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Rich Empire Looks- Home Beautiful Magazine May 2012

House Beautiful featured a dynamic home based around rich French design. The house belongs to Annie Brahler whom is an obvious collector of fine French furniture. She shares a love like most of us for French furnishings, and it is so exciting to see what another collector has [...]

Dark Color Schemes In Classical Interiors

Classical Design -Photographer Claude Smekens

Belgian Pearls blog posted some amazing pictures of photographer  Claude
Smekens work.  His wife Magda Desmet, who is a stylist and decorator work for several renowned Belgian interior design magazines. Look at the deep colors in this classical interior.  Dark gray walls and stone flooring make rich gilt furniture and accessories stand [...]

How To Achieve A Venetian Plaster Finish

Empire Furniture Classical Interiors – Venetian Plaster Designer Brian McCarthy

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A detail of the Dining Room of Brian J. McCarthy showing a Georges Jacob chair against a Venetian plaster wall- Picture Featured on The Devoted Classicist Blog Originally Seen in the January-February, 2012 issue of VERANDA magazine.

Venetian plaster is a plastering technique which [...]

Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti's Empire Decorated Home

Eva Jeanbart-Lorenzotti's Empire Decorated Home

Eva Jeanbart Lorenzotti founder of Vivre.com travels the world in search of artists that create beautiful home furnishings, clothing, jewelry, and gift items.  Native of Switzerland, Lorenzotti set out 17 years ago for America, and since she has built a mini-empire, generating about $50 million a year by retailing luxury [...]

Polished Macassar Ebony Wood

Empire Furniture Ideas- Demilune Console Table with Macassar Ebony and Ivory Banding

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Macassar Ebony Wood

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Empire Furniture & Decorating Ideas Black Marble Floors Polished Wood

Black Ebony is an exotic species probably best known in [...]

Neoclassical Architecture

Astor Courts, a 15,000 square foot estate in Rhinebeck, NY

Astor Courts, a 15,000 square foot estate in Rhinebeck, NY

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Astor Courts, a 15,000 square foot estate in Rhinebeck, NY

Astor Courts, a 15,000 square foot estate in Rhinebeck, NY with very classical architectural lines.  Some of the pictures remind me of Robert [...]