How to Use chinoiserie in a Sentence

chinoiserie

noun

• Plates are toile, wallpaper is chinoiserie, and when in doubt, throw in a chintz.
  — Vogue, 11 Mar. 2021
• Check out the beadboard and fun blue chinoiserie wallpaper in the downstairs bath.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 25 May 2022
• Oozing with chinoiserie style, this cute little shelf is perfect for the nooks and crannies in your home.
  — Courtney Thompson, CNN Underscored, 9 Apr. 2021
• In it, Mona is wearing red trousers and sitting on a yellow sofa in a chinoiserie room.
  — Lisa Cregan, House Beautiful, 19 Jan. 2017
• The fabric is a black-and-navy metallic floral chinoiserie jacquard, with luxe pearl fastenings along the side.
  — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, 28 July 2017
• First there were these chinoiserie pumpkins, which made us think blue and white might be the ultimate fall color scheme.
  — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 20 Oct. 2017
• One of my prized possessions is a vintage pink chinoiserie opera coat with big cuffs and feathers.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2021
• The flagship store, with its Shanghai Art Deco touches and chinoiserie, is the best way to experience the brand.
  — Janice Leung Hayes, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
• The commode is fitted with tôle-dorée doors that are curved like rolling waves and feature detailed chinoiserie landscapes.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
• How about that conversation in the dining room, between the classic China-trade blue and the mod-chinoiserie Hicks brown?
  — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 4 Aug. 2013
• The series' scenic artist even painted many chinoiserie pieces for the Sharma family sets.
  — Mary Elizabeth Andriotis, House Beautiful, 25 Mar. 2022
• Yews clipped in the shape of chubby pagodas surround the performance space, adding an element of chinoiserie flair.
  — Melissa Biggs Bradley, House Beautiful, 1 Sep. 2013
• Engraved, high-fashion chinoiserie scenes decorate the body of the caddies.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 28 Jan. 2020
• Artful pieces like a chinoiserie cocktail table can add a unique element of character to the room, so this piece remained in the library.
  — Joe Fava, sun-sentinel.com, 8 July 2021
• Accordingly, the apartment is dotted with enough chinoiserie to appease any member of the Palm Beach glitterati.
  — Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, House Beautiful, 11 Mar. 2019
• Lightly coat the pumpkin with another layer of decoupage medium to seal the chinoiserie design.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2020
• Style your traditional blue and white chinoiserie with simple red containers, or swap them out with blue, white and red variations.
  — Ap McClatchy, The Mercury News, 24 June 2019
• Antique furniture – such as a yellow chinoiserie dressing table found in Eliza’s room and chests used to house bathroom sinks – have been thoughtfully placed.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• The rehabilitation doesn't just hit all the right chinoiserie pleasure points.
  — Gary Baum, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2019
• At dinner women in crinolines and powdered wigs play Baroque string instruments, a harpsichord, and a harp under the gleaming chinoiserie.
  — Alex Halberstadt, Town & Country, 9 Oct. 2015
• For two of her rooms, Young selected wallpaper by Gracie, the beloved purveyor of chinoiserie panels.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 24 Dec. 2019
• Created by artist Don Moyer, these designs started out as drawings in his sketchbook and feature a mixture of French toile and chinoiserie motifs.
  — Ann Lien, House Beautiful, 12 Dec. 2019
• Today, top designers use them in a variety of ways: In a living room by designer Meg Braff (shown at top), a large-scale chinoiserie screen acts as a stand-in for wallpaper, bringing texture to the room.
  — Elizabeth Pash, House Beautiful, 28 Apr. 2021
• The production design remains a fairly static pageant of hand-me-down chinoiserie, with a set and costumes that have been passed among four companies before winding up in Chicago.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Furniture, mostly from the early 20th century with some chinoiserie mixed in (much of it from the Alexandria apartments of el-Habashi’s relatives), sits on a concrete floor inlaid with an expanse of teak wood.
  — Hussein Omar Simon Watson, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• In the court of Versailles, during the 17th and 18th centuries, chinoiserie motifs were highly prevalent, and many, if not most, textile techniques in existence first originated in Asia.
  — Madeleine Luckel, Vogue, 20 Jan. 2018
• Some of these designs were later used as inspiration for the first chinoiserie designs created in Europe.
  — Elizabeth Pash, House Beautiful, 6 Sep. 2019
• Multitasking furnishings can also be found off the open-concept kitchen, where a drop-leaf chinoiserie table displays objects but can also double as a work space in a pinch.
  — Laurel Benedum, ELLE Decor, 16 Mar. 2021
• Tuck small chinoiserie boxes or bud vases into areas that need a little extra detail.
  — Ap McClatchy, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• Introduce the East to the West Blending chinoiserie and clean midcentury lines keeps either from becoming themey.
  — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Aug 2024