#mille-fleurs

[periodinteriors]

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940), Figures in an Interior: Intimacy, Music, Selection of Books, and Work (Decorative Panels for Doctor Vaquez’s Library), 1896, glue-based paint on canvas.

[tanuki-kimono]

Impressive craftmanshift for this mille-fleurs antique box made in Japan during Meiji-era for oversea export

[proartsblog]

The Montacute Knight tapestry, also knovn as Le Chevalier tapestry, France.

[jenbekmanprojects]

Mille-Fleurs by Brea Souders

(and a DEAR DAVE one-year subscription)

In the newsletter, Charlie writes:

Placed on a patch of grass, a mirror reflects the flowers atop it and the cloudless sky overhead, bridging the earthly with the celestial, the serene and the surreal. Deceptively simple yet refined, Mille-Fleurs references the 15th- and 16th-century motif of the same name, which featured a background made of thousands of flowers and was used in tapestry and other applied arts. Brea Souders’s entirely unique visual language has caught the eye of many a notable publication, including DEAR DAVE, which features her work in its current issue.

[deadheading-blog]

Zeitgeist Anecdote

I first saw some mille-fleurs prints in the house of my mother's friend in the form of a massive tapestry on the wall of her permanently damp and cold house.  She was however Italian, exotic and exuberant and every time we went to her house she'd cook us pizza with capers on.  None of us have ever been entirely sure what capers were, not even her; and to this day I am only sure that they are disgusting.  She looks like Sophia Loren and speaks 3 languages.  She also has the three things every Italian needs: an affair with a married man called Alberto; a black and white cat called Lala and a small, cool apartment in Naples that she lets out to fund her trips to South America canoeing.