It's all in the fold!

In the chateau de Versailles, there is the salon of the Grand Couvert, part of the Queen's grand apartment(dining area for Marie Antoinette).

The rooms are very ornate , but those folded napkins are just amazing!

The lotus blossom is so exquisite....representing a time when meals were a ritual with much attention to detail.

No fast food foam cartons here! Just the lovely details of a formal dinner....tines down, of course! I urge you to slow down this week and enjoy a special meal. Buy some flowers, light a candle and fold your linen napkins in a clever shape! Remember, it is the celebration of the small things in daily life that really matter!

Enfilades....

An enfilade can be a piece of furniture, usually a buffet, with a minimum of four cabinet doors opening to reveal connected compartments in a row.

The Baroque era-Mannheim Palace in Germany

Enfilade(ahn'-fe-lahd) comes from the french verb "enfiler" meaning "to thread" and more commonly refers to a suite of rooms formally aligned with each other.(wikipedia def.) 

This baroque enfilade is from Catherine the Great's Palace -

I love the chinoiserie theme with this enfilade...the design mimics the pattern in the leaded glass windows.

These are the Fine Rooms at Burlington House, part of the Royal Academy of London. They remind me of a set of fired porcelain tea cups with gilded edging.

Enfilades can carry out a larger theme with each doorway varying in detail from the next, note above the doorway how each one has a different motif.

Photo courtesy New York Social Diary

This enfilade leads to the Salon des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) in Versailles.

The Golden Room in the Charlottenburg Palace is an exuberant example of Baroque

Even Marrakech architecture can be defined as enfilade...these windows repeat the pattern

I love how the classical pediments repeat, slightly different from the previous set.

Photo from Ca'Toga

No one "works" the concept of enfilade better than Carlo Marchiori in his home Ca'Toga. Venetian born, he frames the outer doors with replica gondola moorings. Pediments over the door continue with the second set of doors and the story is completed with the hand painted chest and trompe l'oeil curtains and sky with Campanile on the back wall.

As much as I love Baroque art, I must end this with a newer interpretation of an enfilade. It fits the definition perfectly.

Along your travels in life, have you seen an example of an enfilade that made your heart skip a beat? Please share your experiences with me!!