The Chateau Diaries #284 PhiPhi, the boy who prepares peas & peaches, now prances like Potty

[graciemckitten]

It was the witchcraft business. Pavlina's increasing weirdness was going to conflict with Fanny's planned rollout of the Holy Stars con. She was given her marching orders.

I guess creepy hair collecting Sabine was also given the boot. Śabine creeped out Pavlina.

 

[Imperious Me]

Tattlers, the Braquenié curtains were purchased on July 7, 2022 from . . .

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De Baecque in Lyon for . . .

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€ 2,783

The estimate was € 400-600. The hammer price was € 2,200. Then add the buyer's premium of 26.5% (25% + 1.5% for using the Drouot online bidding platform) or € 583.

Lot 122's description:

Suite of five pairs of curtains and four pairs of tiebacks in printed canvas, Braquenié manufacture, printing on cotton canvas with the wood board; dense decoration with the flowers of the tree Indies. Lined, (slightly insolated on the edges, classic cleaning to be planned), 310 x 110 cm approximately, width of the bottom 145 cm on average.


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Suite of five pairs of curtains and four... - Lot 122 - De Baecque et Associés

Toutes les informations sur le lot Suite of five pairs of curtains and four... - Lot 122 - De Baecque et Associés

www.debaecque.fr

And they've been stored since then... and shipped! $$$$

 

[T Rex]

I guess creepy hair collecting Sabine was also given the boot. Śabine creeped out Pavlina.

I suspect Sabine creeped out a lot of people! She was certainly an odd duck!

 

[graciemckitten]

And they've been stored since then... and shipped! $$$$

Now they will be hung, unwashed, on the damp Dump walls.

 

[On Repeat]

Fanny has a new obsession… very expensive designer fabric. This one with a connection to royalty….like 50% discount Ratso. All for a crumbling farmhouse in rural France.

“La Maison Braquenié - Founded at the beginning of the 19th century, a period during which France had established itself in the domain of the decorative arts, Braquenié was able to create a universe of matching rugs and fabrics for the most prestigious décors. In 1821, Pierre-Antoine Demy and his wife took over the family business and set up in rue Vivienne in Paris where they assembled the most beautiful collections of rugs and tapestries in the capital. The business was successful from the start and in 1830, was named by King Louis-Philippe as "silk fabric merchant to the King". Ten years later, it acquired the "atelier de Paris" in Aubusson and then implemented a policy of creating exclusive models which was to make it famous.

In the middle of the 19th century, the house, now in partnership with Alexandre Braquenié, offered everything flourishing society could want: the Empress Eugénie and Napoléon III, Duc Pozzo di Borgo, the Marquess de la Païva and the Rothschild family all became loyal clients. Official orders flooded in: a rug was woven for the Palais du Luxembourg, another for Notre Dame de Paris and for the Vatican. Its reputation extended beyond the borders of France, with the courts of Spain, Italy and Russia and Sultan Said, the pasha of Egypt, ordering their décors from Braquenié. Prestigious orders continued to be the mainstay of the business during the 19th century, for example those completed for the liner "Normandie" and replicas of historic décors, notably for the Grand Trianon.
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Watch for more bargain “ curtains” to show up at the Dump.

The Braqueni Collection at Sotheby's Paris

b PARIS, FRANCE.- /b At the Galerie Charpentier, Sotheby's will offer a number of tapestries, gouache and watercolour plans, sketches of tapestries,

artdaily.cc

The shopping addicts have branched out from high priced luxury wallpaper, to now include high, priced curtains made from expensive luxury fabrics. The gruesome twosome keep spending more and more on auction purchases based upon items they see or read about in auction catalogs or website at Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and other online auctions. Recall Fanny sneaking Fortuny pillows and lampshades in to the Dump.

They have also started compiling their shopping list from items that they’ve seen at Versailles and other castles, chateaux, and luxury, hotels, or museums that they have visited in there, nonstop traveling. For example, I believe I recall in the visit to the Versailles apartment of the mistress of the king, that Stephanie mentioned a porcelain bowl that was used to chill wine glasses. What did snorts come up with at Christmas at the dump? He found a similar porcelain bowl from the 1700s or early 1800s that was designed to chill wine glasses. He showed it off to Amaury in the dump kitchen.

All they do is shop for for crap and high end luxury items and antiques online and in person.

Stephanie Jarvis has an out-of-control shopping addiction and massive hoarding issues. I believe she and snorts spend all day long shopping online, reading auction catalogs, looking at tours of castles, museums, fabrics, wall, coverings, etc. and race to locate and buy luxury antique items and goods associated with royalty, Versailles, very wealthy people, etc. for the unimportant, unheated, damp, mice infested, filthy, crumbling, unstable, rotting, mildewed farmhouse in rural France.

As cd viewers have noted, Stephanie wants to turn the chapel into a Vegas style, Marie Antoinette, blinged out party pad. They are buying inappropriate gold sconces for the chapel. They want a blinged out chandelier.
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I think her father lives in France and her sister lives in Switzerland?

After seeing those very expensive secondhand curtains here, I have been down a rabbit hole looking for fabric for my own curtains.

I watched Homeworthy last night and an upwardly mobile decorator (who never cooks and gets her kitchen soiled!) used an Indian handblocked
tablecloth border for a trim on a chair. If it is good enough for a social climbing, botoxed decorator to use, then Stephanie Jarvis could be using her sewing machine to knock up her own bloody handblocked curtains. An Indian handblocked tablecloth here is about A28-$35.

Those curtains she bought were secondhand, ridiculously expensive and she bought them just for the maker's name.

It seems to me that people with excess money and no budget, lose their creativity and just buy designer stuff without any attachment or sentimentality, and without any brain cells used to create something unique. Enter Stephanie Jarvis.

 

[graciemckitten]

Fanny was the one who touted (to increase viewership) she was hosting a Ukrainian "refugee". I'll "Pav-fend", as Pavlina stated multiple times she was NOT a refugee (she was already scheduled to be a volunteer at the Shitoo, and was traveling when war broke out in Ukraine.) Pavlina, while not a refugee, IS a displaced person who can not go back "home" for obvious reasons.

Fanny, without consulting Pavlina, set up a luncheon, and invited a refugee Ukrainian family over, as Fanny saw an opportunity to make herself look like Saint Fanny. It really seemed awkward, and neither the family nor Pavlina looked too thrilled at being thrown together and filmed for views.

Whilst serving her sentence staying at the Shitoo, Pavlina worked her behind off (but it was not always shown on the Fanny vlogs.) She was the one who kept the gardens up (remember, Kirsty is only part-time, as is Omberline- and they were doing most of the planting, as the gardens are massive), fed the animals, did the washing up, helped Maria in the kitchen, cooked meals, harvested the produce and herbs, made much better floral arrangements than FRK, dried herbs/flowers to make teas, cleaned guest rooms and did some painting (she touch-up painted areas that needed it and painted the ornate metal balconies.) Pavlina could have used her displaced status to start a GoFundMe (lord knows Fanny's gangsta grannies would have been all over that making it rain), but did not.

But, I agree with you @Pekey - something seems off. I think MariA was chomping at the bit the get the hades out of dodge, and out of no where, Pavlina was throwing up deuces. I wonder what triggered the showdown in the OK corral her sudden departure ("Dear Leader Snorts", perhaps?) At the end of the day, to me, Pavlina is one of the more likeable characters of the Shitooverse. Good on her for escaping and traveling instead!

I felt bad for Pavlina because Fanny forced her into the refugee storyline that she and Snorts concocted, and Pavlina got put in a no win situation. Make Fanny retract her statements and likely get kicked out of the Dump or silently go along with the “ storyline“ hoping Fanny would forget about it after a few weeks.
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After seeing those very expensive secondhand curtains here, I have been down a rabbit hole looking for fabric for my own curtains.

I watched Homeworthy last night and an upwardly mobile decorator (who never cooks and gets her kitchen soiled!) used an Indian handblocked
tablecloth border for a trim on a chair. If it is good enough for a social climbing, botoxed decorator to use, then Stephanie Jarvis could be using her sewing machine to knock up her own bloody handblocked curtains. An Indian handblocked tablecloth here is about A28-$35.

Those curtains she bought were secondhand, ridiculously expensive and she bought them just for the maker's name.

It seems to me that people with excess money and no budget, lose their creativity and just buy designer stuff without any attachment or sentimentality, and without any brain cells used to create something unique. Enter Stephanie Jarvis.

Stephanie Jarvis is a new money ( thru grifted funds), spendthrift, label bleep. She will buy anything attached to luxury, a prominent name, royalty, castles, designers, high end provenance, celebrity connection, etc. regardless of its actual beauty, usefulness, quality, or value.

 

[Imperious Me]

I suspect Sabine creeped out a lot of people! She was certainly an odd duck!

Danger Dan had a go though...

 

[graciemckitten]

There was something "off" but I cannot put my finger on it.
Still...... like you said - she worked (unlike Snorts) and I felt she did not like being on the pink phone !!! Alot !!!
If she is smart - Pav will never return.

I don’t think she would return to the Dump without Maria present and her friend she played dress up with in the woods, Jared, moved to Florida.

 

[Lady Avonlea]

Good catch. I was calculating her cost around $2600 based on them saying at $350 per yard they got five pairs for the cost of one. It’s still 3K spent on something she didn’t even need and may not use. Looks like she really got out of control last year.

The potential rooms (ex: GS, Library, Bedrooms) Fanny has mentioned for those drapes won't be ready for years (if ever). In the meantime Fanny will haul them up to the attic, hang them over the bannister and forget where she put them. Take a good look now because we're unlikely to ever see them again.
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I guess creepy hair collecting Sabine was also given the boot. Śabine creeped out Pavlina.

I do wonder if they ladies (Maria, Pavlina and Sabine) "purposely" got a bit 'weird' with their various weird performances. They decided to have a bit of fun on their way out the door. Freak out Fanny a bit, screw with her pink camera footage and help expedite their desired departures.

 

[OhIDontKnow...]

I guess creepy hair collecting Sabine was also given the boot. Śabine creeped out Pavlina.

I always thought that Sabine, Pavlina, and Maria were way off brand and am surprised they were kept around as long as they were. But let’s not forget, Fanny can’t have anyone pretty or stylish around because she wants no competition for attention.
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The potential rooms (ex: GS, Library, Bedrooms) Fanny has mentioned for those drapes won't be ready for years (if ever). In the meantime Fanny will haul them up to the attic, hang them over the bannister and forget where she put them. Take a good look now because we're unlikely to ever see them again.
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I do wonder if they ladies (Maria, Pavlina and Sabine) "purposely" got a bit 'weird' with their various weird performances. They decided to have a bit of fun on their way out the door. Freak out Fanny a bit, screw with her pink camera footage and help expedite their desired departures.

Yeah like that $10K roll of antique pink Fortuny fabric she bought from a sympathetic decorator. Wonder where that tit is? Wonder what that decorator, who gave her a pity discount, thinks of her now?

 

[LittleMore Cottage]

I said a year ago they would be trawling the auction houses for vintage drapery before long and what do we see?!? If the sellers followed through on that planned “classic cleaning”, whatever the feck that is, it will be the last time until they rot off their rods. Next Fanny and Prince Ponce-a-lot will be scouring Chairish for the vintage Fortuny drapes there! What a pair, the tosser and the tosspot!

Why did Fanny say "of course they needto be cleaned?"

 

[Tartuffe]

Why did Fanny say "of course they need to be cleaned?"

It was an odd thing to say, especially because Fanny never cleans her own curtains. Perhaps they smell? This is one of the risks of buying at auction online without seeing and sniffing lots for oneself.

 

[M&MsMom]

It was an odd thing to say, especially because Fanny never cleans her own curtains. Perhaps they smell? This is one of the risks of buying at auction online without seeing and sniffing lots for oneself.

Or, perhaps she or one of her minions read here, where several of us called her out for not cleaning the draperies she took down and said she was going to re-do them so they'd fit somewhere else but would store them until then. She appeared to do the "storing" without having them cleaned first.

** And by "store", I mean she threw them in a heap in the attic somewhere.

 

[Pekey]

Stephanie Jarvis is a new money ( thru grifted funds), spendthrift, label bleep. She will buy anything attached to luxury, a prominent name, royalty, castles, designers, high end provenance, celebrity connection, etc. regardless of its actual beauty, usefulness, quality, or value.

Fanny has reached the level of Euro Trash.

 

[graciemckitten]

Shopping addicts getting inspiration from Versailles mistress apartment:
Look at 5:56. Stephanie showcases mini porcelain cooler for wine glass at Versailles.




Click and look at Snorts showing his Sevres wine glass cooler with pattern from Louis 15th pink collection at Fountainbleu.


Click and see Snorts show his 9 copies of plates with the Louis 15th Sevres Fountainbleu collection Pink pattern. reproductions?





See where the gruesome twosome get their Shopping ideas?

Pink Louis 15th plates auctioned at Christie’s

TWO SEVRES PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE SERVICE MADE FOR LOUIS XV AT THE CHATEAU DE FONTAINEBLEAU ('ASSIETTES UNIES')INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER R FOR 1770, ONE PLATE WITH A PAINTER'S MARK FOR SIOUX L'AINE, THE OTHER WITH THE PAINTER'S MARK FOR LEVE, ONE INCISED L, THE OTHER INCISED X

Price realised USD $ 37,500 for 2 plates
2012

https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-two-sevres-porcelain-plates-from-the-service-5609215/

Sevres wine glass cooler est. $ 5,000 to 7,000

(#238) A SÈVRES WINE GLASS COOLER CIRCA 1775

www.sothebys.com

https://www.christies.com/en/stories/sevres-porcelain-collecting-guide-778aff05a46048f99b98671a3a35f1dc

A Royal Sèvres Plate made for Louis XV, 1770 - Adrian Sassoon

www.adriansassoon.com

Obsession with Versailles and Sevres porcelain

Sevres Porcelain: Everything You Need to Know

Intrigue, espionage, war, revolution, royalty, and some of the greatest works of decorative art ever made: the incredible history of the Sevres porcelain factory.

www.mayfairgallery.com

Sèvres: The History of Porcelain Fit for a King - WorthPoint

What is it? What's it Worth? Find out at WorthPoint, the comprehensive antiques, art, and vintage collectibles research site. Home of the biggest pricing database plus marks, patterns, expert advice, and more.

www.worthpoint.com

 

[Rory]

I think the curtains will end up in her bedroom appt (whilst grand salon and library are unrenovated) as they are “too beautiful not to display and easier to store if hung”.

 

[OhIDontKnow...]

So I guess the videos this week are them the week before they go to Austria, which is actually occurring right now, so last week?

 

[JackSpratt]

Last nights or whenever it was posted vlog.

Had to FF through the daily harassing of the restorers.

bleeping curtains, another assault on the eyes!! Bought in 2022 and she seems to not really know what she's actually got, no surprise I suppose. They don't go with the panelling at all. Oh and the Idiot child has a new phrase 'the colour pops', been watching too many makeup tutorials.

He says cheers Angel at the end.

Told Mr Spratt last night that Aumary is still putting that boiler room together, he laughed. He said something like that should take two weeks to do tops (if you're working a full day on the job) how long has he been doing this now? He also said the new regulations for enclosing commercial boilers came into force at least 3 years ago (the last commercial boiler he fitted was in 2019 and the regs changed sometime after that), so in my thinking Nathan would have told them all of this at the start. Delay tactics yet again by Fanny to avoid switching the heat on? It's disgusting when you think it was supposed to be up and running in April.

 

[C'est moi]

Except I screwed it up. Should be Marielina. That's what I get for trying to be too cute.

It worked
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Hi all.
Sorry I've not been around. My husband has been ill. I'll be back when I'm back. Hugs to you all.

Been missing you. Hope you are well and your husband is on the mend.
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From all the famous women, she picks the one which was beheaded as roll-model?

They be-headed Barbie? That's terrible.

 

[Pekey]

bleeping curtains, another assault on the eyes!!

When will she be Over the curtains!!!
What happened to that sewing machine...... I wonder if she will start embroidering the darn curtains instead of those napkins !

With only the two of them in the Falling Down Castle ---- she is slowly running out of ideas.