( Could I?) I would buy wine just to put it in a decanter.ĭeco note #12: Vintage decanters, always and forever.ġ1. There is no better way to drink, anything. Possibly her sweater!ĭeco note #11: There is a place for a triple-velvet experience, even if it will hopefully never be my own personal house.ġ0. Is everything in this image velvet? Certainly the pillows, certainly the sofa, and possibly the walls. Amélie watches TV: what an explosion of colors (well, color, plus blue) and textures. I absolutely could not live with red walls or a green TV (and matching accessories) - but talk about building a depth of color and textures!ĩ. I have a lot of those decanters in my little shop and at this point I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t have one.Īnd look! She’s growing basil on her windowsill.ĭeco note #9: Cheerful kitchenalia is usually not much more expensive than depressing white dishes, and should be explored.ĭeco note #10: Grow own herbs whenever possible.Ĩ. Note the glass decanter (there’s another one, with wine in it, in a later scene with her dad) and that familiar red-and-blue-and-white dish, which is common here and is seen toward the end, with M. Amélie’s kitchen, which she has dressed to match: red cabinets, a red colander. So many curtains in this movie.ĭeco note #8: Kitschy art of animals (like the Saint Bernard) can be fun, and is usually cheap.ħ. Wallace’s space, with the painting (needlepoint?) of the Saint Bernard. At least there’s wine.ĭeco note #7: I’m not doing this many knickknacks, but … it’s a look.Ħ. The clutter! There’s an anchor, fans, embroidery sample, dancing doll, daffodils, two fabric-covered lamps, and above her shoulder, what looks like an embroidery of a buffalo walking into a snowy meadow. IDK, I can’t with the red sheets, but they do contribute to a powerful color story.ĥ. My linen is entirely white, so this is a paradigm shift.ĭeco note #6: Not all Euro beds are duvet-only. ![]() And what an amazing bedding set-up: a single sheet, a square quilt, and two square pillows - noting the red-and-gold color combination, which matches her red walls. (Also love that slip!!!)ĭeco note #5: Nothing immediately gives a room character and depth like an over-the-top baroque wallpaper, like this one.Ĥ. Amélie has at least three different ornate red wallpapers in her apartment. I’m going to come home from the flea market tomorrow with a lot of vintage bottles.ĭeco note #4: Tiled floors? Can you do a tiled floor?ģA. Note the amazing turquoise and cream tiled floor, and the vintage bottle. Like these - Etsy is a good place to find them.ĭeco note #3: Consider vintage medicine cabinet.ģ. #2: Now: Note above her right shoulder, the vintage medicine cabinet. Lesson #2: Sleep in lovely slips, not T-shirts. Lesson #1: Decant all decantable liquids into vintage perfume bottles, stat. What else? (Besides the Petit Bateau cotton T-shirts that I wear every night and should definitely be replaced in favor of the slip? #1: And also I will buy a slip to wear while applying my face oil from a beautiful vintage bottle. The movie’s production design was by Aline Bonetto, who’s French (unsurprisingly, given her long association with Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet) and is also working on the Wonder Woman sequel.Ĭlick on the images for a larger version, with more details. (A girl can dream.) Until then, I will take notes, and I will take notes beginning with Amélie’s cluttered, beautiful, jewel-box (ruby!) apartment. (After the cable technician did a perfectly reasonable job of running the cable along the ceiling, my landlord took one look at the (utterly blemish-free) wall and said: “We’ll have to redo this from scratch.”) Some day, I will buy my own, and I will do all of the things, I will have wallpaper and nails and, God willing, herringbone floors. I am definitely not allowed to glue flocked wallpaper to the walls. I am not allowed to put nails in the wall. I definitely do not live in an Amélie-style apartment now: My apartment, in a 17th century building, is newly and wholly refurbished. I nearly did at one point: I had a red-and-black-and-white tile-floored kitchen, and a gigantic pink bathtub, and a massive window with an iron balustrade that would have overlooked the Eiffel Tower except for one incredibly annoying building directly across the street from me. I always wondered if I’d have an apartment like Amélie. Less stick-in-mud, if you will, than stick-in-marble. The good news is, of course, that those ways are beautiful, and elegant, and exceptional. There’s plenty not to like about that, really: Paris can be terribly stuck in its ways. And as much as it’s an homage to the past - all pasts, everywhere - it is also, of course, a love letter to Paris, and Paris’s own immutability. I saw it for the first time at just the right time. ![]() I’m not sure that I moved to Paris because of Amélie, but I’m not sure I didn’t, either.
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