shabby chic , auch: Shabby Chic

Shabby Chic, a once unstoppable force in home furnishings, also went under.

But irony alert: This new brand of shabby chic doesn't come cheap.

The decorating style known as "shabby chic" has also created a demand for salvaged items.

Its genuinely shabby chic overshadows the house's perpetual work-in-progress state.

Mr Reilly said the house had been very well looked after and its "shabby chic" made it a comfortable rather than a formal home.

Eventually, we got Shabby Chic, showcased at the store of the same name and by myriad other imitators.

The early forms of shabby chic were rather grand but the style has evolved taking inspiration from many forms of decoration.

The end result of shabby chic is to achieve an elegant overall effect, as opposed to the sentimentally cute Pop-Victorian.

At Shabby Chic the slipcovers, throw pillows and accessories seem to have been arrested at just the right stage of decay.

I have lived through Art Furniture, Ralph Lauren and Shabby Chic.

Four new brands have been introduced, including Label Lab in men’s wear and Shabby Chic in the home department.

Craft became cool with Etsy's launch in 2005, and shabby chic was born, giving rise to a whole new style of deliberately distressed, mismatched imperfection.

The crisply tailored furniture is meant to be an antidote, Mr. Hase said, to the shabby chic of slipcovers.

In Los Angeles, the city that started the trend for sloppy-slipcovered gentility, as embodied by a store called Shabby Chic, something new is taking form.

Shabby chic has become Chessex Chic – half-Chelsea, half-Essex.

For those new to the term, Chic Antique is a specific selection of Shabby Chic from one of our most popular suppliers.

Faded avocado carpet covers some of the floors, while "shabby chic" would be a generous description of some of the wallpaper and furniture.

So have a raft of others, including the flagship store of Rachel Ashwell Shabby Chic, which called it quits last week.

Rachel has been partnering with Target since 2006 with Simply Shabby Chic, a Target exclusive brand.

Floppy and faded is the look at Shabby Chic in New York and Santa Monica, Calif.

In addition, it received the right to sell Simply Shabby Chic, a line that Mr. Dreher said was previously available only in specialty shops.

Today, however, at places like Shabby Chic in SoHo, its descendant is called a Squadgy, a square, squashy oversize club chair.

The site Shelterpop.com asked, "Can Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Survive in Modern Times?"

Besides the upholstered furniture, Shabby Chic carries accessories like turn-of-the-century chandeliers and throw pillows, linens and old wicker hampers, mirrors and paintings.

THE sloppily slipcovered upholstery at Shabby Chic looks so inviting, you want to curl up on a sofa or club chair or chaise for a nap.

Shabby Chic, a once unstoppable force in home furnishings, also went under.

Eventually, we got Shabby Chic, showcased at the store of the same name and by myriad other imitators.

At Shabby Chic the slipcovers, throw pillows and accessories seem to have been arrested at just the right stage of decay.

I have lived through Art Furniture, Ralph Lauren and Shabby Chic.

Four new brands have been introduced, including Label Lab in men’s wear and Shabby Chic in the home department.

In Los Angeles, the city that started the trend for sloppy-slipcovered gentility, as embodied by a store called Shabby Chic, something new is taking form.

For those new to the term, Chic Antique is a specific selection of Shabby Chic from one of our most popular suppliers.

So have a raft of others, including the flagship store of Rachel Ashwell Shabby Chic, which called it quits last week.

Rachel has been partnering with Target since 2006 with Simply Shabby Chic, a Target exclusive brand.

Floppy and faded is the look at Shabby Chic in New York and Santa Monica, Calif.

In addition, it received the right to sell Simply Shabby Chic, a line that Mr. Dreher said was previously available only in specialty shops.

Today, however, at places like Shabby Chic in SoHo, its descendant is called a Squadgy, a square, squashy oversize club chair.

The site Shelterpop.com asked, "Can Rachel Ashwell's Shabby Chic Survive in Modern Times?"

Besides the upholstered furniture, Shabby Chic carries accessories like turn-of-the-century chandeliers and throw pillows, linens and old wicker hampers, mirrors and paintings.

THE sloppily slipcovered upholstery at Shabby Chic looks so inviting, you want to curl up on a sofa or club chair or chaise for a nap.

Among the guests were Rachel Ashwell, author of Shabby Chic, and Sarah Ban Breathnach, author of Simple Abundance.

"It may be a shift in esthetic to richer, darker, heavier," said Dara Buck, Shabby Chic's co-founder, who has added velvets to her signature line of "soft and floppy" cotton damasks.

Type the brand's name, Shabby Chic, into eBay's search field, and some 7,500 listings come back, few of them with any concrete connection to the business Ms. Ashwell started in California in 1989.

The expensive Shabby Chic brand, with its fabrics that look like well-worn vintage textiles, has spun off an affordable cotton bedding collection, Simply Shabby Chic, at Target.

Arriving earlier this month at the Brentwood home of his girlfriend, Rachel Ashwell, the founder of the brand Shabby Chic, Mr. Cole suddenly realized he had forgotten a vase she needed for a magazine photo shoot.

Previous positions included CFO/COO with Rachel Ashwell Designs, Inc./Shabby Chic, and Group CFO of Warnaco Swimwear, along with senior finance roles at other Warnaco divisions.

By mid-2011, Shabby Chic Brands expanded further into the United Kingdom, pairing the House of Fraser to offer the "Shabby Chic at House of Fraser" product line.

Early programming included: The Look For Less, Shabby Chic with Rachel Ashwell, Glow: The Beauty Show, Vogue Takes..., Stylemaker, Model, Runway, Dining With Style, and Homes With Style.

The New York Times, on the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in its annual trend roundup in 1992, recognised Ashwell's company and her signature product, the slipcover, writing, "not the trim, well-fitting kind, but sloppy, wrinkled ones dubbed 'Shabby Chic' by a California company of the same name."

When Mr. Shellman, who lives in a 1901 Tudor-style house in New Rochelle, described his style as "Shabby Chic meets Morocco," Mr. Miller, who lives in white brick university housing, amended his own self-description of "messy" to "books meets Pompanoosuc Mills."