You want to keep that continuity: the house decorator, so to speak.
1673 1713) produced the Allegorical Still Life (after 1708), of a letter board that seems to be a commentary on the union of 1707, but he made his living as a house decorator, working closely with architects, including William Adam.
One work, for example, consists of a stack of chairs of diminishing size; and a series of paintings uses horizontal strokes made by the paintbrush sets, again in graded sizes, used by house decorators.
PAGE C1 HOME DECORATOR SHOW HOUSE OPENS IN A HIGH-RISE Normally the Kips Bay Decorator Show House to benefit the Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club is staged in a brownstone or town house.
In addition to the entire line of furniture and accessories (including the Mason glass-top desk, $1,350; the carved bamboo painted armchair, $595; and the loft table lamp, $325 ,shown at left), the store will have four in-house decorators providing free design consultations.
The events attract Americana collectors and dealers as well as museum curators, auction house specialists, decorators and bargain hunters.
To supply electricity outside the house, the decorators can leave small gaps in the window to take out the wires and extension lines.
"It was a little bit like when you decorate a house, and the decorator doesn't want you to go in until it's all staged for you," Hoberman said.
Braque's father was a house painter and decorator who made sure that his son learned the artisanal skills of his trade; Picasso's was an academic painter who gave him drawing lessons.
In Montclair, at the Georgian Heights Show House, Philip La Bossiere, a decorator based in Saddle River, N.J., silver-haired and wearing bluejeans and a raincoat-yellow wristwatch, stood in a room of his design beneath an expansive antler chandelier.
* Your research should include visiting showrooms and decorator house shows to get ideas, developing a clipping file of things you like and surfing the Web -- some helpful sites include www.pbs /org/wbgh/thisoldhouse, www.hgtv.com and www.improvenet.com.
