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    May 04, 2022 5 minutes

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    De Gournay Chinoiserie

    Esteemed English design house de Gournay is revered worldwide for its exquisite hand-painted chinoiserie – garden scenes filled with birds and flowers based on historic wallpapers from grand European houses in the 17th and 18th centuries inspired by original Chinese wallcoverings. De Gournay created a new colourway of its Siam Chinoiserie for its recently renovated Paris showroom (above). Festooned with the lush flora and fauna of South East Asia, it has an enveloping elegance and tranquillity. All of the charming details were painted by hand onto white Williamsburg paper, which captures the look of an 18th-century, pigment-rich, dead-flat distemper ground, creating a multi-layered texture and setting a majestic mood of historical authenticity.

    Siam Chinoiserie wallpaper on White Williamsburg is available from degournay.com

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