Textile Arts, Decorative Painting, Furniture for the Home, Painting & Wallpapering
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Overview
Transform ordinary furniture and everyday objects with strikingly original designs from one of our most exciting and innovative designers. Resonant with brilliant color, the designs are all based on simple motifs - stripes, circles, leaves, and tiger stripes - which can be used to create bold, graphic effects as well as more ornate designs. With the use of templates and step-by-step instructions, Cressida Bell clearly shows how to transfer these to a variety of plain surfaces using only the most basic materials. Projects should appeal to both the homemaker and artist, and include a deck chair with tiger stripes, a dotty lampshade and base, checkered tabletop and jewelry box, decorative plates, and a host of other ideas.Cressida's sources of inspiration are rich and varied, from her Bloomsbury anscestors to Mediterranean ceramics, architectural motifs and mosaics, to ancient fabrics and costumes. All these, plus handpainted decorations on every page, provide a treasury of innovative designs and source material to inspire you to create your own painted designs.
Book Details
Published
September 1, 1996
Publisher
Bulfinch Pr
Pages
127
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780821222676