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SPANISH BEDROOM SUITE

Painted Spanish Armiore over 7 feet high
King Size Bed. Carved and Painted in Spanish Design.
Spanish Dressing Mirror
Night Table
Nine Drawer Chest

Night Table
Galleries
Functional Objects
Furniture as Art
Contemporary
Pine
Boxes
Accents
Carvings
Sculpture
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Innocence Among Us
Celebrating Life
Becoming Form
Cast Paper
I welcome commissions for furniture and design accents for home or office. These works are approached as art or to be part of a private or corporate collection and as such are priced accordingly.

This Spanish bedroom suite reflects my South Western cultural heritage. Mission designs and the organic art period of California in the 1960's and 70's were strong background elements during my artistic and design development. Having Cherokee lineage I was also introduced to a wide range of crafts and designs by way of an immersion in producing native ceremonial objects and regalia throughout my youth.

 

 

Colour and repeating and geometric patterns are common elements to native arts and crafts. The hues and geometry of Spanish designs and even the natural light and textures of common landscapes of Spain and the Southwest lent themselves to a blending with native arts and designs. In fulfilling commissioned work in Canada it is rare that I can focus on a primarily Spanish, South Western or Mission piece, much less an entire grouping.

 

The clients wanted a bedroom suite that drew design colours and elements from their large collection of traditional Spanish furniture. These pieces were in every room of their newly completed, large house. The clients spent a long evening talking about each piece and what was important or stood out for them. There was some common ground and strikingly different reasons for their individual attraction to the Spanish style and various pieces in their collection.

 

 

Every piece of their furniture was photographed and studied. I came back with designs and drawings that were reviewed and altered and refocused in several ways. The night tables had elements of the end tables from the family room. Some of the carvings reflected carving designs that I had be using for several years, while other incorporated patterns reflected the character of the clients' existing pieces.

 

 

With a bedroom the size of many small apartments, each piece could be large. The king sized bed was more than nine feet when the large turned posts were incorporated and the chest of drawers with clothes armoire rose over seven feet tall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the end, the bedroom furniture was not only a reflection of the clients' personalities and likes, but this room's grouping of furniture had the effect of pulling all the thematic furniture of the house into an even more cohesive whole.

In the course of creating with and for others the designer needs relationship and communication skills. In developing a commission deeply personal to the client the designer needs to create trust, query, listen, feedback and request confirmation of what is assumed to be heard. These are common attributes to most good communication and problem solving. The enhancement of communication and listening, likewise enhances the nature of the design and the degree of client satisfaction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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