Category Archives: Interior Illustrations

Winter Gardens

Posted January 29, 2016. Filed in Axel Vervoordt, Belgian-Dutch Style, Belle Époque, Bunny Williams, Carolyne Roehm, Chateaux, Elsie de Wolfe, Garden R ooms, Gilded Age, Haynes Roberts, Henri Samuel, Interior Illustrations, Jacques Grange, Jean-Louis Deniot, Jeffrey Bilhuber, Lorenzo Castillo, Madeleine Castaing, Mario Buatta, Mark Hampton, Michael S. Smith, Miles Redd, Parish-Hadley, Pierre Bergé, Renzo Mongiardino, Richard Keith Langham, Robert Shapiro, Studio Peregalli, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent

L’esprit du jardin d’hiver is in the air, a quest for a life-affirming sanctuary in colder climes. Russian royalty dedicated palaces to Winter, as with the sixteen-hundred room Winter Palace of the Romanov’s in St. Petersberg. Emperor Nikolai I decreed that Russian artist Eduard Gau create watercolor renderings of the Winter Palace’s interior, the Russian Empire’s […]

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A Venetian Vision

Posted April 22, 2015. Filed in Eclectic Tradition, Interior Illustrations, Palazzi, Venetian Style

The last remaining vestige of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s Venetian vision for the music room at her Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts, palazzo-style mansion is this oil painting by Martin Mower painted in the late 1890’s. Destroyed at the turn-of-the-20th-century, Mower’s romantic paean to Gardner’s Venetian decorative tradition paints a dreamlike world where 18t-century carved gilt chairs […]

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