Our 37th birthday was a glorious tribute to Chinoiserie, and here's the play by play
We are living in the “Asian Century”—a proclamation we hear a lot, from business summits to entertainment awards. For this year’s Singapore Tatler Ball, we paid homage to the rise of Asia by choosing Chinoiserie as our theme. Defined as the western interpretation and imitation of Asian traditions that became popular in the 17th and 18th centuries, influences of this East-meets-West visual movement is still going strong in decorative arts, landscape design and architecture to this day.