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| Lotus Bleu has been shaped by designer Jeannie Fraise's love of travel, artistic background, and design experience. She loves to layer colorful and graphic modern textiles and accessories to create playful but "real" living spaces. Inspired by her grandmother's many exotic travels and family trips to Europe and Africa growing up, Jeannie studied art history in Florence and spent a semester in college on her first voyage around the world traveling by ship to Asia, Africa and South America. On this adventure, she met her husband Christophe, a French national from Madagascar. During the past 20 years, they have traveled extensively, focusing their time in France and Southeast Asia where they have located many unique sources for home décor. In the past few years, they went on their most important voyages ever to bring home their beautiful children: son Kai from Vietnam and daughter Tulla from China. |
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Coming to the design profession from an artistic background, Jeannie moved from NYC to California to get her M.A. and Ph.D. candidacy in art history from Stanford University. Her graduate research focused on Florine Stettheimer, a celebrated American painter and interior decorator who created innovative portraits and interiors in New York. Jeannie also worked in the curatorial departments of museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford. While writing her dissertation, she completed her first full-scale project, her own three-story fixer upper in the Mission, which was featured in Better Homes and Gardens, and her first client was a curator at the Stanford museum. Since then, Jeannie has completed over forty residential design projects, and her work has been included in the San Francisco Decorator's Showcase and has received much regional and national press. |
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