Picasso Style Bench in Red Ultrasuede
Linda Harrison fell in love with this painting and we made a custom bench in the Picasso style with red ultrasuede upholstery to sit beneath it. She created an entrance hall guests will remember.
The Avenue Road Showroom
Five o'clock sun lights a bedroom vignette. The new showroom at 98 Avenue Road offers ever-changing vignettes of furnishings to purchase that exemplify our design work. This display has already sent many of its components home with customers.
Tudor renewal for Irene and Till Davy.
Julie Legal, photographer
This 1920's Tudor house had a large dark stone fireplace that overwhelmed the room and didn't draw well. The new firebox burns beautifully in an Eramosa marble surround from Marble Trend and a custom designed mantle from our own woodshop. By duplicating the room's wood trim and adding a hand carved oval rosette, client and designer together conceive an architectural addition that might have been original. Twin sofas are recovered in Robert Allen fabric. Carpet from Artweave reinforces the warm colour scheme which gently contrasts to the dining room's gardenview coolness.
Oval table and thirties inspired chairs carry the theme while botanical prints, leafy upholstery and blue / green walls tell you that the dining room overlooks a large garden.
ENTRANCE HALL
The first impression guests receive of this latest unit in the Yorkville Suites group of furnished rental suites is a large and oddly shaped hallway. The design challenge was to unify the space, bearing in mind that suitcases come in and out on a regular basis. During those critical seconds after the door has opened, the potential client has to feel that his/her search for a temporary home has ended.
In keeping with Neil Thadani’s title “The Tuscan Suite", I painted limestone blocks with more colour than is customarily used. Just for fun, a keystone pattern was placed over the double doors which house the washer/dryer and face the dining room and living room.
The process begins with measuring and planning the size and position of the “blocks". Lines are ruled, tape placed along the lines, and hand-mixed coloured glazes sponged carefully in layers until the right effect is reached.
I worked with an enthusiastic team consisting of an assistant and the client’s wife. Three and a half days later the tapes were removed.
GLAMOUR IS ROMANTIC
Design Magazine Editor extraordinaire Barbara Dixon asked our help with draperies et cetera for Carmela Savoia's Suite in a newly renovated Victorian house. We used a deeply carved and gilt valance for emerald green velvet drapes in the gabled window of the living room.
In the bedroom, soft roman shades and full silk drapes compliment Jim Conelly‘s painted stripe walls and frame Carmela's lovely bed in the fenstered alcove. Our antique chaise was redressed in gold silk for Trinket to rest on.
Boussac wallpaper framed in antiqued mouldings grace the master bath. The panels are almost as easy to handle as framed artwork. They can change rooms and you can change papers.
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