caroline entertains the girls

An antique table in the entry hall

Caroline recently hosted a 40th birthday a friend, with a party for 14 women in her home. And it was a sleep over!!! Her already beautiful home got a few updates, that I am sure the girls loved.
I snapped a few casual photos I thought you might enjoy...

The living room is a perfect pretty mix

The office is off the entry hall
Don't you love the staircase?!

The shelves in the family room styled to perfection!

The family room - don't you love the chair?!
Adore the brick floors?

Caroline recently installed lambrequins to great effect in an upstairs den

The Ikat shade under the lambrequin is to die for
Check out Style Court HERE
For all you need to know about lambrequins

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The dining room got a new coat of paint - it's like butter!
There's also a new sisal rug and new drapes

More shelf styling in the master bedroom

Florentine desk in the master bedroom
Kartell Victoria Ghost Chair

An attic retreat for one of the girls

A fabulous mini metamorphosis for the girls!

Check out Between Naps On The Porch for the fun weekly feature, Metamorphosis Mondays HERE

Caroline Robert will decorate your home too! Call her at perch. 504 899 -2122

the blue angel finds a home

perch. sold this incredible painting by artist Louis St. Lewis. While we miss having it in the shop, I am sure you agree that this blue angel has found a very beautiful home in New Orleans.

perch. exclusively represents Louis St. Lewis in New Orleans.

Thank you Clara for sending us this photo.

santo with milagros

perch. styles a setting featuring a large santo
Jack Mayberry painting

perch. has a lovely reproduction of an antique santo. It has articulated arms and legs, and is hand painted in a lovely distressed finish. The face is especially pretty.

It is displayed standing on a modern printed Lucite table staged as a desk. Pulled up to it is a vintage Chinoiserie chair. The art work over the desk is a painting by Jack Mayberry, and the photograph to one side is by Lisa Conrad called "St. Roch Milagros".
We love this mix of antique, vintage, and contemporary elements, don't you?

Santo and milagros

St. Roch is a very old cemetery in New Orleans with a unique chapel. The Chapel is the most unusual in the city, with its hundreds of mementos (milagros) of cures attributed to St. Roch. Shoes, braces, crutches, and replicas of body parts line the walls. There is also a whisper that some of this is related to Voodoo, as ceremonies were once supposed to have taken place here.

photograph by Lisa Conrad at perch.

Wish List:
Santo - 475.
Lucite console - 3500.
Jack Mayberry painting - 1150.
Lisa Conrad photograph - 400.
Chinoiserie chair (sold as a pair) - 3500.

Call us: 504 899 2122
Stop by: 2844 Magazine Street, New Orleans

the turquoise files - the perfect chandelier

perch. Murano style turquoise chandelier

We loved it in purple HERE

But now, we die, because this glass chandelier comes in turquoise HERE! It looks like Venetian glass from the island of Murano. But it's really a great case of copy cat chic, and the price of 1950. makes a big look for a great price.

perch. Murano style red chandelier

And then to add the red cherry to the top, there's the same glam chandelier in over-the -top hot mama red HERE!

Call us to order! 504 899 - 2122.

apricot tablescape

perch. tablescape features a mix of things

By now you know that perch. is a home furnishings shop in New Orleans, so the tablescapes we do are different than the ones you do in your homes. Still we hope we inspire you with some of the pretty things we have in the shop.

Apricot silk tableskirt custom made at perch.

We custom made a tableskirt from apricot color silk, with bold over size ruche-ing at the hemline. The plates on the table are mainly Cadeaux melamine, mixed in with some antique pierced poreclain compotes. There's a child size pink sugar and creamer too, and some ceramic pansy bowls.

Hope our cheery colors help lift your winter spirits!

Stop by Susan's Tablescape Thursdays HERE to see some really fantastic tables.

what we are loving now

perch. loves this Vitra wall organizer

perch. has this wall organizer in our office, and at least one person daily wants to buy it. We don't sell it, but you can get it HERE

nest of antlers

perch. deer antlers - 15. each

perch. just got in a new shipment of deer antlers. They are real, and naturally shed by the deer. Caroline's dad collected them from the woods around his home. We are selling them for a modest $15. each.

Call us if you would like us to send you one or more. They are a lovely object to display. Nobody does color like Mother Nature, and this is the most perfect greige-y white shade that could inspire an entire color palette for a room.

mirror mirror

perch. silver leaf mirror - 3200.

perch. has a pair of these spectacular silver leaf mirrors. They are huge, 45 x 61 and we were told they were custom made for a hotel in New York City.

Where would use one? Or the pair?

Call us if you would like one. Or two!

504 899 2122

one room four ways

1. The room today with a Boston Sofa, mid century Danish chairs, Bungalow 5 side tables, Murano lamps, antelope print rug, Shiner bar stool turned on its side as a coffee table, metal sculpture dog, silver leaf mirror, Louis St. Lewis painting

perch., the shop, is in an old antebellum house in New Orleans. We arrange merchandise as if it's a home, though not in a literal way, but rather in a gestural way to give people inspiration of how great their own homes can look.

2. The same room set for a Christmas dinner party with red acrylic ballroom chairs

We move things around every couple of months. Merchandise comes and goes, and seasons change, and of course there are three designers here (Caroline Robert, Jack Mayberry, Valorie Hart) who get visually restless.

3. Here's the room set up as an elegant sitting room. The Hampton sofa is covered in another cut velvet, a sheepskin rug, white lacquer side tables, violet Murano lamps, a Roman bust, antique mandolin, vintage red Chinoiserie highboy, antique carved red and gilt wood finials, and the dog sculpture all add up to the mix we do best here at perch.
This view was widely photographed and published.

So here is one room we arrange and rearrange, the front parlor on the right when you walk in the center hall door. The constants are the Madame Noir chandelier, the cut velvet drapes, and the fireplace.

4. Summer dining room with burlap table with a wide vintage velvet trim, vintage French chairs, photo on mantle by Lisa Conrad, and painting by Mallory Chastant

The room has been set up as a sitting room and a dining space. The magic of this house is that several rooms can be switched around. We love all the iterations. Do you have a favorite?

new items on perch. web site

perch. vintage settee - 2950.

It's a new year and we are adding new items to the web site.

perch. Danish mid century modern chair - 900.

perch. antique Belgian rustic table - 1650.

Please take a look, and get lost browsing the hundreds of items there to inspire you.

Antique Swedish storage bench - 1100.

Call us if there is anything you would love to have to feather your nest for the new year.

perch. French style credenza - 4400.

perch. French style bench in white - 550.

perch. French style bench in oak - 550.

perch. French style bench in natural - 550.

perch. french bench in black leather - 550.