over 2,000 posts. I plan to celebrate with a whole week of inspiration boards for each room of my fantasy Chinoiserie Chic house and the announcement of my blogiversary giveaway on Friday that you will not want to miss.

The Chinoiserie wallpaper is by Griffin & Wong "Song Sassoon" in a beautiful blue. The large circular table is silver leaf by James Mont circa 1940s. Six Frances Elkins loop chairs will surround the table. They are lacquered in white with gray leather seats. The faux malachite painted console table has gilded edges. For some fun, the console table will have a pair of Jonathan Adler Georgia breast lamps -  check it out here. A Marjorie Skouras chandelier is a wonderful focal point. A pair of antique Famille Rose Chinese garden stools will be tucked next to the dining table. My go to curtains, interlined silk taffeta, here in my favorite coral pink, will hang at the windows.

Now pop over to The Glam Pad to see my virtual makeover of the backyard of the Chinese Village House for inspiration on bringing Chinoiserie outdoors.