Flash Back Friday Favorites: Cherryfields

dransfield-and-ross-ed0710-01-lgnGood Morning Lacquered Lifers! Here is another installment of Flash Back Friday Favorites. This Friday I am featuring another one of my absolute favorites, Cherryfields, the Georgian Revival home of designers Dransfield & Ross. In an interesting twist, the designers purchased this home from Nancy Pyne, of Pyne Hollyhock fame. Where did she move when she left Cherryfields? Well she simply swapped homes with the designers of course! That house can be seen in last week’s Flash Back Friday Favorites post. These photos of Cherryfields were published in the June 2010 issue of Elle Decor, and from day one I have been inspired by these photos, and to this day I continue to be inspired. The butler’s pantry (below) and the study came in very handy in our restoration here at Church Street. Happy Friday! Dransfield & Ross Kitchen 2dransfield and ross 3
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Photos via Elle Decor

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Friday Finds: Tin Tobacco

Tobacco_Leaf_Tin_PlateGood Morning Lacquered Lifers! Remember that post I did a while back, Chewing on Mottahedeh’s Tobbaco Leaf? I love that china pattern, as I know most of you do, but china like that isn’t exactly something you go to the store and purchase on whim. Its either a registry item, or gifted over a number of years one piece at a time … but maybe not anymore! Now you can have something in your home that gives you the look of Tobacco Leaf, without the hefty price tag. This tin plate, yes tin, is available through Furbish Studio, and features a near identical pattern to the one on Mottahedeh’s China. And at $18/plate, that’s quite the deal. And hey, they’re tin, so you could even take them on a chic picnic when the weather warms up! Happy Friday! IMG_3990

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Chewing on Mottahedeh’s Tobacco Leaf

IMG_3990Good Morning Lacquered Lifers! Today we’re going to spotlight on one of my favorite china patterns, Tobacco Leaf by Mottahedeh. This pattern has long been a favorite, and while I didn’t register for this pattern, it was definitely in the running. Honestly, I had gotten so excited about my own china patterns over last year, Herend Fish Scale and Meissen Ming Dragon, that I had almost forgotten my love of Tobacco Leaf … until I went to New Orleans this spring. It was in New Orleans that I popped into Leontine Linens, met the wonderful Jane Scott Hodges, and found myself starting right at the Tobacco Leaf pattern atop an extremely chic monogrammed placemat, and layered with an equally chic monogrammed napkin. See photo above. Tobacco 2The pattern, which was developed circa 1780, depicts a flowering tobacco leaf, which we all know was of extreme importance to colonial trade. Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 10.27.10 AMAs I said above, my love affair with Mottahedeh’s Tobacco Leaf was rekindled when I visited the Leontine Linens showroom, however, that fire was stoked when I received my copy of Jane Scott Hodges’ Linens for Every Room and Occasion and saw that Tobacco leaf is featured prominently throughout its pages. Screen Shot 2014-11-03 at 10.27.16 AMScreen Shot 2014-11-03 at 10.27.07 AMThe best part? Jane Scott has paired Tobacco Leaf with Herend  Fish Scale. And it looks fabulous. Uh oh – I see a collecting opportunity here. Tobacco Leaf Rim Soup Bowls here I come.

Photos by Lacquered Life & Via Linens for Every Room and Occasion & Scully & Scully

Mottahedeh Tobacco Leaf is available at Scully & Scully

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