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Mughal Decorative Pattern

Mughal Decorative Pattern

Bourdain / Malcolm Gladwell has opined about some of us being connectors. Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018) was definitely a connector. He managed to bring to our living rooms the richest part of the human experience. He explored places and locales, people and cultures through our most basic need - food. With his easy manner he informed us, charmed us and challenged us with putting across a different viewpoint and perspective.

A New Take on Murals

A New Take on Murals / As a decorative artist, I find pictures of these murals inspirational for our times. If rolling pastoral scenes are not for you or maybe they don’t suit your decor and/or space, here are some attractive options ...

Cy Twombly / Edwin Parker "Cy" Twombly Jr. (April 25, 1928 – July 5, 2011) was an American painter, sculptor and photographer. He belonged to the generation of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns but chose to live in Italy after 1957.

His paintings are predominantly large-scale, freely-scribbled, calligraphic and graffiti-like works on solid fields of mostly gray, tan, or off-white colors. Many of his works are in the permanent collections of most of the museums of modern art around the world. Wiki

Piero Fornasetti

Piero Fornasetti / Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988) was a Milanese painter, sculptor, interior decorator, engraver of books and a creator of more than 11,000 products. In terms of variety of decoration, Fornasetti’s production of objects and furniture is one of the largest of the 20th century.

Fornasetti is celebrated as being among the most original creative talents of the twentieth century. During his career he created a visual vocabulary that is instantly recognisable and unceasingly engaging. Fornasetti designed a magical world, saturated in image and colour and filled with whimsy and wit.

Groucho and His Brothers

Groucho and His Brothers / Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977). An American comedian and film and television star, was known as a master of witticism and is still considered one of the best comedians of modern times. His razor-sharp wit and incredibly fast answers have created some of the most famous, hilarious quotes that people still quote today.

Nancy Lancaster and John Fowler

Nancy Lancaster and John Fowler / Nancy Lancaster was born Nancy Keene Perkins in Virginia in 1897, her father was a Virginia cotton broker, she was raised in homes in Richmond, VA and New York City. Her first husband was Henry Field, an heir to the Marshall Field’s department store fortune, but he died 5 months into their marriage after becoming ill in the flu epidemic of 1918. In 1920, she married her deceased husband’s cousin, Ronald Tree, and the new couple moved to England. Nancy was known to have a natural talent and excellent taste in all things decorative and it became very apparent after she moved to England and began decorating homes for her family. In 1933, Ronald Tree was elected to Parliament and he and his wife began traveling in powerful social and political circles. Nancy Lancaster teamed up with decorator John Fowler and founded Colefax & Fowler, the firm known for popularizing Country House decor, the look is characterized by brightly colored walls, use of chintz fabric, the use of furniture from different periods of time. Nancy Lancaster has left behind a legacy of not only Colefax & Fowler but also shaking up the stringent decorating rules of British decor, as Mario Buatta put it, “after Nancy blew into town, England loosened up and started looking more personal and lived-in.”(Tabulousdesign.com)
John Fowler (1906-1977) was not a member of the elite social circles that Sibyl was accustomed to, but a professional artisan and skilled interior decorator with specialisms in wallpaper, printing and upholstery. He had lost his job at the paint firm Thornton Smith in the downturn following the Wall Street Crash. His skills however, had led antique dealer and decorator Margaret Kunzer to enlist him in her furniture restoration activities supplying Peter Jones department store. John Fowler’s expertise also gave him opportunities to work with Mrs Guy Bethell whose own shop off Grosvenor Square had connected her to Nancy and Ronald Tree. By 1934, John had set up his own small business as John Beresford Fowler Ltd in King’s Road Chelsea, and a stone’s throw from Sibyl Colefax’s Argyll House. By setting up his wares in his garden on a daily basis it was only a matter of time before this society hostess would snap him up. By 1938 Sibyl Colefax was living at Lord North Street and when he joined her company as partner, John Fowler was one of the most sought after decorators. (Tweedleandthegentlemansclub)

Rex Whistler / Rex Whistler (1905-1944) was a gifted and prolific British artist, muralist, decorative painter and illustrator. You may have come across his work if you’ve been to the Tate’s dining room - the Rex Whistler Restaurant. The mural remained intact despite the 1928 flooding of the Thames, thanks to a combination of oil paints, wax and turpentine. Rex went on to paint portraits, murals in private homes as well as illustrating many books.
Textile design was another field that benefitted from Rex Whistler's talent. His design for a toile de jouy printed cotton is still produced by the Clovelly Silk Company.
Instead of avoiding enlisting in the Second World War he served as a tank commander of an armored division that crossed into Normandy following the D-Day invasions and was killed on his day of action. So sad to have lost this incredibly talented man, The Times received more letters about his death than any other person during WW2

Organizing small spaces

Organizing small spaces

Reflections & Wabi Sabi

Reflections & Wabi Sabi / Wabi Sabi et les autres choses

Fortuny❤️ / Talent - pure talent Born in Granada, Spain his family moved to Paris when he was 3 where his passion of textiles led him to begin designing and producing his own fabrics. He was also a gifted painter, inventor, architect, sculptor, photographer and even a theatrical lighting engineer. At 18 he moved to Venice and set up the Palazzo Fortuny where he lived and worked, now a wonderful museum. (1871-1949)

Gorgeous Gallenga

Gorgeous Gallenga / All things Gallenga - not just gowns. I love her original and creative stencil patterns inspired by medieval and Renaissance motifs on dramatic colored velvets. She worked out of her studio in Florence. Along with her husband, she invented a unique metallic block printing technique that gave their textiles a distinct hue. (1880-1944)

Decorative Ideas and Inspirations

Decorative Ideas and Inspirations / Finish, color, texture and pattern

Furniture / Furniture that makes a statement and sets a mood....

Decorative Painting

Decorative Painting / Faux painting, metallic plaster, stone, Venetian plaster, stenciling, murals, free hand painting, faux bois and gilding

Art / The art and artists I love ❤️

Architecturally speaking

Architecturally speaking / A record of some strikingly unique buildings from all over the world

A step in the right direction......

A step in the right direction...... / Indoor staircases and outdoor steps worthy of more than a second look.

Gilding / Amping up surfaces with real and imitation leaf - gold, copper, silver and patinated.

Distinctive Interiors

Distinctive Interiors / Stunning Interiors

Textiles and Pattern

Textiles and Pattern / Fabric and other Textiles that could blow your socks off.

A-door / One opens and another one closes?

Stenciling / On the level

Stitches / It's all sewn up

Chalk Paint / Annie Sloan Chalk Paint colors and ideas

Metallics / Metallic paints, plasters and textures

Children's Rooms

Children's Rooms / Nurseries, children's' rooms, bathrooms and wall murals

Manor Garden Room Ceiling Finish

Manor Garden Room Ceiling Finish / Manor - Garden Room Ceiling

Finishes / Faux Finishes in the true sense. Replicating a surface that occurs naturally like stone, wood, marble etc.

Pretty things / Pretty things that catch my eye

Bridal suites / A set of pictures which provided inspiration for areas where brides would feel special on the day they tie the knot.

Ceiling ideas / Interesting, stunning, quirky and inspired ceilings

Craft Course Ideas

Craft Course Ideas / Ideas to incorporate into fun quick courses

Pattern / Designs that Engage.

Sublime Floors, Mosaics and Tile Patterns

Sublime Floors, Mosaics and Tile Patterns / Floor patterns

Paint / All things painterly

Shawls and Paisley Patterns

Shawls and Paisley Patterns

Flora and Fauna

Flora and Fauna / Inspired floral displays

My Decorative Finishes

My Decorative Finishes / A collection of my custom finishes rendered for specific areas and surfaces.

Rethinks / The path less taken

Japanese Style / This board explores the rich history of culture and the arts of this beautiful land.

Calligraphy, Letters and Monograms

Calligraphy, Letters and Monograms / The love of lettering and signage

The Devil is in the Details

The Devil is in the Details

Bloomin' Bloomsbury

Bloomin' Bloomsbury

Ornamenta / Embellishments with architectural and decorative carved and composition moldings.

Aliya Riaz ~ Paint Techniques Videos

Aliya Riaz ~ Paint Techniques Videos / A series of videos explaining simple decorative painting and glazing techniques which will help you get great results in your home.

Millwork, Medallions & Moldings

Millwork, Medallions & Moldings

Drawings and Templates

Drawings and Templates

Appealing Spaces

Appealing Spaces / Comfortable and casual areas that we can enjoy being in.

Illustration & Print

Illustration & Print

Tips / Ideas to organize and help us in our daily life

Antiqued~Signs of Age

Antiqued~Signs of Age / Some of these signs of aging on surfaces are real, some not!

Festive Entertaining

Festive Entertaining / Fun ideas to set the scene

Furlow Gatehouse

Furlow Gatehouse

Temari / Temari (手まり) balls are a folk art form and Japanese craft that originated in China and was introduced to Japan around the 7th century A.D. "Temari" means "hand ball" in Japanese. Balls made from embroidery may be used in handball games.

Historically, temari were constructed from the remnants of old kimonos. Pieces of silk fabric would be wadded up to form a ball, and then the wad would be wrapped with strips of fabric. As time passed, traditional temari became an art, with the functional stitching becoming more decorative and detailed, until the balls displayed intricate embroidery. With the introduction of rubber to Japan, the balls went from toys to art objects, although mothers still make them for their children. Temari became an art and craft of the Japanese upper class and aristocracy, and noble women competed in creating increasingly beautiful and intricate objects.

Temari are highly valued and cherished gifts, symbolizing deep friendship and loyalty. Also, the brilliant colors and threads used are symbolic of wishing the recipient a brilliant and happy life. Traditionally, becoming a craftsman in Japan was a tedious process. Becoming a temari artist in Japan today requires specific training, and one must be tested on one's skills and technique before being acknowledged as a crafter of temari. Wiki

Amrita Sher-Gil

Amrita Sher-Gil / India's Frida Kahlo - 1913-1941. The daughter of a Sikh aristocrat and a Hungarian opera singer was never going to be ordinary. But Amrita Sher-Gil – in her art, in her adventuress life, and in the photographs taken of her by her pioneering father in the early 1900s – proved truly remarkable.

Redouté Renderings

Redouté Renderings / Also known as the “Raphael of Flowers”, Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) was so successful that his works were imitated around the world, and his flower images have blossomed in books, works of art, on wallpaper, fashion accessories, etc.
Redouté was a painter and botanist from Belgium, especially known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison. He has been called the greatest botanical illustrator of all time.

David Patchen / David Patchen is an American glass artist and designer who uses the Italian techniques of cane and murrine in an American style. (Cane are colored and patterned glass rods, murrine are patterned cross-sections of glass 'tiles'.) Patchen's work is known for a combination of complexity and scale in densely patterned glass

Clément Massier et al

Clément Massier et al / French ceramicist Clément Massier 1845-1917 is best known for his iridescent luster glazed pieces. Clément along with brothers Jérôme & Delphin were from a family of potters in Vallauris, southern France. All three worked in the family business of Jérôme Massier et Cie (Jérôme was their father's name) in Vallauris, but later worked independently.

Clément, the middle brother, born in 1845, was the most prominent of the three. He worked in Vallauris before moving to nearby Golfe-Juan, and is remembered for his lustre glazes which were later taken up by the American Weller company. He was a leading Art Nouveau figure and at the turn of the century opened a salon in Paris.

Dame Lucie Rie / Dame Lucie Rie, née Lucie Gomperz, (1902 Vienna—1995, London), Austrian-born British studio potter. Her unique and complex slip-glaze surface treatment and inventive kiln processing influenced an entire generation of younger British ceramists.

Rie was educated at the Vienna Gymnasium and at the Arts and Crafts School. Her early ceramics incorporate late Neoclassicism, Jugendstil, modernism, and Japonism. She settled in England in 1938 and, in order to survive during World War II, produced and sold fine ceramic buttons. In 1947 she was joined in her studio by the German-born Hans Coper.

Rie had her first solo show as a potter in 1949, was in the Arts Council Retrospective of 1967, showed with Coper in Rotterdam in 1967 and Hamburg in 1972, and was given major exhibitions in Düsseldorf, West Germany, in 1978, and in London at Sainsbury Place and the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1981–82. She was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1991. Britannia

China and Porcelain

China and Porcelain

Perfume and Containers

Perfume and Containers

Ceramic Splendor

Ceramic Splendor

Ikebana & Kokedama

Ikebana & Kokedama

It's A Wrap❣️

It's A Wrap❣️ / It’s all about the “present"

Chikankari Embroidery

Chikankari Embroidery / A traditional style of embroidery done mostly on cotton and lawn. It's one of the finest embroideries evoking the culture of Lucknow, India. Sometimes delicate beadwork is also incorporated into the technique. There is a lot of demand for chikankari in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well.

Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian / Maria Sibylla Merian, also known as Anna Maria Sibylla, (1647-1717), German-born naturalist and nature artist known for her illustrations of insects and plants. Her works on insect development and the transformation of insects through the process of metamorphosis contributed to the advance of entomology in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Joomchi and other paper art

Joomchi and other paper art

Isabelle de Borchgrave

Isabelle de Borchgrave / Born in 1946 Isabelle Jacobs by marriage, Countess de Borchgrave d'Altena is a prominent Belgian artist and sculptor, best known for her colorful paintings and intricately painted paper sculptures. She is married to Werner, count de Borchgrave d'Altena. Wiki
Obviously being a Fortuny fan, I love how she has made paper outfits in the Fortuny style as well as the artifacts she displayed in his museum as part of an exhibition in 2008.
An artist and an artisan, her work is sublime.

Clarice Cliff / Clarice Cliff was an English ceramic artist active from 1922 to 1963. She began as an apprentice potter. By reason of her talent and ability, she became a ceramic artist, becoming the head of the factory artistic department. She died in 1972. Wikipedia

Richard Keith Langham

Richard Keith Langham / Richard Keith Langham's all-American interiors unite a traditional approach with dashes of whimsy, beautiful tailoring and an exuberant color palette. He uses an incredible breadth of ideas and elements which depend on the architecture of each project, client and location.

George Barbier / George Barbier (1882-1932) was one of the key artists of the “Art Deco” movement and one of the most prestigious French artists and fashion illustrators to emerge from post World War 1 in the early twentieth century. He produced the most exquisite, high-colour fashion plates for the couturier Paul Poiret, as well as contemporaries Lanvin, Paquin and Vionnet. His elegantly refined, graphic style was typical of the “Art Deco” school and the influences of Orientalism, antique vases, Indian miniatures, Aubrey Beardsley, the Ballet Russes (which inspired his lavish costume designs) and (not least) Parisian haute couture are evident in his work. His stylised, precisely-illustrated fashion vignettes seem to effortlessly capture and define the atmosphere of the 1920s and are so evocative of that by-gone era and a certain type of upper-class lifestyle.

Frank Stella / Frank Philip Stella is an American painter, sculptor and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. Stella lives and works in New York City. Wiki

Carnet de Bal / Dance Cards ~ one can only imagine the stories these cards could tell. The emotions - love, lust, fear and/or infatuation - that were invoked as a result of dancing together whether feelings were reciprocal or unrequieted.

Seydou Keita / "It’s easy to take a photo, but what really made a difference was that I always knew how to find the right position, and I never was wrong. Their head slightly turned, a serious face, the position of the hands... I was capable of making someone look really good. The photos were always very good. That’s why I always say that it’s a real art." Keita (1921-2001)

Malick Sidibé / Malick Sidibé was a Malian photographer born in 1936 in Bamako. Initially noted for his street photography of post-independence Mali in the 60s and 70s, he went on to exhibit throughout Europe and the United States. In 2007, he became the first African winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. He passed in 2016

Renzo Mongiardino

Renzo Mongiardino / Lorenzo (Renzo) Mongiardino (12 May 1916 – 16 January 1998) was an Italian architect, interior designer and production designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Art Direction.

Josef Albers / Josef Albers, (March 19, 1888 – March 25, 1976) is best known for his abstract paintings and studies of color. He was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the twentieth century.

Anni Albers / Annelise Albers (née Fleischmann) (June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was a German textile artist and printmaker. She is perhaps the best known textile artist of the 20th century.

Edward William Godwin

Edward William Godwin / Edward William Godwin (26 May 1833, Bristol – 6 October 1886 London) was a progressive English architect-designer, who began his career working in the strongly polychromatic "Ruskinian Gothic" style of mid-Victorian Britain, inspired by The Stones of Venice, then moved on to provide designs in the "Anglo-Japanese taste" of the Aesthetic Movement and Whistler's circle in the 1870s. Godwin's influence can be detected in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Wiki

Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish / Maxfield Parrish (1870 - 1966) was an American painter and illustrator. Born Frederick Maxfield Parrish in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he began drawing for his own amusement early in his life. He went on to pursue a career that was to last for many decades and effectively shape the Golden Age of Illustration, and the future of American visual art in general. Launched by a commission to illustrate Kenneth Grahame’s The Walls Were as of Jasper in 1897, his repertoire was to include many prestigious projects such as Eugene Field’s Poems of Childhood (1904) and the traditional Arabian Nights (1909).

Vittorio Zecchin

Vittorio Zecchin / Vittorio Zecchin (1878-1947) was a painter, graphic designer, designer of glass, furniture and ceramics. The visionary Italian artist did not begin his artistic career until he was over thirty years of age. He had originally abandoned his ambitions at the age of twenty-three, when, disillusioned with the narrow, unimaginative style of teaching at the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts and convinced that nobody would listen to his ideas, he left in 1901 and became a civil servant in Murano. Zecchin remained at his municipal desk for eight long years, until 1909, by which time the first whisperings of a new artistic movement in Venice had become strong enough to persuade him that there was a place for him in the creative world. Unable to contain his creative powers any longer, Zecchin joined a group of artists, who influenced by the idea of Klimt and Toorop, had pooled their ideas and began to exhibit at the Ca’Pesaro, the Museum of Modern Art, between 1908 and 1920. More info at
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John Soane / Sir John Soane, Soane originally spelled Soan (born September 10, 1753, Goring, Oxfordshire, England—died January 20, 1837, London), British architect notable for his original, highly personal interpretations of the Neoclassical style. He is considered one of the most inventive European architects of his time. His style is characterized by a tendency to reduce Classical elements of design to their structural essentials, the substitution of linear for modeled ornamentation, frequent use of shallow domes and top lighting, and ingenious handling of interior space.

Palaces, Villas, Castles and Manors

Palaces, Villas, Castles and Manors

Galileo Chini / Galileo Chini (1873–1956) was an Italian decorator, designer, painter, and potter. A prominent member of the Italian Art nouveau movement, he taught decorative arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

Iris Apfel / Born Iris Barrel in Astoria, Queens, New York in 1921, Apfel is the only child of Samuel Barrel, whose family owned a glass-and-mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye, who owned a fashion boutique. She studied art history at New York University and attended art school at the University of Wisconsin.
As a young woman, Apfel worked for Women's Wear Daily and for interior designer Elinor Johnson. In 1948, she married Carl Apfel. Together they launched the textile firm Old World Weavers and ran it until they retired in 1992. From 1950 to 1992, Iris Apfel took part in several design restoration projects, including work at the White House for nine presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton. Through their business, the couple began traveling all over the world where she began buying pieces of non-Western, artisanal clothes. She wore these clothes to clients' high-society parties. In 2005, The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York premiered an exhibition about Iris Apfel's style entitled Rara Avis (Rare Bird): The Irreverent Iris Apfel.
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Sonia Delauney- Terk (and Robert)

Sonia Delauney- Terk (and Robert) / Sonia Delaunay (November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) was a Ukrainian-born French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris and, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor. Her work in modern design included the concepts of geometric abstraction, the integration of furniture, fabrics, wall coverings, and clothing. Wiki

Josef Hoffman / Josef Hoffmann, (born December 15, 1870, Pirnitz—died May 7, 1956, Vienna, Austria), German architect whose work was important in the early development of modern architecture in Europe. Hoffman studied under Otto Wagner in Vienna and in 1899 joined in the founding of the Vienna Sezession, which, although influenced by the Art Nouveau movement, was more modernist than Wagner’s approach. Beginning in 1899 he taught at the School of Applied Arts, Vienna, and participated (1903) in the establishment of the Vienna Workshop, a centre for arts and crafts, which he directed for some 30 years. Hoffmann’s Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1903; Purkersdorf, Austria) was an important early work, and his Stoclet House (1905) in Brussels is considered his masterpiece. The exterior of that opulent structure achieved a monumental elegance not often associated with design based on straight lines and white squares and rectangles.

Koloman Moser / Koloman Moser (German: 30 March 1868 – 18 October 1918) was an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art and one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte. Moser designed a wide array of art works, including books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes; fashion; stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, and furniture.

Dorothy Draper / The instant I stepped into The Greenbrier in 1990 I was bowled over by the Dorothy Draper's sense of design and color. Draper (November 22, 1889 – March 11, 1969) was an American interior decorator. Stylistically very anti-minimalist, she would use bright, exuberant colors and large prints that would encompass whole walls. She incorporated black and white tiles, rococo scrollwork, and baroque plasterwork. Draper's great-grandfather, Oliver Wolcott, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Drapers's cousin, Sister Parish would also become a major interior designer of the 20th century. Educated primarily at home by a governess and tutor, Draper spent two years at the Brearley School in New York City. The family led a privileged life with yearly trips to Europe and summered in Newport, RI. Dorothy married Dr. George Draper in 1912 and continued to live in glamour, she redecorated her homes in such style that other high society friends began to do the same for their homes. Her husband was the personal doctor to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt after he was diagnosed with polio. Eleanor Roosevelt and Dorothy were cousins and good friends growing up, so the relationship between the two families was already in existence.

Elsie de Wolfe / Elsie de Wolfe, also known as Lady Mendl, born in NYC (December 20, 1859 – July 12, 1950) was an American actress, interior decorator, nominal author of the influential 1913 book The House in Good Taste,and a prominent figure in New York, Paris, and London society. According to The New Yorker, "Interior design as a profession was invented by Elsie de Wolfe," although the praise is not strictly true. De Wolfe was certainly the most famous name in the field until the 1930s, but the profession of interior decorator/designer was recognized as a promising one as early as 1900, five years before she received her first official commission. She was the first designer to bring faux finishes into decorating in the US incorporating real and painted treillage

Beams and Coffers

Beams and Coffers

Alhambra de Granada, Córdoba, Seville ~ Spain

Alhambra de Granada, Córdoba, Seville ~ Spain

Archibald Knox / Archibald Knox (9 April 1864 - 22 February 1933), was a Manx designer of Scottish descent. He is best known as being Liberty's primary designer at the height of their success and influence upon UK and International design (to the extent that in Italy, Art Nouveau was known as Stile Liberty). Knox's pioneering and prolific work bridged the Arts and Crafts Movement, Celtic Revival, Art Nouveau, and Modernism

Sculpture ~ with Bernini, Canova, Thorvaldsen & more

Sculpture ~ with Bernini, Canova, Thorvaldsen & more

Michelangelo Buonarotti Simoni (Il Divino) 1475-1564

Michelangelo Buonarotti Simoni (Il Divino) 1475-1564 / an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Considered to be the greatest living artist during his lifetime, he has since been described as one of the greatest artists of all time.

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Maps and Directions

Maps and Directions

Gustav Klimt / Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.

Surrealism ft. Dali, Ernst, Magritte et al

Surrealism ft. Dali, Ernst, Magritte et al / Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.[1] Its aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality".

Christopher Dresser 1834-1904

Christopher Dresser 1834-1904 / Christopher Dresser was born in Glasgow on July 4, 1834. He was a botanist, designer and writer. From 1847-1849, Dresser spent two years at the Government School of Design at Somerset House. He first earned his living as a botanist, while lecturing at the Department of Science and Art and St Mary’s Hospital Schools. He contributed some designs to Owen Jones’s Grammar of Ornament, which was published in 1856. In 1862, Dresser’s first design book, The Art of Decorative Design, was published. In 1876, he visited Japan as an official representative of the British Government. He authored "The Principles of Design" in 1873. Incredibly talented, he designed for over 50 of Britain's manufacturers in metalworks, wallpaper, textiles, pottery, furniture, glass and ceramics; he designed for Tiffany as well. As one of the first independent freelance designers he made objects that had form and function. At the time of his death his busy London workshop employed ten assistants as well as his five daughters!

Vintage Covers, Posters & Postcards

Vintage Covers, Posters & Postcards

Découpage / Cut and Paste ~ Lacca Povera ~ Lacca Contrafatta

Anton Seder (1850-1916)

Anton Seder (1850-1916) / Munich born, he was a follower of the Jugendstil movement. In addition to being a painter, he was a sculptor, decorative painter and architect. He was a specialist in craft drawings and published a number of fabulous designs for gold, silver and other metals.

Gaudi / Antoni Gaudí (1852 – 1926) was an architect from Reus, Catalonia, Spain. He is the best known practitioner of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized and distinctive style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, La Sagrada Família.

Vintage Wallpapers

Vintage Wallpapers

Royal Pavillion - Brighton

Royal Pavillion - Brighton

André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732)

André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732) / Remarkable Cabinet Maker and and Furniture Marquetry Expert

Pugin, Augustus (1812-1852) ~ flamboyant Victorian architect.

Pugin, Augustus (1812-1852) ~ flamboyant Victorian architect. / In addition to the notable buildings he designed, he would design incredible tiles and wallpaper for select clientele. One of its greatest theorists and a forceful proponent of Gothic decoration, Pugin’s influence was felt on a generation of Gothic revivalist architects.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat / Of Haitian and Puerto Rican descent, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) and his art focused on suggestive dichotomies such as wealth v poverty, segregation v integration and inner v outer experience. He through his art attacked power structures and racism and was very political in his criticism of colonialism and class struggle. His best period is attributed to work done between 1981-83.

Hector Guimard / Architect Hector Guimard 1867-1942 is probably the best known representative of the Art Nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Georgian Style / The English Georgian Period spans 1714-1830 when Britain was ruled by the first four monarchs of the House of Hanover - George l, George ll, George lll and George lV. Early Georgian architecture can be identified by its simplicity of form and mathematical proportions.

Josef Frank / Amazing architect turned textile designer 1885-1967. Originally from Austria he adopted Swedish citizenship in the latter half of his life. Known for his wonderfully lively, happy designs.

Edwin Landseer Lutyens

Edwin Landseer Lutyens / Sir Edwin Lutyens, in full Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens (born 1869—1944), English architect noted for his versatility and range of invention along traditional lines. He is known especially for his planning of New Delhi and his design of the Viceroy’s House there. He is also celebrated for his collaboration with horticulturist and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll

Gertrude Jekyll / Perhaps the best gardener of all time. 1843-1932. She designed well over 400 gardens all over the world. Her garden designs are studied and emulated to this day.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright / Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 – 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture. This philosophy was best exemplified by the Fallingwater house (1935), which has been called "the best all-time work of American architecture".

Liberty Love / Thinking about this store makes me happy, going there is just delightful.

Chihuly - Master Glass

Chihuly - Master Glass / The staggeringly beautiful things this man does with glass

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter / Gerhard Richter (1932-) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.

Tiffany / Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 – 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewelry, enamels, and metalwork. He was the first Design Director at his family company, Tiffany & Co., founded by his father Charles Lewis Tiffany.

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