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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 [...]

Empire Decorating

Period Empire Decorating – Picture Credit Charles Spada

This lovely picture by Charles Spada shows the beauty of laying with white. Here you see pecan stained hardwood floors, which coordinate perfectly with the ornate gilt picture frames with white mountings. You see a simple bench with animal print upholstery fabric which nicely brings in an [...]

Empire and Classical Decorating Architectural Model Sculptures

A stunning picture was posted on Greet’s Belgain Pearl Blog of an empire desk with coordinating empire chairs. Below in the picture you can see how lovely empire desks are. This particular desk was accented with gilt laurel ormolu like most empire desks are. Both the desk and the coordinating chairs [...]

A Profile of Classical Expert Melanie Kershner - Owner of Beaux-Artes

I stumbled across Classical Addiction, a blog which talks about the decadence of classical architecture and interior design, and I found myself pleasantly surprised, so I saved a link to it on my desktop for my one day off. Like a new book that you flip though quickly and find that ALL of it’s contents are interesting, you hide it away for a [...]

Empire Egyptian Curule X Frame Chairs

The Curule chair came about in Etruria (referred to in Greek texts as Tyrrhenia , now known as Tuscany) and was found on surviving Etruscan monuments to identify magistrates. Much earlier stools that were supported on a cross-frame are known from the New Kingdom of Egypt. Curule chairs were designed for the officials of the [...]

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