Showing posts with label faux bois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label faux bois. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Work Space Wednesday II

Office / gallery/ studio = a wonderful workspace! Laptop and printers blend artfully with paintings, sculptures and antiques. Love the faux bois vase in the foreground holding a bevy of blueprints and the inspiration board with the Eiffel images, tre' chic! Gathered fabric in glass cabinets keep office necessities neatly out of site, a useful idea for any space..
Image: Brayton Homestead Interiors (taken at gallery)

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Nature’s Slumber

Lay your head down on the soft down pillow, look up through the trees and peak at the bird’s’ nest. No, you are not camping. The ultimate in Faux Bois, an old technique of creating wood grain in different mediums, is this incredible bed by Shawn Lovell! As if you are laying under the stars, the frame of metal tree trunks with high reaching limbs come together at the top like a canopy, punctuated by a bird’s nets at the very top. Oh, sweet dreams….
Image: Shawn Lovell

Monday, April 27, 2009

Nature Imitated

Faux bois is an old paint technique where wood grain is imitated on a variety of surfaces, in these examples plaster and metal. I am crazy for Faux Bois! This lovely coat/ hat rack presents faux bois in metal. Imitated wood grain of the tree as the birds resting spot is perfect for spring.
Image: Plumo

Wood Grain on a plaster tree log is a playful twist on nature. This is the work by the awesome artists, somethings hiding in here on Etsy! You must check out there great shop, so original and playful. Two or three of these logs placed in a contemporary fireplace would look sensational.
Image: Somethingshidingthere/Etsy