Shabby Chic

Shabby Chic ( literally: shabby chic ) is a furnishing style with an eclectic mix of heirlooms, flea market bargains and home-made one, the colors ranging from pastel and bright natural colors and traces understands as part of the aesthetic concept. Furnishings in this nostalgic style have recently been made ​​by specialized commercial enterprises and advertised in home magazines.

Formation

The style originated in the 1980s in the UK following the establishment of large, old country houses of the gentry and was originally a non-commercial counter-movement to the inclination of the upper middle class, is to purchase costly Innenaustattungen Victorian style.

Opened in 1989, the British stylist Rachel Ashwell a store in Santa Monica, California, where she acted with originals from flea markets. She is now, by virtue of numerous labels in Culver City, California, include the company Shabby Chic fire LCC, which is also the oxymoron Shabby Chic could be protected as a trademark. The company manufactures, among other furniture, where the traces of wear are produced artificially as with jeans.

As is stated on the website of the company, it is the principle to transfer the aesthetics of jeans on the interior: " Comfort, the beauty of imperfection, the fascination of worn objects, and the appeal of simple practical life, these are the cornerstones of the protected trademark Shabby Chic. Like the cozy familiarity of a well worn faded jeans, the dilapidated elegance of an Italian villa, the worn grandeur faded velvet or not matching floral china from Grandma's Attic is the trademark for the revived appreciation of the used car, Beloved and Worn, for respect for the natural development and respect for the simple and rational. "

Features

When Shabby Chic primarily natural materials are used. Characteristic are natural or artificially induced wear as abgeplatzer paint, seemingly unprocessed, coarse wood and textiles with old patterns. Typical of the Shabby Chic are delicate, mostly dull colors. Just as the colors often also show the shapes pattern of Rococo, Louis XV, Chippendale and the Neo-Baroque.

For Rachel Ashwell are the three most important elements for the shabby-chic style, " a chandelier, it is romantic and glamorous at the same time. A pastel vintage sofa with comfortable pillows, because it gives the whole room immediately coziness. And finally, fresh cut flowers - using them right away something living comes into the room "!

Shabby Chic fire LCC also enjoys working with symbols from the feudal past, such as crowns and crest elements to give their products the appearance of age and respectability.