Chinoiserie Pianos

Chinoiserie is getting everywhere these days though fascinatingly now increasingly less to appeal to the exotic fantasies of westerners and more to turn a buck from nouveau riche Chinese themselves. Witness 1066 Pianos who advertise regularly in magazines and newspapers to the rich and are currently touting new style Steinways, art-deco style pianos (quite nice) and the “Reborn Bluthner, in decorated Chinoiserie style with lacquer artcase”