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French bedroom setting with bombees

Decorating the Bedroom

  The bedroom is the most private room in the home. Some of us see the bedroom as a functional space designed to promote comfort and good sleep. Some of us see the bedroom as an intimate and personal space where we can be surrounded by personal possessions and relax at the end of the day. Either way, the…

May 13, 2012

Toiles de Jouy

  Nothing is more French than ‘Toiles de Jouy’. Toiles de Jouy is a printed cloth most famously produced by the manufactory of Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf at the French town of Jouy-en-Josas, in north-central France. Often just called ‘toiles’, this fabric usually has a white or off-white background on which a repeated pattern depicting a delicate…

April 16, 2012

The French Bergere

  The French bergere brings elegance and comfort together in a timeless French design. Before the eighteenth century chairs were often rigid, upright in appearance with straight backs and designed to bestow an air of status upon the sitter. During the reign of Louis XV, however, chairs in grand homes started to fall into either of two…

September 19, 2011

Latest project: Villa Athena, Wentworth Falls

Christophe Living’s recent design project encapsulates the very best of French design and comfort. Last year were approached by two Sydney businessmen, who after years of living in Sydney had the growing desire to fulfil their mutual dream to create a French provincial boutique hotel in the Blue Mountains. As fate would have it, upon looking for…