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| Dean Farris Interior Design, 2016 |
Decisions, decisions...nail head trim, guimpe, welt, tape, fringe, tassels? Above, you can see my Louis XV style fruitwood open armchairs are trimmed in antique bronze finished nail heads- and the pillow has brush fringe, with tassels...passementerie is something very classic, and not used as much as it was in the roaring 1980's...but is still in the vocabulary of a well-trained decorator or designer.
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| Dean Farris Interior Design, 2016 |
Here, in the image above, you can see where Albert Hadley used his signature flat tape, for the edging on this Spanish copy of a Louis XV open armchair, one of the wonderful things I obtained from him when he was wintering in Naples. I mention this detail, since most of the local upholstery shops have no idea about it, and are not really interested in it- they just want to keep adding that dreaded "double welting" which often obscures part of the frame on a nice chair or canapé'.
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| Dean Farris Interior Design, 2016 |
Finally, in this image (above) you can see two slipper chairs with small welting (Leta Austin Foster calls it "blind cord") and one settee with spaced nail head trim. I look forward to sharing more with you soon on this topic- which could be a book unto itself! DF *****
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| DFID, 2016 |
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