often saving them from extinction), someone in the team similarly gazed at a lake scene depicted on one of the 19th-century lacquered Coromandel screens in Mademoiselle Chanel’s Rue Cambon ...

and because Coco Chanel was a collector of Coromandel lacquered screens, displaying them around her apartment on Rue Cambon. Among her pieces was a screen that featured a scene depicting West Lake ...

In a way, it was a painting come to life. Or more specifically, a realization of the illustrated scenery on Gabrielle Chanel’s Coromandel screens that still stand in her famed Rue Cambon ...