‘Celadon’ is one of my favorite colors. I love to bring in a touch of celadon in a room. In a classic or in a contemporary styled interior, it always work!
‘Celadon’ is a term for ceramics denothing both a type of glaze and a ware of a specific color, also called celadon. This type of ware was invented in ancient China, primarly in Zhejiang Province.
Chinese Longquan Celadon from Zhejiang, Song Dynasty, 13th century (Musée Guimet in Paris) Source Wikipedia
One of the theories is that the term is a corruption of the name of Saladin (Sala ad-Din), the Ayyubid Sultan, who in 1171 sent forty pieces of the ceramic to Nur ad-Din Zengi, Sultan of Syria.
Celadon glaze refers to a family of transparant glazes, many with pronounced cracks in the glaze, produced in a wide variety of colors (including white, grey, blue and yellow), generally used on porcelain or stoneware clay bodies.
Celadon glazes have such popularity and impact that pieces made with it are often referred to as “celadons”.
Today I want you to show how to bring in the color of celadon in your home. There is a wide range of possibilities to do that!
Color of celadon
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You can display some celadon pottery in your cabinet.
source Alexandra Siebelink
Antique chinese pottery source Magazine MTC 2010-5
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A few pieces of celadon decoration will do. As these candle lights and this beautiful lamp.
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What do you think about hanging a celadon colored painting?
Artist Kay Kang source www.artgroove.com
Oh yes of course, you could wear celadon clothes too!
Celadon silk dress by Oleg Cassini (1962) for Jacky Kennedy.
Or you could write with a beautiful celadon pen!
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And if you want to give your furniture another look, paint them in celadon!
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Aren’t these pieces of furniture beautiful?!
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Or you could upholster your chairs or seats with a celadon fabric.
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You even can find beautiful celadon painted Swedish furniture.
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Swedish clock
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Swedish chair
I definitely have a weakness for celadon painted panelling ! This celadon color is so thankful to use in combination with painted or stained furniture.
The painted desk is just wonderful in front of the celadon painted panelling.
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Even this stained console table in combination with the celadon painted panelling is gorgeous.
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CELADON IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER COLORS
Combination 1 : celadon with shades of orange and brown
Wall paper with touches of celadon. source unknown
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Decoration accessories : celadon and orange
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Celadon in combination with chocolate brown.
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Celadon in combination with oak flooring!
Beautiful celadon fabric from Robert Allen
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Brown stained table surrounded by celadon.
Combination 2 : celadon in combination with shades of vilolet, purple or pink
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Love the celadon pottery here in combination with the purple color of this painting.
Combination 3 : celadon in combination with shades of green and shades of blue
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fabric Farnese celadon print Designers Guild
source Alexandra Siebelink
source Bella Notte linens
Combination 4 : celadon in combination with coral
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Celadon painted skirt in combination with corail wall paint.
So , did I succeed in convincing you to add some celadon accents in your interior, so far?
Not yet??!!
Well then , maybe these images on below will certainly do!
CELADON AT YOUR DINING ROOM !
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source Libeco
Belgian table linen Vence Collection Libeco
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CELADON AT YOUR LIVING ROOM !
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source Bella Notte linens
Beautiful linens for you draperies or as table and bed linen!
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CELADON AT YOUR KITCHEN !
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Celadon painted cabinets
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CELADON AT YOUR LIBRARY OR FAMILY ROOM !
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CELADON AT YOUR BEDROOM !
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Don’t you love those celadon draperies here?
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To choose your draperies, please visit the catalog of Restoration Hardware.
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Celadon bed linen.
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Celadon Paisley fabric for the drapery!
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Belgian bedlinen Vence collection Libeco
Instead of using celadon fabrics in your bedroom, you could go to bring in a work of art, painted in celadon colors.
As here!
source Alexandra Siebelink
source : me (Castle of Axel Vervoordt)
Wonderful celadon children’s bedlinen from Bella Notte linens!
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CELADON AT YOUR BATHROOM !
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Choose for celadon wall paper…
…or for celadon ceramic wall tiles.
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Celadon for your bathroom accessories.
Are you convinced now to choose for some celadon accents ??!! Please, let me know!
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By the way, I want you to meet Franca of the villa d’Esta blog, from who I used some images in this post!
Franca is a blogger and interior designer from The Netherlands and she loves to give her readers a lot of inspiration, achieving to have their home more cosier, more atmospheric and personal!
Please visit Franca at her beautiful villa d’Esta blog HERE.
I wish you all a wonderful rest of the week!
xx
Fabulous post! A nice change from beiges in the fall.....looks like it took a bit of time...appreciate the work it takes!
ReplyDeleteOk, now I have a new favourite colour! Thanks Greet, and I just finished my daily post and guess what, it's about Lars Bolander (you posted a pic of his today). He is sooo talented! I love his rooms!
ReplyDeleteThanks for such a lovely post!
One of my Most favorite colors and I try to have as much of it as possible in my home!
ReplyDeleteWonderful post !
I would have never guessed celadon worked so well with every color out there. I have to admit, it even brings other colors out more too. Wonderful post, thank you!
ReplyDeleteYou've convinced me that celadon is a beautiful and versatile colour :-) And you've taught me that celadon was first a form of pottery before it was a term used to describe the colour :-) I didn't know that!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your beautiful pictures and your love for celadon :-)
Kelly
Love the color and all the ideas you have shared!
ReplyDeleteGreet! You've out done yourself today! It's going to take me a week to go through and look at all the details in these photos. Just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteTjonge...wat een lange post...ik bleef scrollen hi hi! Maar de foto's zijn prachtig met mooie kleuren!
ReplyDeleteLieve groet, Ingrid
Greet, what a post! So inspiring and informative -it puts the rest of us to shame!
ReplyDeleteYes, you will find that color on some Swedish antiques. Actually green was trendy in Sweden for a while in the 18th century. And this specific soft mint green works so well with gray.
Hope all is well with you dear friend.
A warm hug, Mon
Absolutely one of my favorite posts ever! Filled to the brim with beautiful celadon eye candy. Thank you so much for sharing your love!
ReplyDeleteExcellent photos. So informative and interesting. I am passing along to others and bookmarking this post for future reference!
ReplyDeleteOne of the best posts ever on any blog!
Totally inspirational.
Oh Greet !
ReplyDeleteJ'aime aussi beaucoup le vert céladon !
Merci pour ce superbe post...
Très inspirant.
Céline.
This is a wonderful post Greet, you always do your research so thoroughly. For me there are few colours as ageless and as elegant as celadon. It's the colour of my living room curtains so I know how comfortable it is to live with.
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Sharon
Great post--a lot of work too!
ReplyDeleteIt is the most soothing color. I loved all your examples showing it's many uses!
ReplyDeleteIk denk dat ik de perfecte kleur gevonden heb voor mijn eetkamer! Dank je wel voor de prachtige foto's.
ReplyDeleteHello my friend,
ReplyDeleteI love celadon! I would love to have it in all of my rooms. I love the celadon painted furniture, so beautiful! Also the drapes, so very lovely! It is truly a lovely color, there is not doubt!
Hugs, Cindy
Hi Greet, I have been absent these 2 months because I am very busy with the restoration of my new house, now already it has ended, and already we live in the new house and I return to have time for me, and to follow MY FAVORITE BLOGS
ReplyDeleteGrret I have put some photos of my empty house in MY BLOG, hope that you say your opinion to me, it is very important for me ... I chose the gray color for my house ... as the precious Belgian houses .... an embrace Berta
Greet, I love celadon! My kitchen cabinets are a celadon green with an antique glaze. They look so warm. I just love them. This was a completely fabulous post. Your research was phenomenal. I think you need to have a very relaxing weekend after all this work. Your amazing!!
ReplyDeleteI loved this post from top to bottom and bottom to top again! Celadon is fresh and timeless and I cannot think of a color that does not look good with it. Great post.
ReplyDeleteSo many examples of celadon! I have one celadon bowl in my home from Simon Pearce and may have to add more of this color to my home. Thanks for sharing your inspiration.
ReplyDeleteDeborah
Greet what a wonderful feast of Celadon!
ReplyDeleteTo me it is synonymous with Australian Summer - a bleached out aqua that you will find in many places around the coast here. But it is also a strong reminder of oxidised metal, and I remember when the Swedish government finally decided to polish off the oxidation on the fantastic sculptural and ornamental works of the 'Royal Dramatic Theatre'.. Mamma mia, under the gorgeous layer of green was no less than gold..! What a discovery!! :)
Lovely post as usual my friend.
xx Charlotta
I just reworked my bedroom in celadon, cocoa brown and coral. Celadon is soothing, versatile and easily incorporated into many decor schemes.
ReplyDeleteLovely color -- there's something so calm about it, but with orange as you have shown, it becomes so lively. So much inspiration here -- thank you for sharing all of these... my mind is overflowing with ideas!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful collection of images! So inspiring. Thank you for sharing.
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Amy Meier
absolutely gorgeous. gorgeous!!!!! my mother has the most wonderful collection of celadon.
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