A blog reader put me to task for not connecting Yves Saint Laurent's Opium and the idea of spice in my most recent treatise on spices. How could I be so foolish? Until recently, Soft(er) Orientals have always seemed like a half-baked idea to me. Yet an inclination for extremity and wholeness in fragrance is dangerous.…
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Samuel Pepys, the famous British diarist who often ended his daily entries with "and so to bed," wrote in 1663, "bought my wife a chintz, that is, a painted Indian callico, for to line her new study, which is very pretty." During the later part of the seventeenth century, Indian callico or chintz became a fashionable fabric to use in the decoration of bedrooms and small cabinets or dressing rooms.
“And so to Bed” Museum of Fine Arts Boston
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Wonderfully decorative, black lacquered 1920's, Chinese opium table with beautiful hand painted decoration and mother of pearl inlay. The legs fold
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For some reason recently, there. For some reason recently, there's been commenters who aren't regulars coming on this site and telling me that one story or another I'm covering is an utter waste of time. I mean, thanks, but that's se
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Cloisonné enamel with a whiff of something else. Chinese opium
A blue and white 'scholars' garlic-head vase Qing dynasty, Kangxi