Sunday, June 25, 2006

French Bronze Lighting

Daedalus Fine Art & Decoration is very pleased to announce that we will be offering the exciting bronze lighting of a fine French foundry specializing in exacting replicas of 18th and 19th century wall sconces, hurricane lamps, tole chandeliers and most especially beautiful bouillotte lamps. These quality fixtures will be heirlooms in your family! Offering Louis XVI, Directoire & Empire designs as their specialty, some offerings in Regence and Louis XV are available as well. Only traditional techniques are used; sand casting, lathe and manual molding, hand chiselling, mounting, polishing, hand worked tole shades, all with hand painted finishes. Available in multiple finishes including gilt bronze, silvered bronze, patinated and polished. Please contact us for more information!

Saturday, January 28, 2006

Decorative Painting & Finishes
























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West Hollywood apartment completed in 2004

























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A Los Angeles home located in the Hancock Park, and completed in 2004





















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Handpainted and Parcel Gilt bed with handsewn toile and silk hangings and bedcover, San Francisco, 1999








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An Amsterdam 'Gracht Huis', or Canal House. Built in the middle seventeeth century and renovated as flats in 1998. This apartment consists of two floors, the first and second, above the 'belle etage'. 2000 - 2001.








































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Donald William Francis Larson
2-01 Fiftieth Avenue, No. 2B
Long Island City, New York 11101
Voice 718.383.6242 E-mail: dwflarson@mac.com Cellular: 718.316.5293


Education

Lenore Schwab Fine Arts Studio Nine Years of Private Study
St. John’s Seminary College Philosophy Program One Year of Study
ASU Fine Arts Program One Year of Study
California Culinary Academy Bachelor Degree of Industrial
Science

Employment

Trader Publications, Advertising Layout & Sales 1981 through 1990


Personal Businesses

CAKE
Fine Confections for Your Wedding & Your Personal Chef for Home Entertaining
2360 Pacific Avenue, No. 401
San Francisco, California 90415

Daedalus Fine Arts & Decoration
Specialist Decoration for Fine Classical and Vernacular Interiors
Consultation and Planning, Tromp L’Oeil, Graining, Marbling,
Oil Gilding & Painted Furniture


Special Skills

A Repertoire of painting styles and decorative devices ranging from charming naïve country to very finely detailed classical motifs. Decorative vocabulary includes most European, American and English styles in popular usage from the seventeenth through the middle nineteenth centuries. Specialties include eighteenth century French & Swedish Rococo, Chinoserie & Neoclassicism as well as Directoire and Empire designs. Painted & oil gilded furniture a forte.

Special Achievements

Tiffany & Co., Union Square, San Francisco, California, 1995.
Public display of a hand-painted and gilded Holiday Cake after Tiffany’s china pattern ‘Holiday’. The display ran for three weeks main floor of the store.

Old English Roses Trade Show, Flower Arranging, Walnut Creek California, 1995
Provided a display of five hand painted themed wedding cakes including Chinoserie, Palladian and Eighteenth Century French China Rose Floral styles.

Clientele:

Dr. Timothy Marten & Ms. Mary Heylin
San Francisco, California

Private Client
San Francisco, California

M. en Mevr.. Jan Martin Wilschut-Brink
Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Mr. Mark Issacs-Ward
Los Angeles, California

Mr. Leon Illerbrun & Mr. Larry Manzenitas
Los Angeles, California

Private Client
Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands