Decorative red placemat with floral and landscape design on a wooden surface

Tear Away Vintage Toile Paper Party Placemat

$34.00
$34.00
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Decorative red placemat with floral and landscape design on a wooden surface
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  • Decorative red placemat with floral and landscape design on a wooden surface
  • Decorative red placemat with floral and landscape design on a wooden surface
  • Decorative red placemat with floral and landscape design on a wooden surface
  • Decorative red placemat with floral and landscape design on a wooden surface
Tear Away Vintage Toile Paper Party Placemat

Tear Away Vintage Toile Paper Party Placemat

$34.00
$34.00
Description

Toile de Jouy — the finely engraved pastoral scenes printed in a single color on a plain ground, produced at the workshops of Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf in the village of Jouy-en-Josas from the 1760s onward — is one of the great inventions of French domestic design. Its characters: the shepherdess, the harvester, the lovers under a tree, the distant house on a hill — have been reproduced on wallpaper, on upholstery, on bedlinen and tableware for two and a half centuries without exhausting their capacity to make a room feel settled and considered. The Vintage Toile placemat brings that visual tradition to the table in a design drawn from the same pastoral vocabulary.

Single-color pastoral toile on a plain ground. A tear-away pad of 25 sheets. Dimensions 12″ × 18″. For the table that wants the permanence of a great decorative tradition in a format designed to be used without ceremony.
A Note from Jeff

Toile de Jouy has been making French rooms feel settled and considered for two and a half centuries, and the reason is not nostalgia but design intelligence: the single-color engraved pastoral on a plain ground is a format that works at any scale, in any context, without requiring any other object in the room to make concessions to it.

On a placemat, the same quality holds: the toile grounds the setting without competing with it.