Discover Thousands of Years of Chinese Culture in Rhode Island
Vast Collection of Classic Chinese Antique Furniture and Unique Asian Decor
Accent your home with hand selected
Chinese antiques and exquisite reproductions from the largest collection
in Southern New England. To experience the artistry and visual elegance of
these pieces, we invite you to browse
our exotic 8,000 square foot gallery /
warehouse and excite your senses.
Discover why discerning homeowners, designers and decorators from
Boston to New York use Pan Zhai as
their source for Asian home decor furnishings and accessories. As direct importers Pan Zhai offers them to you
with surprising affordability.
940 WATERMANAVENUE EAST PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND 02914
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the gallery occupies one-half of Olsen’s
home, where bright white shelves are filled with
an inventory of framed prints, hand-painted
ceramics, and affordable greeting cards.
Massachusetts’s Cape Ann. Her house doubles as an eponymous gallery where she sells
original prints and hand-painted pottery.
Just down the street, Olsen also fronts Isla
Beach House, a Lilliputian boutique filled
with breezy, bohemian clothes that reflect
her new life.
“It was time to lighten the load,” she says.
“And I’m really happy. The art community is
great, like a little village.”
But to understand how she managed to
bounce back so heartily from the Claiborne
fiasco, it’s necessary (for us and for her) to go
back to the beginning.
Originally from Connecticut, Olsen
graduated from Montserrat College of Art in
Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1974 with a degree
in painting and printmaking. Her first experiments with textiles were “potato prints,”
stamps made from carving a design into half
of a raw potato.
“I realized that they had legs,” she says of
her colorful fabrics. “And it became a cottage
