MASTER SUITE HALLWAY
Bob Allen delivered – and then some – when the homeowner returned from an estate sale with a faded pecan secretary and asked, “Can you make something wonderful out of this?” A photo of a decorative 19thcentury French buffet was offered as inspiration. “This is jewelry. Serious jewelry,” Netley says of the lacquered and gilded "wow" piece in the hallway leading to the master suite. “I can do chinoiserie in my sleep now,” the artist quips. For the custom niche, Andy Moore gave the walls a Venetian plaster finish that includes a base coat and four layers of glaze.
30 MAY/JUNE 2014