Although Coco Chanel never visited China, the country fuelled her imagination and still has significance to the brand ...

and because Coco Chanel was a collector of Coromandel lacquered screens, displaying them around her apartment on Rue Cambon. Among her pieces was a screen that featured a scene depicting West Lake ...

As you enter Coco Chanel’s perfectly preserved apartment at rue Cambon, one of the first things you see is a lacquered 19th Century Coromandel screen, inlaid with mother of pearl, depicting the ...

In an apartment at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris, Gabrielle Chanel decorated her walls with coromandel, Chinese lacquered screens made of ebony wood. One screen on the wall of the study depicts the ...

Coco Chanel never visited Hangzhou, the Chinese city known as “heaven on earth,” but her imagination did, as she was mesmerized by black lacquer coromandel screens, one of which depicted the ...

LONDON - "Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto," the major retrospective about the life of Gabrielle Chanel, founder of the Parisian couture house, will travel to Shanghai this summer as it ...