tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51553485826337414662024-03-14T00:08:16.596-04:00Zoë DesignZoë Design ~ Murals, Custom Wallpapers and Decorative Finishes.Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-22256988622614340992019-04-28T17:25:00.001-04:002019-04-28T17:25:36.434-04:00How to get through the "Brambles", an illustrative wallpaper.<br />
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We have just returned from a week in Charleston during which we met with Becky LaRoche, the showroom manager at <a href="https://zoe-design.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4eb03c2eb79388aee9326bfcf&id=bfaa826917&e=55ba345d15" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Fritz Porter</a>.
In addition to southern charm and history, Charleston has our favorite
showroom & the best people. I showed Becky a new pattern I had been
working on containing some birds, painted by Lena, flying through Gorse
bushes.</div>
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Becky
immediately saw the potential that was right in front of me. She said,
"remove the birds and you have a playfully whimsical pattern." Once we
returned to the studio, I worked on the pattern, removing the birds and
rotating it 90°. The result was a vast improvement. Sometimes it just
takes a fresh eye.</div>
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Pattern completed, What is left but color variations and samples!
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">We were recently contacted by a project designer at <a href="http://www.champalimauddesign.com/"><span class="s2">Champalimaud</span></a>, an interior design firm in New York. They were seeking a wall covering with the color and look of</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-size: small;"> verdigris, for a hospitality project. Of the samples requested, one had the style but did not have the blue / green color.</span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">No problem. I adjusted the color to reflect a copper oxidation and then a brass or bronze patina finish.</span></span></div>
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<br />Doug at Zoe Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472081757344653048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-71552826532655447352018-10-24T18:10:00.000-04:002018-10-24T18:10:00.385-04:00Water Lilies Mural Paper
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<span class="s1">Zoë Design’s <a href="http://gigapan.com/gigapans/207124"><span class="s3">Water Lilies</span></a> mural takes on a life of it’s own, emphasizing almost brash juxtapositions. It is, at times, bright and dynamic and at others calm and deep. Their aim was to wed the classical elegance of John and Sally’s design with the room’s equally important contemporary flair.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The Nymphéas [Water Lilies] cycle occupied Claude Monet for three decades, from the late 1890s until his death in 1926. He referred to this cycle as his "great decoration”, taking it’s final form in the l’Orangerie: a panoramic frieze laid out almost seamlessly enveloping the viewer. Two types of composition were defined by Monet. While the first includes the edge of the pond and its dense vegetation, Lena and Brooke chose to concentrate on the second, which plays on emptiness and includes only the surface of the water with flowers and reflections interspersed.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Water Lilies mural paper is available from select showrooms or directly from Zoë Design. Repeat: 261.5”W. at 114”H. (Customizable to your specifications). Zoë Design is a Boston based, husband and wife team of artists producing murals, wallpapers and decorative finishes, since 1984, for projects in UK, Jamaica, Tokyo, Sweden, France and all over the US. When you call us, you are speaking directly with the artist who can bring your ideas to life.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Water Lilies Mural - <a href="http://www.zoe-design.com/about-us/lena-fransioli/?section=wallpaper"><span class="s3">Lena Fransioli</span></a> & <a href="http://www.zoe-design.com/about-us/brooke-sheldon/?section=wallpaper"><span class="s3">Brooke Sheldon</span></a></span></div>
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<br />Doug at Zoe Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472081757344653048noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-83894080654421158962018-10-23T10:46:00.000-04:002018-10-23T10:46:56.255-04:00Italian Renaissance Mural<a href="https://www.areen.com/">Areen Design</a>, in London, recently asked for a mural paper leaning toward the Italian Renaissance period and it made me think of a mural we did in 2009. Since a photo is worth more than my words, here is the whole story.<br />
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These murals represent almost two months of work for 5 people. The air, sky, angels, putti and landscape are anchored by the trompe l'oeil fabric, flute, sheet music and faux marble. The artists involved were <a href="http://www.zoe-design.com/about-us/lena-fransioli/?section=murals">Lena Fransioli</a>, <a href="http://www.zoe-design.com/about-us/brooke-sheldon/?section=murals">Brooke Sheldon</a>, <a href="http://www.zoe-design.com/about-us/doug-garrabrants/?section=murals">Doug Garrabrants</a>, <a href="http://nataliegardnerartist.com/">Natalie Gardner</a> and <a href="http://www.miroartdesign.com/">Kasia Mirowska</a>.</div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size: small;">Then I started experimenting with the "Crumpled Paper" pattern as an overlay, creating the look without the crossing light. We are thrilled with the result and hope you are as enthusiastic too. Samples are available through our showrooms or directly from us.</span></span></div>
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We now have roughly 20' x 30' of sky available for your walls or ceiling in archival mural paper. I can also add it as a "ground" behind our Chinoiserie (MU2011).</div>
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I am talking about a cool site called GigaPan which hosts some
exceedingly beautiful photographic work of enormous proportion. The
images on this site create an immersive, high-resolution panoramic
experience. You can find an image and zoom in, from a photo of the
mountains to a man’s face as he stands across the valley. I am using
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have several new additions to our line of scenic mural papers and I
have placed the gigapixel images at the gigapan website. Today I will
give you a quick lesson on navigating the site to get the most from the
imagery. After you have seen our murals, I know you will enjoy looking
around the site at the work of other talented artists. You can search by
name, content or category.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;">Google “<a href="https://zoe-design.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4eb03c2eb79388aee9326bfcf&id=c4fe8948fe&e=55ba345d15" style="word-wrap: break-word;">garrabrants gigapan</a>”
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On the right, you will see your image navigation, zoom in and out, full
screen and zoom all the way out. I like to make it full screen,
preferably on a large monitor. On the bottom left are “snapshots”, this
is a good place to start, or just double click or use the + -
navigation tools to find your own favorite spot to zoom in to. If you
want to go back and pick a different image, click on my name (top left) .
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Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-31520819268947766732018-01-29T16:27:00.001-05:002018-01-29T23:32:22.621-05:00Landscape Murals for RBW<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s1">Here are the problems & how I solved them. First, they painted a blue sky background color, but only to the upper part of the canvas. Not only is there a line across the image where the blue ends, but it contaminated the color of the upper part of the painting because it bleeds through the thin paint. The tree trunks transitioning from white to blue is an issue too.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">We are flying out to Sweden today to visit Zoë and, yahoo, Danielle is meeting us there. A mini family reunion in a beautiful place. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">We are wrapping up last minute work, Lena is painting a vent to disappear into the fancy wallpaper it is set in and I am shipping a mural paper I finished yesterday. Lena is standing in front of 4 of the 8 panels going in a 20 year old's bedroom in Manhattan. They are tacked to the studio wall to let them dry before shipping.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Thank you Jos for originally commissioning the girls to paint this beautiful mural.</span></span></div>
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Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-38674553326745554902017-02-25T11:41:00.000-05:002017-02-25T11:41:19.250-05:00Making New Portfolios<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">In February 2017 </span><a href="http://www.zoe-design.com/" target="_blank">Zoë Design</a> and <a href="https://www.dessinfournir.com/?o=www.dessinfournir.com#/" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;" target="_blank">Dessin Fornir</a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> formed a partnership for representation of our Wall Coverings, in their New York, Chicago and Los Angeles showrooms. Since then, I have spent my spare time making new portfolios for all our showroom reps to carry on the road. My first set of books is almost ready and I wanted to share what I have learned.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">The book was getting so heavy and thick, we decided to split the work into three books. Mural Papers, Patterned Wallpapers and Metallic Wall Coverings. The metallics can be transported in an architect's plan case because they relax fairly quickly (see above). This means, with our 5 showrooms, I need to make twelve portfolios! One down, almost. By the end of the month, I should be a master at the art of book binding.</span></div>
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Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-55270011301185672952016-12-07T16:58:00.000-05:002016-12-07T16:58:14.700-05:00Mural for the Waldorf School at Moraine Farm<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="font-kerning: none;">Our daughter Zoë attended the Beverly <a href="http://waldorfmoraine.org/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Waldorf School</span></a> for years. Since then, the school has moved their campus to a larger and better facility at Moraine Farm in Beverly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Our friend and client Jonathan Poore of <a href="http://www.poore-co.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Poore & Co.</span></a> assisted the Waldorf School with campus planning and interior design at the new facility. The concept for the lobby / hallway, depicting shadows cast from children at different life stages in a color wash was a story telling exercise meant to convey the “Developmental Journey” from early childhood to eighth grade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We love working with Jonathan because of his impeccable taste, keen sense of conceptual design and especially color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">At our cottage in Maine, we have continued the biophilic theme by installing one of our mural papers in a bedroom. It is a scenic mural originally painted by Lena in Lincolnshire, UK, depicting the fresco "Villa of Livia" (Circa. 30-20 BCE) housed at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We flew to UK and I photographed the painting in detail, stitching together many hundred photos into the final wallpaper mural measuring 28’ 6” long and repeating from the right edge onto the left. The entire mural is delivered on 15 - 24” drops. </span><br />
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While we were installing the mural in the bedroom we had the fabulous people of <a href="http://www.stonesurface.net/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Stone Surface Granite & Marble</span></a>, Bridgton, ME, installing new counter tops in the bathroom and kitchen. Most of the stone was a gift from our generous friend and client Lisa Cunningham of <a href="http://www.warnercunningham.com/"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Warner - Cunningham</span></a> (Chestnut Hill, MA). It was removed from a remodel project in Brookline, MA. Every time either Lena or I wash a dish, we relish our new farm sink.<br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Also new at our <a href="http://www.zoe-design.com/sunset_cottage.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Crystal Lake</span></a> getaway is another wallpaper installation where we bring the outdoors - in. It started in the driveway a few years ago. While raking one fall day, I looked down and noticed that the worms had created a fine tracery pattern on most of the leaves. I got a few old books and started gathering and placing them between the pages to flatten and dry. Months later I took them out of the books and photographed them, turning them into a variety of leaf patterns. The color of the leaves is perfect with the pine paneling in the house and the slight opposing color in the background really brings out the warm hue. It seems quite fitting that the wallpaper was created, using leaves collected just outside the door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And for the kids bedroom we are installing “<a href="http://zoe-design.blogspot.com/2015/05/day-151-wallpaper-day-cherry-blossom.html"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Cherry Blossom</span></a>”. I envisioned the blossoms floating down with a beautiful sky background but Lena thinks the small, cut up nature of the room requires something less complicated and requested a simple greenish blue ground. I was inspired to create the Cherry Blossom pattern during a client meeting, in a Washington, D.C. back yard during the height of “cherry blossom season”. I was enchanted by petals floating down into our portfolio. We were brushing out dried flowers for months.</span></div>
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<br />Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-2497952838624611972016-07-12T10:55:00.002-04:002016-07-12T11:08:15.202-04:00Bringing Nature Inside<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some of you may have seen this in our "news letter", forgive if I am repetitive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">We have owned a small lake side cottage in Maine for about 15 years and every year we add little improvements. Sometimes it is the necessary roof or septic system and others we get to use our design skills to improve the looks and feel of the place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Last year we did the roof and we refreshed the bathroom with a river stone floor and Marmorino walls. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">This year we have continued the biophilic theme by installing one of our mural papers in a bedroom. It is a scenic mural originally painted by Lena in Lincolnshire, UK depicting the fresco "Villa of Livia" (Circa. 30-20 BCE) housed at the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy. If you would like to see an 18 second virtual tour of the room,</span> on Youtube, <a href="https://youtu.be/0DDzJnI8aWE" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">click here</span></a><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">.</span><br />
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The original mural, painted in Lincolnshire, UK, looks like this:<br />
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Villa Livia Fresco - <span style="font-family: "lucida grande"; font-size: 12px;">Repeat : 28' 6" W. x 8' H. </span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande"; font-size: 12px;">Delivered on 15 - 24” rolls.</span></div>
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As time permits, we will be adding wallpapers to the other rooms in the house. All will have the “natural world” theme. We are thinking of what we call “Passion Flower” for the master bedroom. This paper is re-created from a fragment of antique wallpaper.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">In the kid’s bedroom we can’t decide between the “Cherry Blossom” and “Lilly Panels”. If you have a strong opinion please leave a comment or reply with your choice.</span><span style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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Lilly French Panels (Detail of Panel #3) - Hand painted by Lena Fransioli and Brooke Sheldon, with faux molding and filigree surround.</div>
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Shagreen (NA1409) - <span style="font-family: "lucida grande";">Created from the leather hide of a shark.</span> Repeat - 23” W x 23” H. <span style="font-family: "lucida grande";">Delivered on 24” roll.</span></div>
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Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-16404598442030321322016-02-11T14:07:00.000-05:002016-02-11T14:07:43.616-05:00Sunny Tabriz Grass Cloth<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal;">
<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I have spent the last few days printing a seamless grass cloth I created for Cynthia First of Now Interiors and <a href="http://www.firstrugs.com/" target="_blank">First Oriental Rugs</a>. She wanted ultimate control of the color of the grass cloth and neither of us like the seams that show and sometimes fray with most grass cloth wall coverings. By creating a digital version I was able to address both concerns. After installing our “Sunny Tabriz Grass Cloth” there will be no visible seams and with the colors of her accessories, I was able to nail the color, contrast & saturation.</span></div>
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Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-30975510914789321832016-01-25T13:09:00.000-05:002016-01-25T13:09:40.703-05:00Chinoiserie Wallpaper - Painted FloorI have just returned from photographing a project we did at the end of last year for the wonderful team at <a href="http://wilsonkelseydesign.com/" target="_blank">Wilson Kelsey Design</a>. Our small part was to paint the floor and design a wallpaper to fit the space from Lena's hand painted Chinoiserie (MU2011) at a small horse farm in Ipswich, MA. I will let the photos speak for themselves.<br />
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Sally Wilson, the interior designer, came out to help me with the styling of the photos and what a great help she was. I love the fine elements, like a second molding on the ceiling, just inside of the crown molding. Here are some of the other details adding to the design and style.</div>
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And finally, the powder room, adjacent to our mural, Sally's French leaning makes this room sing.</div>
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Near the end of 2015 our client asked us to repaint it exactly the same. The floor was damaged by a contractor and she wanted it ready for traffic before her "Post Christmas Party" on Jan. 9, 2016.</div>
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The party was a smashing success - excellent food and drink provided by <a href="http://missjeanies.com/" target="_blank">Jeanie Gruber</a>. Here is a time lapse movie featuring our hand painted floor, created during the festivities.</div>
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For those interested in the process, I thought I would give you a "How To" on marbleizing. We started with a white floor and first had to map out the grid making sure it lines up with the pre existing floor mural in the dining room as well as the walls in the foyer. For the layout we use lasers and for this white marble tile pattern, we drew a thin pencil line at each intersection to represent the grout. Once the grid is mapped out, Lena and Kasia added the white / gray marbling. For this they use tinted glaze, rags, feathers, fan brushes, stipplers and Badger hair softeners. First they paint the glaze on in drifts, rag it off, add veins with the feather and fan brush, blend with the stippler and finally soften with light sweeps of the Badger Brush.<br />
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When they were dry we brought in Bob Tucker of <a href="http://www.peabodyfloorsupply.com/" target="_blank">Peabody Floors</a>. We needed a non yellowing, water based, hard, quick dry product. To achieve this Bob suggested a first coat of VerMeister Aqua Tenax two component sealer followed by a coat of VerMeister Idro two-component polyurethane NMP-free waterborne, non-yellowing finish. As you can see, the end result was stunning and what you can't see is it is very hard.</div>
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Thank you to all who were involved with this project and if you have any questions I did not answer above, please contact me for more. We have no secrets.</div>
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I used the lamp shade as a guide to create this pattern, which we can print in any foreground and background colors and any pattern size. My favorite look is when I made the pattern and background in opposing colors and then adjusted the value to be almost the same.</div>
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A few days after creating the tea paper pattern above, Honey contacted me with a new project. The same clients had a large scale, similar pattern on a blue paper with gold wash in the house they are leaving in Wellesley, MA. This paper was dear to them and I was tasked with re-creating it for their new dwelling. </div>
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The challenge in reproducing this wallpaper is the gold. I can reproduce gold color but cannot print metallic. We had two choices, 1) make the blue paper, wash it with metallic gold and then block print the pattern, as the original was done. Or, 2) reproduce it photographically and match the color in a digital print after which Lena can wash a metallic over the gold. The drawback to the second method is the metallic washes over the pattern, not behind it. It was decided to go with the faster and less expensive method of digital reproduction. I chose to print on Etching Ragg to create a completely matte look, like the original. It ended up taking an hour to photograph the original paper, 7 hours to stitch and make a beautiful repeat and another 4 hours to get the color exactly right in the output.</div>
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Samples of some of the styles and substrates (Pictured here - Blue / gold background on Etching Ragg, several sizes of repeat on mural pro and a swatch printed on metallic canvas)</div>
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Thanks for reading, I will post again when I perfect the block printed on silver leaf paper version, and also when the install is done and I can post an after photo.</div>
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Over Christmas many of you have lamented my discontinuing the “Wallpaper-a-Day” posts. Thank you for your kind words & admiration. If you want to “like” “share” and “repost” these missives it will be invaluable in spreading the word about our work.</div>
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Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-459156310282358502015-11-30T22:07:00.001-05:002015-11-30T22:07:38.693-05:00East of Eden - A sad sagaI have posted about this mural before because I think the final result is stunning. I am posting again to say we are pulling it from our line! You need a little history to understand it's significance.<br />
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We were called in by a client to stabilize and enhance a crumbling and unidentified old wallpaper in Dedham, MA.<br />
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The stabilization was done to the crumbling and pealing paper with wallpaper paste and a hypodermic needle and then Gardz to bind the powdering old paper and wall.<br />
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Because I thought the paper was out of production, and the girls had painted it so beautifully, I photographed it in detail and turned it into wallpaper and since Brooke's husband wanted a mural in their house, I printed it for her living room. She and her family were thrilled.</div>
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Last week, I got an inquiry into the East of Eden paper. This new "potential client" said they had found it in Architectural Digest, March 2012. It turns out it is Zuber's <a class="" href="http://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/brooke-shields-new-york-city-townhouse-slideshow#4" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.17000000178813934px;">“Les Lointains</span></span><span class="" style="background-color: white;"><span class="" style="letter-spacing: 0.17000000178813934px;">”</span></span></a>. It hangs proudly in Brooke Shields' dining room. Sadly, I can not sell this pattern because, though Lena and Brooke painted the colors, the original pattern is not ours to sell. Darn, I really thought it was an "out of print" antique paper & I put in a huge amount of time processing it into something printable and beautiful, if I don't say so myself. Happy holidays all.</div>
Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-23375656500263582562015-11-27T16:40:00.000-05:002015-11-27T16:40:36.535-05:00Thanksgiving Wallpaper InstallFirst, let me apologize for being MIA. I got burned out posting "wallpaper-a-day" and had to stay away for a while.<br />
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Now that you have recovered from eating to much, I have this for you.<br />
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Just before our Thanksgiving guests arrived, I decided to spruce up our powder room with a very textural wallpaper pattern "<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Textile" (TE2758)</span>. This pattern is inspired by 5th century Persian textiles. For this install, I chose to print on a non-woven substrate, for a fabric like feel, at 68% which gave me a 7.75" W. x 21.5" H. repeat. First, I hung lining paper to cover hair line cracks in this old house and add structure for a better end result.<br />
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Happy holidays to all.Zoë Designhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05790997164129167301noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5155348582633741466.post-47087822952433683512015-08-28T19:49:00.003-04:002016-01-14T12:14:21.265-05:00Sweet CornIt is summer and I thought I would give you a taste of New England, starting with Sweet Corn. This is funny...<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Fresh garden tomatoes are one of the great things about summer. We planted some heirloom seeds sent by a friend in Santa Barbara called Purple Cherokee and Golden Globe cherry tomatoes, for which I built a 10 foot scaffold. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> We have so many we are making</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> caprese, and every other tomato dish we can think of, making </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">sauce & </span>freezing it<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> We have been harvesting our way up the scaffold and soon we will be picking tomatoes from over our heads.</span></div>
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We hope you are all having a wonderful last few weeks of summer. </div>
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