Pillow with a classical painting of a woman's portrait on a white background

Madame Revolutionary Decorative Pillow

Square 12" / Soft Velvet / Polyester Fiber
$105.45
Sale price  $105.45 Regular price 
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La Révolution · Portrait · Designer Cushion

Madame Revolutionary Decorative Pillow

$105.45
Sale price  $105.45 Regular price 
Description

There is a particular discipline to the well-dressed room: the understanding that comfort and beauty are not opposing forces, that a considered textile on a sofa or reading chair communicates as clearly as any painting on the wall. The Madame Revolutionary cushion cover brings French Revolutionary portraiture into a domestic format — a young Frenchwoman of the 1790s, painted in the direct, composed manner of the period, printed across a heavyweight designer textile.

The Revolutionary decade produced an enormous quantity of portraiture at every level of French society. The collapse of court patronage and the urgent need of the new bourgeois class to document itself created a market for portraits that painters of every ability supplied. This face — the white muslin bonnet, the dark dress, the plain white fichu — is the visual record of a generation that dressed deliberately to show which side they were on. On a sofa or reading chair, it occupies the room with the same quiet authority it was painted to project.

Built from a heavyweight designer textile. Four fabric options at checkout. Six sizes from 12″×12″ to 24″×24″. Cushion pad sold separately.

Specification & Care

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Specifications

Construction: Heavyweight Designer Textile

Fabric Options: Four Curated Designer Fabrics, Select at Checkout

Closure: Full-Length Zip, Easy Cushion Insertion and Removal

Available Sizes: 12″×12″ · 16″×16″ · 20″×14″ · 20″×20″ · 22″×16″ · 24″×24″

Includes: Cushion Cover Only. Cushion Pad Sold Separately.

Care: Machine wash gently at 86°F (30°C). Tumble dry low. Iron on low heat. Remove pad before washing.

A Note from Jeff

The French have always understood that the rooms where you actually live deserve the same visual attention as the rest of the house. A portrait on a cushion is not an eccentric choice in that context. It is a considered one, in the tradition of the French domestic interior that has always treated the objects of daily life as objects worth thinking about.

This woman lived through one of the most consequential decades in European history and came out the other side looking exactly like herself. I find that worth commemorating.

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