Delighted to Find {myself in} Selvedge Magazine!

"The Fabric of Your Life: Textiles in Fashion, Fine Art, Interiors, Travel and Shopping"... reads the Selvedge magazine byline. To be perfectly honest, I didn't even know about this gorgeous print magazine before Kate Cavendish contacted me for an article she was writing about Pascale Palun.

Now, I am so delighted with the writing, the hip graphics and photography, the depth and breadth of the coverage that I've subscribed to the online edition. Dancing just on the edge of "scholarly", this magazine is a rich resource for the history of all things textile, and delights the intellect while it captivates the eye.

Like most interior designers, I adore fabric. It's fascinating how Selvedge celebrates the close ties between fabric and women's lives, across time and many cultures. Selvedge captures that elemental connection and had me from the first page!

these servants's costumes in Russian Ballet, 1920's under the

artistic direction of Serge Diaghliev,

inspired the designer Paul Poirot, whose contributions

to 20th C. fashion have been likened to Picasso's

contributions to 20th c. art

backdrop for Russian Ballet in the 1920's

fragments from costumes from the heyday of Russian Ballet;

restoration has been made of these costumes,

some of which were designed

by Henri Matisse, who had a lifelong fascination with fabric

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this very happy interior designer-turned-fabric-and-

accessories-designer is profiled in Selvedge

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an innovative, to say the least, treatment of the

familiar Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman

beloved by virtually every interior designer I

have ever known, including myself!

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Selvedge reviews books such as this one published by

the Victoria and Albert Museum... and now

on my Christmas list!

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lovely graphics illustrating a story about

the Twelve Days of Christmas

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the cover of the current issue of Selvedge magazine,

published in Britain; you can see the quote by

me on page 45 included in Kate Cavendish's lovely

article about Pascal Palun

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Be absolutely certain that you enter the

Chic Provence Design Tour Giveaway

fora chance to win an

incredible silk filament filled duvet!

Fabulous Chic Provence Design Tour Silk Filled Duvet Giveaway!

{Enter Now to Win This Fabulous Silk Filled Duvet!}

A Chic Provence Design Tour Special Giveaway to my readers! I'm excited to tell you... Michele Chase has given me this incredible 86" x 86" silk-filled duvet as a giveaway for a Chic Provence readers' drawing! The duvet is similar to these shown and is exquisitely, luxuriously, weightlessly warm! Read more about silk filled duvets, their luxury and their health and environmental benefits too! I want one of these badly!

I'm doing this incredible giveaway as a promotion for our extremely popular Chic Provence Design Tour at Easter, 2011, in Provence.

Now, dear readers, I know this is a bit of work, but this giveaway is so worth it!

"All" you have to do to earn one chance in the drawing is:

• Follow Chic Provence, of course!
• "Like" Chic Provence here on Facebook!
• Follow Chic Provence on Twitter (button on sidebar)!
• Share on Facebook by clicking on the little icon after this post (easy!)
• Tweet by clicking the tweet icon after this post (very easy too!)
• Leave a comment here so I can place YOUR name in the drawing!

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A bigger commitment, and to earn three chances in the drawing, do all of the above plus:

• Write a blog post on the trip between now and December 20 (feel free to use my pictures or brochure!)
• Link back to my posting using the text “Chic Provence Design Tour” http://bit.ly/cPWQKq
• Place our Tour button on your blog by December 12 .. it's on top on my sidebar (I can give you other sizes)
• Label the button “Chic Provence Design Tour” and ink it back to my post: http://bit.ly/cPWQKq
• Keep the button up until January 31, 2011
• Notify me right away when you post: kit@kitgolson.com!

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I'll post a link on my blog to everyone who enters our Chic Provence Design Tour Giveaway just below my Tour button at the top of my sidebar.

The drawing will be on January 31, 2011. I'll send the very lucky winner this incredible silk duvet (retail value over $500) to sensually warm the winter months! Open worldwide.

Several dear friends... Andrea at The French Basketeer, Barb at French Elements, and Jeanne-Aelia at Through the French Eye of Design have already posted about the Chic Provence Design Tour, and to thank them will have their names entered four times in the drawing! Be sure to visit their gorgeous blogs!

I am so grateful to everyone for helping me spread the word about our exciting and unique opportunity to join us in l'Isle sur la Sorgue for one of the biggest antiques and brocante markets in all of France... with a designer*blogger as your guide and a luxurious villa as your home! Everyone deserves a little indulgence!

{Bonne Chance!}

Cassis {wallpaper & macaroons}

Can you see these stunning wallpapers gracing your rooms? With this much elegance, you won't need a lot. Consider papering one wall, or above a chair rail, or even buying one precious roll and placing it on the wall within a frame of beautiful molding. There are many ways to enjoy these luxurious papers. And don't even get me started on those fabrics at the bottom of the post! Enjoy this visual feast!

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All papers and fabrics from Fromental.

I know, the French Macaroon is the darling of the blogosphere...we've all seen a zillion recipes and pictures of French macaroons... but this photo is so gorgeous, and nicely bookends this post, which started out with gorgeous cassis-color wallpaper, so this courtesy of les petits plats de trinidad, a favorite new blog from Marseilles.

Indulge yourself and those you love!

Cassis Macaroons

Martha Stewart's recipe in English here