China Red

 

on me:  camilla and marc puff shoulder blazer, topshop leather pants, christian louboutin's mad mary studded mary janes, vintage earrings

Since I moved to my new place I started reading books and magazines of interior design and gain great interest in different culture and design. The American, the French, the Italian, the Spanish and the Chinese etc.

Chinese antique is something I always loved and I used to have a few reproduction pieces in my previous home. Now my house decor is more in the French style but I still dream one day I could move to a bigger place and have a guess room design in the Chinese style and I find this book is very inspiring on mix new and old.

What I'm reading right now:

China Red: A Traditional Colour in Contemporary Decor (Interior Design)

China Red introduces how the color was applied in traditional interior furnishings and presents a varied selection of modern interiors that show how to use the color stylishly to create a dynamic and artistic space.

If you like Chinese or want to do some mix and match with east and west, contemporary and antique, this is a great book.

Get your copy from Amazon now.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Take A Tour of Coco Chanel's Apartment

The entrance to her apartment

Glass and guilted wheat coffee table

Chinese urn and coromandel screens

The anteroom with silk bergere chair

The sitting room

Venetian mirrors in the dining room

Inside Coco Chanel's Apartment at 31 Rue Cambon

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a virtual tour

www.coco-mademoiselle.com

It's Christmas time and make a wish!

I wish I could take a tour of Mademoiselle Chanel's apartment in Paris.

I wish I could stay in the Coco Chanel Suite at Hotel Ritz Paris for one night.

I wish I could have the Chinese antique screens in Coco's Apartment.

I wish I could have many many Chanel shoes.

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Kang Na Roo Korean Restaurant

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kang Na Roo Korean Restaurant

309-315 Clayton Road 

Clayton VIC 3168 

(03) 9543 2842

Kang Na Roo serves home style Korean food in a cozy atmosphere. 

This is some sort of restaurant that you can go for a set lunch for cheap eat 

or have barbecue dinner with friends and drink beers.

Family with young kids are always welcome.

A group of us came here to celebrate the Chinese winter festival while the others may having Christmas party.

We had to take off our shoes to sit around the rectangle table in the corner next to the cashier.
It's a bit weird but I guess that's the tradition like some Japanese restaurants

which customers need to take off their shoes and sit on tatami.
If you don't like to eat with your bare foot, don't worry that's the only table to do so.

All other customers in the restaurant except us have their shoes on. 

The menu is easy to read and side dishes are free of charge.

We ordered vermicelli with vegetables, pork with kimchi, chicken wings, 

spicy baby octopus, pork bone udon soup, spicy tofu soup and BBQ with various meat selection.
The sweet waitress cooked the barbecue for us for a while, 

then our dear friend Joe did the rest of it.

Fair price and average food however, with it's great hospitality, 

we enjoy our night together very much!

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At Home: Suzanne Rheinstein

At Home: A Style for Today with Things from the Past

by Suzanne Rheinstein (Author), Pieter Estersohn (Photographer), Margaret Russell (Foreword)

A new book by interior designer Suzanne Rheinstein.

Timeless and elegant, inspiring in everyway for a everyday home.
Get your copy from amazon now.

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From House to Home

After a whole day of arranging furnitures, moving them around, mixing and matching,

the best thing is sit down and relax in the garden and have our dinner together next to the pool 

in a warm Autumn evening.

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