Empire Décor: Innate Accuracy
Each era has its own identity in decoration. The decorative arts, and namely painted décors, bring together various specialities: colour, fillets, ornaments, painted scenes, grisailles and textural imitations.
Paintings in trompe l’oeil marble and wood, faces, flowers, always have to be interpreted in light of a certain era, and must be rewritten according to the decorative grammar of that period. To ignore this would be a terrible mistake. We therefore endeavour to go beyond simply copying nature, and strive to complete our realisations according to their period. This imposes the strictest criteria when choosing the hands, supports, techniques and models. For the Empire period, the decoration techniques used for faux marble and wood have a strong graphic character that primes over realism.
