Gabrielle Chanel collected antique Coromandel screens — one of which she found so beautiful, she displayed it on the study walls of her apartment. It depicts a scene of Hangzou’s West Lake ...

From Dior to Chanel, designers have set the mood for what will be one of fashion's biggest trend in the new year—archival ...

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

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

said he “spent some time in Mademoiselle Chanel’s office and studied her Coromandel screen” to prepare for the film. “It made a huge impression on me. Somehow, it was like a very early ...

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 ...