Chinoiserie is often expressed in the decorative arts of Europe, and its expression in architecture was entirely in the field of whimsical follies.

Notable, too, is that the British, in fact Europeans generally, had long nurtured a taste for the aesthetic exuberance of such “ Asian exoticism ” design, as displayed in innovative Indo-Saracenic style and also in their taste for Chinoiserie and Japanned.

Chinoiserie, a French term, signifying " Chinese-esque ", and pronounced ) refers to a recurring theme in European artistic styles since the seventeenth century, which reflect Chinese artistic influences.

The interest in Japanese verse forms can be placed in a context of the late Victorian and Edwardian revival of interest in Chinoiserie and Japonism as witnessed in the 1890s vogue for William Anderson's Japanese prints donated to the British Museum, performances of Noh plays in London, and the success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mikado ( 1885 ).

Chinoiserie in a broader scope refers to a mixture of Eastern and Western stylistic elements for both the decoration and shape.

In the mid-18th to 19th century, the British aristocracy developed a passion for Chinoiserie, which affected not only furniture and ornaments, but fashion and society as well ; upper-class gentlemen enjoyed dressing up in dragon and mandarin robes on festive occasions.

Generally, the insatiable craze for Asian exoticism relished in those earlier periods, testamentary in their parallel Chinoiserie expression, likewise, ushered in this latter colonial British fascination with the luxuriant exoticism found in the indigenous Indian design milieu, whose characteristics includes the following vocabulary list of design elements and motifs ( often paralleling and expanding upon the already ornateness of the earlier Venetian ’ s unique Gothic-Moorish, also known as Venetian Gothic architecture ad-mixture ):

In the 18th century, as Chinese vases and other decorative objects began to arrive in Europe, there was a surge of popularity for Chinoiserie, The painters Watteau, and Francois Boucher painted Chinese scenes as they imagined them, and Catherine the Great decorated a room in her palace in the Chinese style.

It was also the buyer of a Chinoiserie tapestry for 169, 250 pounds.

* Georgian Britain, 1714 – 1837, covering Palladianism, Rococo, Chinoiserie, Neoclassicism, the Regency, the influence of Chinese, Indian and Egyptian styles, and the early Gothic Revival

Though often unscientific and incomplete, their works inspired the development of Chinoiserie and a series of debates comparing Chinese and Western cultures.

The landscape Alexander Park has several Chinoiserie structures, notably the Chinese Village.

Other Cameron's interiors include the Waiters ' Room, with the inlaid floor of rosewood, amaranth and mahogany and stylish Chippendale card-tables ; the Blue Formal Dining-Room, with white-and-blue silk wallpapers and Carrara marble chimneys ; the Chinese Blue Drawing Room, a curious combination of Adam style with the Chinoiserie ; the Choir Anteroom, with walls lined in apricot-colored silk ; and the columned boudoir of Alexander I, executed in the Pompeian style.

By contrast, the serious transformations that Chinese models effected in the eighteenth century, on the plain style of Early Georgian English furniture, notable in the cabriole leg, or on the " naturalistic " style of English landscape gardening, to take two clear examples, are not considered instances of " Chinoiserie ".

Direct imitation of Chinese designs in faience began in the late 17th century, was carried into European porcelain production, most naturally in tea wares, and peaked in the wave of rococo Chinoiserie ( ca.

The Long Gallery's Chinoiserie decoration was restored in 1993 at the direction of Gerda Hnatyshyn, wife of Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn, putting back much of the furniture and artifacts that had been collected by the Machioness of Willingdon throughout her tour of China in 1926.

* The Pagodenburg ( 1716 – 1719 )-an octagonal, two story pavilion with Delft tile decoration downstairs and Chinoiserie upstairs.

Chinoiserie can be seen as in influence in many housewares throughout Europe and North America.

Chinoiserie has made a comeback since the late 20th century.

Early hints of Chinoiserie appeared in the 17th century in nations with active East India companies: England ( the British East India Company ), Denmark ( the Danish East India Company ), the Netherlands ( the Dutch East India Company ) and France ( the French East India Company ).

Chinoiserie entered the European repertory in the mid-to-late 17th century ; the work of Athanasius Kircher had a lot of influence on the study of orientalism.

Earliest hints of Chinoiserie appear in the early 17th century, in the arts of the nations with active East India Companies, Holland and England, then by mid-17th century, in Portugal as well.

His books deal almost entirely with domestic architecture, and especially with country houses in the neo-Gothic and Chinoiserie fashions which were so greatly in vogue in the middle of the 18th century.

In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture — and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.

In the mainstream of Georgian style were both Palladian architecture — and its whimsical alternatives, Gothic and Chinoiserie, which were the English-speaking world's equivalent of European Rococo.

During the period Rococo and Chinoiserie gave way to Neo-Classicism, with the Scottish architect and interior designer Robert Adam ( 1728 – 1792 ) leading the new style.

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" Chinoiserie media included imitations of lacquer and painted tin ( tôle ) ware that imitated japanning, early painted wallpapers in sheets, and ceramic figurines and table ornaments.

The exterior was based on Mughal architecture, giving the building its exotic form, the Chinoiserie style interiors are largely the work of Frederick Crace.

In the Albrechtsburg the Meissen porcelain manufactory had been started up to copy it and Chinoiserie was popular among artists and buyers.

( 2009 ) Islamic Chinoiserie: The Art of Mongol Iran, Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art, Edinburgh.

The Marble Hill house also hosts a collection of early Georgian furniture and paintings as well as the Lazenby Bequest Chinoiserie collection.

Modern interpretations of Chinoiserie incorporate modern design elements, and techniques.

Various European monarchs, such as Louis XV of France, gave special favor to Chinoiserie, as it blended well with the rococo style.

Entire rooms, such as those at Château de Chantilly, were painted with Chinoiserie compositions, and artists such as Antoine Watteau and others brought expert craftsmanship to the style.

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