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Article: Vive la Toile.(Christopher Moore's cotton textiles collection)(Brief Article)
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- House Beautiful
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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For nearly 250 years, the monochromatic printed cottons known as toile de Jouy have been prized for their finely detailed motifs, and these days the taste for the storytelling fabrics seems stronger than ever
Like Marie Antoinette at Versailles, Christopher Moore lives happily engulfed by toile de Jouy, the quintessentially French monochromatic cotton textiles prized for their narrative prints and finely drawn detail. From beds and walls to ironing board and dog basket, almost everything in Moore's vest-pocket apartment in a late-19th-century mansion block in London's Hammersmith district is lavished with the anecdotal fabrics first produced at the Oberkampf ...
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Article: Christopher Moore
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July 10, 1999 ;
255 words
... ... propose another name for a plaque in our Square: Christopher Moore. His weekly column, On the Edge, never fails to ... the human species, lifted my spirits. I propose Christopher Moore -- Gloom-Buster. JILL WILLCOX July 27, 1999
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