Decorative Ceramic Tile
Famous Interior Designers…?
Hey guys, i need some help!
I have a project on famous interior designers, however the project itself is to find 6 interiors with a dominant material in each.
For example:
The name of a particular Interior which is made up of mainly decorative glass, and the name of the famous interior designer.
The Materials i can choose 6 from as follows:
- Natural stone
- Stainless steel
- Aluminium
- Natural timber
- Man made timber
- Bricks
- Glass (Toughened)
- Glass (Decorative)
- Plaster (Functional)
- Plaster (Decorative)
- Plastics/Laminate
- Plastics/Acrylic
- Paint (Broad wall)
- Paint (Decorative effects)
- Ceramic tiles
- Vinyl
Im having so much trouble with this project, and any help would be appreciated!
Hope these few ideas can help get you started:
Decorative Glass: The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, designed by Mansart, decorated by Lebrun, 1678.
Decorative Paint: The Louis XV Room at Versailles, by decorative painter Huet, 1678.
Ceramic tiles: Have a look at the University of Mexico library, designed by Juan O’Groman.
Man-made timber: do you mean milled lumber? If so, have a look at some of Frank Lloyd Wright’s interiors. Of course he was an architect, but he was such a snob that he insisted on doing the many of his clients’ interiors as well.
Decorative Glass: why not use Tiffany or Lalique as your models? They were both designers. Or perhaps a master chandelier designer from Waterford?
Toughened Glass: Have a look at Philip Johnson’s house in New Canaan, Connecticut. He was the architect/designer of the glass walls, but he used Mies van der Rohe furnishings.
Good luck on your project!
In looking at the designs of the ancients, it is too common a practice to apply all the external ornaments of the Greeks and Romans to the interior of our own dwellings, without any regard being paid to their primitive uses, or any authority on which to found their present application; and thereby trying to make the interior of a modern drawingroom resemble a temple; and to render the application still more absurd, we find introduced, heavy entablatures and overgrown columns. That the ancients, in the decoration of their dwellings, admitted a moreelegant, lively, and festive style, is seen in the various ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii.It is not unusual to see Gothic ornaments introduced and intermixed with those more properly appertaining to the Elizabethan period; a practice contrary to propriety and reason; and frequently in the same edifice, even in those laying claim to taste, we see the different styles of Gothic, from the early Saxon to the more depraved Henry the Eighth’s, mingled together, and forming an indescribable mass, alike discreditable to the possessor and designer. The same remarks will ceramic tile apply with equal force to the union tile outlet of the pure Greek and Roman,-that of the Cinque Cento; and Gothic specimens of the ill-assorted union are to be found even in Italy.It will be one of the objects of this work to remedy the evil which has rendered those of the present day so defective, by placing before the decorator efficient designs, gathered from authorities. It will also be attempted, by a careful development of the principles of the picturesque as applied to decoration, with respect to form, light, shade^ and colour, to bring a better character and taste into the style of the present day.Efforts will also be made to define the ornaments and attributes of Gothic and Elizabethan decoration, as well as those of the French styles, and to remove the mistaken notion that our forefathers inhabited rooms in which colour and every other principle was superseded by the universal use of oak panelling.The plates will be accompanied with explanatory remarks, containing the origin, utility, and properties of the different ornaments; and will serve to expedite and assist the workman in the execution of the design.THERE are few branches of knowledge which have been more neglected than the origin, character, and adaptation of the different styles of Interior Decoration. This is the more remarkable when we consider the science, research, and practical experience that have been brought to bear on the different arts and sciences, at the present day.It will, therefore, be our object, in the following pages, not only to give the practical information necessary to the execution of the accompanying designs, but also to investigate the rise, progress, and decline of the various styles of decoration, as used by the ceramic wall tile architects of the present period,-such as the Greek, Roman, Arabesque, Pompeian, Gothic, Cinque Cento. Francois Premier, Elizabethan, and the more modern French. In doing this, great care will be taken to divest the work of any bias to one particular style, to the disparagement of the rest, but to lay before the profession and the public such useful knowledge tile for kitchen as will enable every one to distinguish between the beautiful and the imperfect.If we turn to the pages of antiquity.