Passion for Beautiful Illustrations
There is much to be said for creating vision. I love to try and do this through conversation and materials and looking for the light in my Client’s eyes. I find (or, I believe I find) that I’m often successful in helping my Clients see the spaces in their mind’s eye, and appreciate the change that is about to come.
However, at the risk of being too literal, we all love to see a vision more fully flushed-out, more revealed in a manifest of sketch, colour and even computer technology.
Here are some of those, who I think are the very best, the masters at this art form - be it a fluid loose watercolour, or a tightly drawn realistic version of the dream.
below; BY MITA CORSINI BLAND. Mita does my colour renderings, and I feel she has just the right balance of dream and realism. She has created her art for the venerable fabric line; Brunschwig & Fils, Designers such as Richard Keith Langham, Miles Redd, and Mario Buatta. She has also worked with magazines such as; Town & Country, Architectural Digest, Veranda among others.
Mita Corsini Bland
Mita Corsini Bland
Below; a great illustrator and artist, James Steinmeyer created some of the most memorable works showing interiors.
James Steinmeyer
Below; Jeremiah Goodman’s work showcases a lush and loose manner that still captures the particular character of the designer’s rooms. To some, including me, he is the Godfather of classic rendering and illustration. His works inspire in so many ways - there is an almost random, quick and loose execution that is at once confident, dreamy and moody. His early career was with Lord and Taylor, drawing fashion, and was instrumental in re-invigorating the trend of illustrations after the advent of photography had eclipsed the world of oil paintings and illustration. The book “Jeremiah": A Romantic Version” was published by powerHouse in 2007
Jeremiah Goodman
Jeremiah Goodman
Below; Andrea Prandini is considered by many to be a consummate illustrator of fine interiors, restaurants and yachts. Graduated at Brera Academy of Art in Milan, Andrea trained his illustrative skills at Milan ‘Teatro alla Scala’. It’s in this prestigious opera house that he develops his artistic talent, involved in the design and drawing for opera settings. He settled in Paris in 2006, he works since then on prestigious projects for luxury commercial brands, private residences and yachts commissioned by national and international clients. His natural talent for hand-drawing perfectly matches today with the virtual and technology. Starting from the inception of the project, passing through 3D computer rendering and project planning, he arrives to completing it by hand to create some of the most realistic rooms without the rigid effects of computer modeling.
Andrea Prandini
Andrea Prandini
Andrea Prandini
Andrea Prandini
Below; “View of the Guard’s Hall in the Old Louvre. This is old-school, created by the team of Pierre Fontaine and Fontaine Charles Percier, the legendary French architects responsible for developing the influential neoclassical Empire, or Directoire, style of design. The team were prolific during the period of 1798 - 1812, and “they were incredibly influential over a period of relatively constant warfare, so much so that they changed tastes on both sides of political oppositions,” says Columbia University Professor Barry Bergdoll. Percier was noted for (among other things) his work such as sketches for the arc du Carrousel, the interior designs for Josephine Bonaparte’s rooms at the Tuileries palace.
Pierre Charles; Fontaine Percier