Glade: An Enchanted Forest

A vintage card was the inspiration; 

paint and découpage were the media used to carry it out. 

Welcome to Glade, a fun project recently completed by one of my favorite designers,

Carolyn Quartermaine, and her oft partner, Belgian artist Didier Mahieu.

The Glade is a tucked-away bar inside of London's West End restaurant and gallery, Sketch.They  created a dreamy landscape of a fairytale forest, all inspired from a scene found on an early 20th century communion card, handed down to Mahieu by his grandmother.

 

They had only one week to perform their magic, so with a dozen artists and designers wielding their scalpels, they set about their transformation. After having enlarged and reversed the design, they printed it onto hundreds of meters of paper. Then they painted the walls with vast patchwork swathes of blue, intermingled with flashes of color, against which the cut-out pieces were pasted.
Trompe l’oeil shadows of leaves were added as they glued the pieces on, filling the four walls. 

Vintage 1950s rattan furniture pieces from Portofino, Sardinia and
South of France were added, along with many of Quartermaine's screenprinted fabrics. 

Très chic, no?

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(Script) Writing on the Wall

 As the saying goes...

either by actually writing on the wall

 Love this look!

 

or using one of the cool stencils that are available today, script writing is a definite decor possibility. 

Or, how about script on the floor as Maryam, from Peacock Pavilions in Marrakesh, did in her office? 

Carolyn Quartermaine is my original inspiration for using beautiful script writing. She does it like no other!

She also has gorgeous script fabrics if you prefer your walls to remain "clean."

Check Royal Design Studio or The Stencil Library for stencils. For a custom saying, Modello Designs is great to work with.

For further inspiration, visit Trish's Trouvais blog. Trish often shares with us her collection of vintage letters with their exquisite script writing.

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