Posted 11 years ago
Chefjames
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My Mother gave me this chair. She grew up in Panama and has a lot of Japanese and Chinese art and furniture that her parents bought in the early 1900s.
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Spanish colonial / Chinese?!! interesting melange of cultures.
Probably due to the incredible amount of diversity that people who lived in the Canal Zone saw. ANYTHING being shipped from Asia to the Eastern US or Europe went through the canal. My Grandmother and Mother had some extraordinary stuff and as you say, much of it blended attributes of different cultures. Probably the most dominant theme in all of their furniture, china, art, etc., was Japanese and Chinese.