Arts and Crafts Dining Room a Collaborative Beauty

A San Francisco dining room designed in the Arts and Crafts style by Debey Zito Fine Furniture and Design,  became a wonderful opportunity for collaboration between several members of Artistic License.  

As part of the room's design, a frieze panel of California poppies was hand-carved by Debey's partner, Terry Schmitt. To carve the frieze for the entire room was cost-prohibitive, so ornamental plasterer Lorna Kollmeyer cast them in plaster. 
The new plaster frieze was then painted with a faux bois finish by decorative painter Lynne Rutter to match the furniture-quality paneling that Debey and Terry installed the room, and painted the iridescent poppies using mica powders and pigment.
Terry also sculpted the plaster Eucalyptus leaves which Lynne gilt with 23k gold leaf. 


This project is featured in the Spring 2011 edition of Arts and Crafts Homes magazine,  where you can see more details about this "Collaborative Beauty."