A Pretty French desk!

Before I get to the latest french furniture acquisition, I want to 

give you a heads up on a terrific holiday tour, Style and Set, that I am in

along with a host of other design bloggers all this week.

My table will be shared on Thursday, and each day there are five 

or so tables being featured by the talented bloggers.

So if you are looking for ideas, or just love beautiful interiors and

tablescapes, don't miss this one! Link at end of post.

 Now to my exciting find....

It started off when I met a fellow blogger from North Carolina,

Shirley from Housepitality Designs.  Shirley and I have been blogging friends

for five years now, and she was in town with her hubby on a conference so we

met for a day of brunch and antique shopping! No perfect camera shots here,

just off the cuff shots taken by my hubs and myself. 

By the way, on her New England trip,

she happened to stay at the Charlotte Inn on Martha's Vineyard,

the prettiest and most elegant Inn in New England! 

( A personal fave!)

Check out her blog post about the Inn at the end of this post.

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"Shirley, lets go antique shopping!" 

And into the fab Sowa Vintage Market we went.

 The first vendor had racks of great old coats 

and we went through them one by one while we chatted.

I am still thinking about that fun faux leopard coat that I didn't try on.  

I don't usually look at the clothes, 

but there were so many good vintage clothing vendors at Sowa.  

 At almost the last stall, I spotted this French Provincial writing desk

 with rush chair.  It was covered in large (ugly) statuary.

 I pointed it out to Shirley, and she started inspecting it.

The drawers were all lined in decorative paper and were tongue and groove and solid wood.

 Ok, lets get these things off the desk top to take a better look.  

The writing surface extends so that it is comfortable to sit and write. 

 The seat was solid and in great shape. 

 Pretty carvings on the front of the chair were just another reason to love it even more. 

And how about the wire cabinets and the tiny drawers in the desk caddy?

Where oh where could I find a place to put this in my house?

I walked away....but then I walked back.  We measured the desk.

I knew I could find a spot.  We left without it, me clutching a card with the 

measurements.  Shirley's husband found a vintage architectural desk lamp.

We had a ton of fun shopping and blabbing and connecting in real life 

from our respective blog world vantage points.  Its not often I meet my

blog friends in real life, but when I do, its like I have known them a long time!

Oh. And so I went home....

and measured.....

and called the vendor up.....

He is delivering the desk to me this week!!!

And then I will show you all where I will put it.

Even though I am not really sure yet.

(My mottto: Buy what you love when you see it!!)

Here is the fab holiday entertaining tour I am involved with this week,

starting with the oh so pretty table of organizer, Lory, of Designthusiasm.

Link up to check out the first few blogs, and I will be back on Thursday

with my home, right here!! 

Read about Shirley's stay at The Charlotte Inn here