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The furniture and decor brand, dreamed up by founder Louise Roe, celebrates the gardens and cherished heirlooms of the English countryside with handmade wicker, antique homewares, chintz, and ditsy floral fabrics.
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Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
Floral and botanical patterns are a recurring theme, from the chintz sofas to the colorful hollyhock wallpaper that greets visitors at a private elevator entrance.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
The British already had experience mass-producing cotton calico with prints such as chintz, and Dutch potters in Delft had long mastered the art of copying Chinese blue-and-white ceramics.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025
No one sitting anywhere in the colossal common room, with its gleaming pine floors and Persian rugs, there was no one around the open fire, no one in the table game area or the tea nook, no one seated anywhere, despite a number of plump, chintz possibilities.
—Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
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Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2025
Floral and botanical patterns are a recurring theme, from the chintz sofas to the colorful hollyhock wallpaper that greets visitors at a private elevator entrance.
—Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
The British already had experience mass-producing cotton calico with prints such as chintz, and Dutch potters in Delft had long mastered the art of copying Chinese blue-and-white ceramics.
—H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025
No one sitting anywhere in the colossal common room, with its gleaming pine floors and Persian rugs, there was no one around the open fire, no one in the table game area or the tea nook, no one seated anywhere, despite a number of plump, chintz possibilities.
—Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
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“Chintz.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chintz. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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chintz
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: a shiny cotton fabric with a flowery pattern printed on it
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