Each week, Mansion Global tackles a topic with an elite group of designers from around the world who work on luxury properties. This week, we look at tips for adding classic toile de Jouy patterns ...

Toile is back, and guess what? The new patterns are brilliant and beautiful! I know what you are thinking. Toile? Isn’t that the traditional, overly busy pattern that our parents and grandparents used ...

One of the season's most interesting patterns was first introduced in the 18th century, and you might associate it more with wallpaper and museum artefacts than runway fashion: toile, also known as ...

You may not know its name, but you'd recognize toile when you saw it. And lately we've been seeing it a lot -- in tote bags, lampshades, tablecloths, even halter tops, short-shorts and light switch ...

For centuries, Toile de Jouy has conjured a sense of luxury and refinement. Characterized by repeated motifs and illustrative pastoral scenes, the pattern often mirrored major events of the time. To ...

The 18th-century monochromatic print fabric beloved by Marie Antoinette now has myriad variations. By Ginanne Brownell In a scene from the recent film “Another Simple Favor,” Anna Kendrick’s character ...

In an age of in-your-face advertising and rapid-fire TV images, there’s something comforting about toile. If you’re not familiar with the term toile (pronounced “twal”), you probably know the look: an ...

You probably know the Toile de Jouy pattern by sight, if not by name. The red-and-white or blue-and-white design features ink-like vignettes of trees, farmers gleaning, hot air balloons, horse-drawn ...

How exactly did a thick cotton fabric festooned with frolicking shepherdsses, bales of hay, and general pastoral merriment become one of today’s biggest design fixations? We’re talking about toile de ...

You’re probably familiar with toile de Jouy even if you don’t realize it. Whether you’re a maximalist or lover of traditional design, you’ve certainly encountered the iconic printed fabric, which has ...