Jackie Von Tobel’s fabric line, including these darling pillows. The dog is NOT for sale!!!
This week we have ANOTHER give away at the Skirted Roundtable HERE! Our guest is Jackie Von Tobel, artist, interior and fabric designer, and author. Jackie is also a blogger – which is where the four of us met. All of us started our blogs at about the same time, except for Linda who started HER blog ages and ages ago, Linda is the grandmother of design bloggers. For the past three years, Jackie has been very busy writing two huge reference books on window treatments and bedding HERE. She was gracious enough to offer her two books for the giveaway. The contest ends tomorrow night, so if you haven’t already entered, be sure to go to the Skirted Roundtable HERE and read the instructions.
I love these pictures of Jackie’s home studio, where she writes, draws the illustrations for her books, and creates her fabric line. What a neat and organized artist!
While you are entering the contest, be sure to listen to the interview. Jackie is a fascinating woman, full of a joie de vie that most of us only dream about!!! She is highly inspiring and I think you will be very motivated after listening to all she has accomplished in her life. She’s an incredible person and the three of us were left a little exhausted after talking with her!!!
My favorite fabric from Jackie’s line is this one – Birds and Braches in Coffee. Jackie CLAIMS she designed this fabric with me in mind!! Sure, Jackie!!!!
Tomorrow is the last day to enter the giveaway – so hurry!!! Go HERE to listen to the interview and leave your contest comments there. Please do NOT leave your contest entry comments on this blog, Cote de Texas! All entries MUST be left on the Skirted Roundtable blog or you won’t be eligible!!!!
Jackie asked that I add this information about her collaboration with Minutes Matter:
If you heard my recent interview on The Skirted Roundtable or read some of my posts about design software you may be interested in learning more about how my designs are used in STUDIO graphic design software. My friend Merlin (yes, that is her real name) who is the official wizard over at Minutes Matter and I would like to cordially invited you to attend a FREE, 30 minute webinar sponsored by Minutes Matter Solutions on Thursday, March 4 at 1 PM Eastern. You’ll see Merlin use Studio, our graphic design program, to translate the fabulous draperies and valances from my book, The Design Directory of Window Treatments into elevation renderings filled with fabrics, colors, and textures. These complete designs can also be broken apart quickly and mixed and matched for an infinite variety of styles. Never be stumped again how to treat your client’s windows – watch how easy it is to drag and drop these beautifully illustrated images to create drawings that your clients will want show their friends. To register for this free event on March 4 at 1 PM EST , please click here:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/240892040
for more information, please visit the Minute Matter website:
And finally, next week we have design photographer Michael J. Lee who is full of tips on how to get that perfect photograph of your house!
Kay O’Toole’s house as seen in the March Veranda, pictures by Tria Giovan. What roses!!! I just adore the soft lavender color of the chair fabric. Notice how thick the walls are, easy to see this where the windows are placed.
The enfilade view from the bedroom past the entry hall into the living room. Notice the gorgeous doors! The front of the house is on the left. 
A collection of antique oil paintings hang over a settee. The chinoiserie tea table is so beautiful!
Here, in this Swedish house, the enfilade is short, just three rooms deep. So pretty!
Another Swedish enfilade.
The window at the end of this long enfilade is especially pretty. 
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Traditional enfilades are not always fancy or large. The New Orleans “shotgun house” is such an example. Here, in the French Quarter, is a rare but charming shotgun house, so called because a bullet would travel from the front door out to the back.
An earlier picture of La Lanterne. The house is used as a country vacation spot by French President Sarkozy. He spent his honeymoon there with Carla Bruni. The romance of a Lanterne design is the ability to approach the house, look into it and out past it, onto the back yard. Imagine at a dinner party, arriving at the house and seeing through it, straight to the back all decorated with candle lit tables.
The gates to La Lanterne are topped by large deer heads. 
A rare floor plan of La Lanterne shows the courtyard its the two wings surround. Here you can see the center part of the building with the windows that line up, making the building see through. 
The layout of La Lanterne. The famous blogger Aesthete’s Lament commented HERE that this view shows the “dreary landscaping, vulgarly sized tennis court, motel-blue pool.” It does seem a shame that the grounds are not prettier. 
Here is a larger satellite picture of La Lanterne in Versailles. You can see how close it is to the palace and the Petite and Gran Trianons. 
Security is very tight at La Lanterne now. There is now a metal gate between the deer head posts. Another fence encircles the outer perimeter of the property. 
The tennis court does seem horribly oversized – couldn’t it be moved to a more discrete part of the estate? The pool, though, is not as offensive in this picture. 
The Adler Ely house showing the opposite side of the house as above.
In 1929, Horace Trumbauer designed another La Lanterne inspired house on Long Island for James B. Clews. In 1952 the “Lanterne” center part of the house was demolished leaving the two wings to be converted into separate houses. This facade is a faithful adaption of the original design – there are three windows on each side of the front door, exactly like the Pavillion de la Lanterne in Versailles.
