Nobody knows which room I mean?

Pal, I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to see! I do remember somewhere in the back of my mind, a description like what you said, but no photo...

Beth P.

I've been searching the net, but am striking out. This room sounds so intriguing.

Not having much luck myself!

I hope Magnaverde is more successful.

Jim

I believe I just saw this room (online) somewhere recently! The "silver removed" is what I remember. Let me think about it.

Not a Mongiardino or Duquette ploy? Sounds so theatrical.

Okay, this question is now officially driving me nuts. Want to check here?

I'll keep looking.

Here is a link that might be useful: Met research

ITs older than Duquette, It may even be so old that its 19th c. I don't know :(

I do remember a stunning dining room by Charlotte Moss with gorgeous chinoiserie wallpaper AND the lower part of the wall was mirrored and then covered with a Regency-style fretwork ...

But I do hope someone can remember!

What a fascinating Decorating mystery! :)

I want to know how to pronounce chinoiserie! I always stumble over it.
I too would love to see the photo.

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more or less

Sorry I didn't see this till just now, Palimpsest. I've been at fine stores everywhere.

I think Redecor8 is on to something. I vaguely remember a room with a wall treatement like that, but I don't remmeber where I saw it, which tells me it wasn't in a book or magazine. Those I can always remember. And it must be fairly new, done by someone working in traditional style, since I'd never seen that particular technique before. I can think of engraved mirrors & reverse-painted mirrors with Chinoiserie scenes, but not this scratch-off technique. The bad part is that wherever I saw it, I wasn't taken enough with it to save a picture.

But it's almost bedtime, so maybe the designer's name will come to me once I start shutting down--if, that is, I registered it at all when I first saw it. If I did, it should come back. It sounds stupid, I know, but that half-there state is when your brain starts playing connect-the-dots and most of the time, I wake up with an answer. That doesn't, of course, guarantee that it's a good answer. A Nyquil-induced stupor one time when I was sick is what gave me the idea for my dripping-plaster table.
It's also how I once invented a new kind of sump pump that, as water pressure coming up from below--as in a flooding storm sewer during a flash flood during a sudden storm--built up beyond what's normal, would seal even tighter than normal, preventing the water's upward force from overpowering the mechanism.

I don't know how to explain the reciprocating-force gizmo my brain came up with while I was asleep, but I could see it as clear as anything, and when I drew it & showed it to a civil engineer pal, he said that it was an ingenious device whose main flaw was that it was too efficient, and that, instead of allowing water to seep in around the failing seal as the pressure built up, it would seal so tight that, eventually, the whole basement floor would erupt like a concrete volcano, destroying the entire house instead of just flooding the basement. Then again, I never claimed that it was a perfect solution.

Anyway, none of that really helps with your question, but it does show that our brains work round-the-clock, so maybe I'll remember where I saw that wall treatment after all.

Meanwhile, pleasant dreams, all.
M.

KD- thanks I am repeating it over and over memorizing it!

Could this have been at Philadelphia Museum of Art?