Furniture
This look uses bamboo chairs and Chinese style cupboards with metallic details and fittings. Chinese furniture is often small and portable which fits the modern lifestyle. Deeply lacquered furniture for a glossy sheen is a feature of this style. Screens and bamboo tray tables can be used in different rooms and moved easily if you want a change. You could wallpaper the doors of a plain wardrobe with a chinoiserie patterned wallpaper to add a touch of the orient.
Walls
Walls can be covered in faux silk wallpapers or chinoiserie designs of cherry blossom fabrics. The Kyoto Gardens Collection from Voyage Decoration has a bamboo and a Chinese toile design of wallpapers.
Accents
Accents are readily available by way of bamboo trays that would work on coffee tables and footstools, Porcelain figures such as dragons, items with butterfly print details, textured lamp bases and lantern light shades bring in the subtle touches that can complete the look. Vases of peonies, ferns and bonsai trees bring in a natural touch to the style.
Japanese Fabrics
The fabrics we have seen come in that will set off this modern oriental trend include the new Kyoto Gardens collection from Voyage Decoration with beautiful watercolour designs of koi carp and cranes. The Kiso has a metallic thread woven into the background and the Verlaine features a metallic tree design which will add a luxurious sheen are both in the collection. There are fabrics with geometrics that are reminiscent of bamboo trellis detailing and silks and faux silks which can all be used successfully within this style. We have fabrics with cherry blossom sprigs such as the Emi and the delicate Humming birds fabric featuring hummingbirds and lanterns.
