For classicists, maximalists, and general lovers of home decor and interior design, it’s impossible to resist the charms of toile de Jouy. With its bucolic scenes and eye-catching contrast, the ...

You probably know the Toile de Jouy pattern by sight, if not by name. The red-and-white or blue-and-white design features ink-like vignettes of trees, farmers gleaning, hot air balloons, horse-drawn ...

When Christian Dior opened his first store on 30 Avenue Montaigne in 1947, his close friend Christian Bérard advised him to decorate the small boudoir-boutique almost entirely in toile de Jouy fabric.

For centuries, Toile de Jouy has conjured a sense of luxury and refinement. Characterized by repeated motifs and illustrative pastoral scenes, the pattern often mirrored major events of the time. To ...

How exactly did a thick cotton fabric festooned with frolicking shepherdsses, bales of hay, and general pastoral merriment become one of today’s biggest design fixations? We’re talking about toile de ...

The French term "toile de jouy" translates as the "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas," a chintz-producing town in the south-west suburbs of Paris, and it refers to a specific style of textile that was used for ...

The popularity of Toile de Jouy has endured for more than 250 years. Literally it means cloth from the town of Jouy near Versailles in France where it originated, but it has come to mean a ...

Paris does love a hero. Take the German-born industrialist Christophe-Philippe Oberkampf, who is honoured with both a street and a Métro station in the 11th arrondissement. The creator of toile de ...

A new generation has embraced a heritage print - all thanks to the catwalks, writes Kirstie McDermott Cole & Son’s classic Villandry Toile de Jouy wallpaper comes in red, charcoal, cobalt blue and ...