Resume

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