Decorating Guides

Identifying Old Lanternier Limoges China Patterns

Businesses from all over the world started setting up shop in Limoges, France to have simple accessibility to kaolin, a porcelain ingredient previously only found in China, however, discovered in neighboring Saint-Yrieix in the late 18th century. Frederic Lanternier and family members started producing Limoges china under the family name. Son Alfred later joined the …

'20s Bath Layout

The Roaring ’20s marked an era of profound societal and political contrasts alongside upheaval and innovation, which included women winning the right to vote, prohibition and innovations — the fridge, traffic lights and radio channel broadcasts — which revolutionized life. The bathroom designs of this decade proved equally as diverse, with a mixture of rainbow-colored …