French Country Magazine...Rustic Trunk, And A Lantern

 Burlap Luxe Home

Awake

With 

Fall

 Salvage

Makes for a beautiful mix in a simple fall vignette.

 

Pottery

(BL) Burlap Luxe artist hand thrown pottery with the feeling of a French roadside find 

will feel rich and comfortable with authentic history in your hands and

home.

~Dore Callaway

Burlap Luxe etsy shop  

 Comforts Greyer Days

with rustic farmhouse charm.

 Forced Misshapen Rural Mud

 Objects Of Desire

over 59 years ago my grandparents purchased a country home that was

already 250 years old.

In this home was family heirlooms that my grandparents 

became the new caretakers. Old film plates date this

rural farmhouse trunk back 250 plus years.

Its original milk washed French bleu paint was amazing, yet had been

painted over with a black-green that left me no other choice than to

strip it back to its rawness and add new history in a washed and 

distressed white... A lime waxed technique.

This trunk chest adds a sense of simplicity of all things peasant and

rural to my French home without a gap in it fitting in.

Inherited 

Thank You Grandpa, 

it is resting where it belongs 

 

 Solid Forged Iron Handles

Original to the piece.

 Dore Callaway of Burlap Luxe

wants to thank 

Country French Magazine Fall/Winter 2016

For a special honor featuring my hand thrown (BL) pottery

by Burlap Luxe 

in this special edition feature on page 79

Marketplace

1. Burlap Luxe Dishes

 Found here...

Burlap Luxe etsy

 Cup/Bowls

Nothing in my home is not of use or rustic beauty, the making of 
 perfect harmony.

Natural clay mud, French farmhouse style pottery
cup/bowls. 

 

 Settings

for friends.

 

 Grapevine Clipping

 Wrapped delicately by my hands for a simple fall wreath.

 Idea To Inspire A

Lantern

 Seaside French Lantern

This vintage lantern made of hand forged iron trimmed in barley twisted iron 

was purchase from a beautiful seaside home yard sale in 
Malibu, California.

Washed in years of sea mist, aged in the beauty of white and galvanized grey.

A French lantern that needed to come with me and where would I hang it was not

my concern, I just knew I had to have it.

  It has moved about my home in a vignette or two and pushed aside in my 

home office space out of the way until now!

 

A Side Table Lantern Lamp

I wired the pendant length wire and chain with new wire, then 

attached a toggle switch for tuning it off and on.

Enough wire and a plug was added in length long enough to not

limit my moving it about and where outlets may be at my access.

Yes, it came to thought that I did not have to hang it quite yet, I could 

find some uniqueness in its use until a good fit is constructed.

 

 Perfectly aged with all the rightness of a patina to love.

Chippy whites layered on a patina of grey and

sea rust.

 

 

 Within this space it became interesting with light, and

it casts interesting reflections around the room.

  The Black-Eye Susan's

all dried up add to whats all natural in our

fall home.

Late In The Day

the light warms in the stillness.

Inspiring a lantern for a lamp. 

French, Prairie, Or Farmhouse, Its About Raw Texture

 Burlap Luxe Home Designs

My New Typography Sign Pottery

Artisan Created By Dore (Me) Burlap Luxe.

41" x 13" 1/2

All salvaged woods 100 plus years.

 Inspired to created this sign after spending time in the studio of clay.

Studio of art on the desert of Southern California.

"The Burning House"

Art Studio.

 I love when pieces call out to me to create. This hinge is original to the antique window

that became part of the letter "T" I love the salvage it adds.

 I use salvage pieces that call out to be used.

Old table tops for the base covered with vintage and weathered barn woods washed in

tree bark beige's and French greys.

Embracing the imperfection.

 

 I add fragments of vintage to complete the letters, adding all the right kind of rightness.

 Pottery, earth and fire glazed in touchable beauty.

Everyday objects bring a natural style to living in harmony with ideas that inspire.

I have been creating the essence of beautifully well lived pottery as the French say,

"Perfect Imperfection" seem to capture the essence of the French approach to

creating with the underscore of confidence in French, never throwing out

a piece of use.

Mixing my artful pottery with the old of pieces collected and gathered.

 Ironstone Pottery

 Nothing is served in anything that distract from the colour of food.

Countless chefs and food experts refuse to serve food on anything other than the plainest white.

 

 Porcelain and faience (stoneware and earthenware) 

glazed in every shade of white to creams.

 Uneven, raw texture and the absence of smooth edges add to the reason I am creating

in clays giving reason and the impression that these pieces have been unearthed

from an old French country chateau, known as roadside pottery.

 Simple imperfections of art clay speak to me!

The charm in creating imperfect pieces become very perfect for me.

Adding rustic French to my rural kitchen.

 Rows of pottery useful, beautiful, loved and used.

 Setting the table unpretentious, restrained elegance with French pottery as

the backdrop.

Soon you will find hand thrown pottery in my etsy.

My home cabinets will be filled.

 Rustic pieces nudge me to create in reclaimed beauty, adding a 

backdrop to how I create art for all reasons.

 I purposefully age, damage and abuse my pieces to achieve the love of

all things French. Using salvaged pieces tug at my French soul, rooting

myself in living with age.

 All my pieces had a different life before they reached my hands, where then I

took each piece and finished them in clay like patinas not allowing one

piece over the other, to compete with each other.

"Nothing is interesting unless it becomes personal."

 In Plain View

Washed and given a weathered worn finish as if acquired over years inspire,

plain and simple as that.

 

 Home is where the art is.

Good and pure art heals the home...The most important and theatrical place

to entertain my pottery is the French kitchen where guests and family

enjoy something good on my pottery.

All my home pieces painted by me, adding a calculated austerity and

feeling of timelessness.

 

The POTTERY sign will be hung over a bank of cabinets.

Pottery signs will be added to my etsy in time, along with

uneven pottery.

Working on custom orders.

Soulfully Worn With Love

All Photos Taken by Dore Callaway Burlap Luxe

Inspiring my visit to Renee's Santa Barbara home where the wedding shoot for Fifi O'Neill's wedding style book took place. Renee's home is filled with unexpected charm, here an aged mirror is a focal point to the flanked wall of vintage French books and a well loved leather chair of comfort sits an ear length away to the grand piano. Renee's piano does not have to be played to hear the music this room is filled with.

Created by, Dore Callaway (Me)  Burlap Luxe

Love Typography letters of old vintage salvage.

Rustic Prairie style.

Layers of antique woods, letters of old canvas frame work, windows and jelly cupboards, French spindles and French chair legs mounted on 100 year old planked table top.

38" x 13"

Can be found in my etsy with detail.

www.etsy.com/shop/BurlapLuxe

Soulfully worn and passionately lived adding a sense of peace and wellness living life with honest pieces; rustic simplicity.

Perfect piece for a Romantic Prairie Style Wedding; country salvage home brocante flea market style.

Often forgotten pieces will show up to my home where I will weave their beauty into my French flea market inspired style; soulfully worn with love.

Inspiring LOVE in all things worn with love.