What I wouldn’t give to live inside the pastoral scenes of a toile de Jouy print. The sheep grazing and hounds leaping paint a countryside fantasy I’ll never understand as an L.A. native. Still, for this California girl, even the most idyllic meadows have nothing on snow, which is why I’m obsessed with the emerging winter toile interior design trend.
Toile de Jouy, the 18th-century French fabric of finely detailed, repeatable scenes in a single color, has always been shorthand for taste. Usually coded for summer (no one’s fantasy pastoral includes snowshoes), it’s now been recast for winter.
