How chinoiserie won the West

The Boston Globe | August 7, 1997| | Copyright

From England to Holland, from Germany to Portugal, people in Europe couldn't get enough of what the French called chinoiserie, or things decorated in the Chinese style. The English Mrs. Montagu was one. In 1750 she wrote a glowing account of her new "Chinese" dressing room, which was done up "like the temple of an Indian god." Some years earlier, women in an Italian household had embroidered a linen apron with Chinese motifs. There were butterflies and a building that could pass for a pagoda. Among the birds was an ostrich, native to Africa. Do not adjust your set. This is not a National ...

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