Spotted (and admired) on Instagram: hand-embroidered table linens from Oeuvres Sensibles in Marseille. Owner Sarah Espeute is a French artist-designer who uses “everyday imagery to tell familiar stories through functional yet aesthetically charming textiles,” as she says. Using traditional methods of embroidery, she creates personalized trompe-l’oeil table linens that “recall poetic and convivial scenes of shared meals.” Pieces are made to order and take a minimum of three weeks.
Here’s a look:
Above: The Table de Potager features antique linen and cotton hand embroidered with black cotton thread; €590. Above: The design features “four plates, one cabbage, one baguette, one butterfly, one bottle of wine, and one snail.” Above: The Table de la Mere features “four Béarn plates with two oysters, two whelks, two mussels, two clams, one crab, one baguette, and one jug”; €650. Above: A detail of the Table de la Mere. Above: The Table du Potager, with cabbage and fennel fronds as decor. Above: The Table de Printemps includes dragonflies, butterflies, one fly, and dozens of spring blooms; €850 (includes four napkins). Above: The Chemin de Potager runner is €290.
![Flat-pack furniture may seem like a new invention, borne from the modern-day realities of small apartments and frequent moves—but leave it to Howe London to, well, dismantle that assumption.
Take-apart furniture, the antiques retailer and bespoke furniture maker points out, has roots in old French design and portable campaign furniture. And Howe London’s own take on the tradition, the Knock-Down Wardrobe, is designed, they say, “to easily dismantle or ‘knock-down’ in the same practical way the French conceived their ‘armoires’ in the 18th and 19th [centuries] and reminiscent of military campaign furniture intended to uphold a degree of home comfort for officers traveling abroad.”
With time-tested construction and nods to old design, the Knock-Down Wardrobe is well primed to fit with the practicalities of contemporary life (small doorways, for example). Take a look.
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