|
Happy Fall Friends,
Halloween is just around the corner, and this holiday pushes the Fall season into high gear. This time of year, I often arrange fresh and dried flowers from my summer garden onto my table utilizing a mix of gourds and pumpkins and other bounties of the season. I think our root cellar designs' Chine Lantern wallpaper in my New York City dining room makes a pretty backdrop for these arrangements. Chine Lantern has become one of our more popular wallpaper patterns, and designers seem to love it for the unusual and oversized pattern.
Fun fact about the inspiration for this design- over the years, I discovered Chinese Paper Lanterns, a pretty dried orange flower with a paper-like quality and a hearty stem. They look great on a Fall table. When creating our Chine Lantern wallpaper pattern I was inspired by the texture and shape of these pretty flowers.The technical name is Physalis Alkakengi, and they are a relative to the Cape Gooseberry, and the cousin to peppers, tomatoes and petunias. They grow in the Southern European and South Asian regions of the world, and these perennials grow to tall stalks with buds of flowers on the stem. The flowers start off white then eventually age into this papery, orange color which acts as a cover surrounding a round fruit inside. They are a lovely bell-shape, and the fruit is tasteless with some sources suggesting the berries can be toxic. To read more about his unique flower, check out my Paper Lantern Story.
Best wishes, Tamara
| 
