One of designer Andrew Howard’s admitted secrets is to select a large-patterned wallpaper or paint a mural and then choose other small-scale fabrics. “I let the story of a bold wallpaper pattern be told one time in a room and not again on the fabrics,” he emphasizes. In this Fairfield County dining room, a muralist painted a scene of blue flora and fauna, while Howard paired it with a blue Holland & Sherry fabric on the chairs.
At a historic sea captain’s cottage in Connecticut, artist Mark S. King of MSK Decorative Art hand painted the 19th-century clipper ship Twilight, which was built on the nearby Mystic River and captained by one of the home’s original owners.
Designer Elena Frampton “knew right away” that she wanted to include a mural in this NYC living room. “I knew I wanted it to be blurry, and I knew that I wanted a neon work layered on top of it,” she said. An ethereal, misty landscape painted by Caroline Lizarraga is paired with James Clar’s Liquid Viscosity.
It took four months for New York-based artist Anne Harris to paint a pair of murals depicting local flora and fauna in this Savannah, Georgia dining room. “The whole Lowcountry palette is soothing,” the homeowner says.
In a mid-19th-century Paris apartment, the living room ceiling boasts an original mural with frothy, Boucher-like skies.
