Regency library part II

 

Dear readers, a few weeks ago I told you about a Lefèvre Interiors library project, completely executed in the English Regency style. If you missed this post, you can read it HERE .

 

Lefèvre Interiors initial design sketch of the Regency styled library.

 

Remember I mentionned that I really needed to visit our client to take some ‘after’ pictures!

A couple of days after posting about this project, I received an email from our client , sending me…yes indeed…’after’ pictures!!! So I realized that my client was also a reader of my blog!!!! I was very surprised and enchanted at the same time!

 

Mahogany library bookcases assembled at our client’s home.

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The following pictures are the ‘after’ pictures I received from our client. 

Notice the British Regency period (1811-1820) elements: mahogany armchairs, double desk and especially the daybed. All this, together with the collection of antiques on the chimney and the skin of leopard on the daybed.testifies to a great classicism.

Beautiful daybed after a design by GEORGE SMITH (1756 – 1826).

 

Together with Thomas Hope (read more about Thomas Hope in my previous post HERE), GEORGE SMITH was a renown designer of the English Regency period. As being an Egyptologist in his earlier career, he was of course an enthusiast for the new Egyptian style. He published his “Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration" in 1808, and four years later he published a further volume, “Collection of Ornamental Design After the Manner of the Antique". George Smith was delighted by Egyptian ornaments and found it a novelty he could not resist using to the full. Later he went on to produce a further major volume  which he proudly called “The Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers Guide” .

Designs from “The Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers Guide” (1826) by George Smith 

 

Bookcase with Egyptian ornaments.

 

A collection of antique pieces on the chimney.

 

Mission accomplished,don’t you think?

 

I am extremely thankful to my client for taking the time to send me these gorgeous pictures!

 

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Regency library part II

  Dear readers, a few weeks ago I told you about a Lefèvre Interiors library project, completely executed in the English Regency style. If you missed this post, you can read it HERE .   Lefèvre Interiors initial design sketch of the Regency styled library.   Remember I mentionned that I really needed to visit our client to take some ‘after’ pictures! A couple of days after posting about this

A Regency styled library

As I told you in my earlier post, I was preparing upcoming meetings with clients these passed days and was browsing into the Lefèvre Interiors realizations file and found these pictures of an earlier library project.

The library is installed in a Brussels mansion and is designed in the British Regency style.

The bookcases are executed in mahogany, that was very popular in the early 19th century Regency style (1811-1820).

 

This was our initial design sketch.

 

I remember me discussing about the Regency style with the home owner (the Regency style was his favorite design style) and we talked a lot about Thomas Hope (1769 -1831),  who was not only a Dutch and British merchant banker, author and philosopher but also an art collector.

Hope was eager to advance public awareness of historical painting and design and to influence design in the grand houses of Regency London. He began sketching furniture, room interiors and costumes.

In 1807 Thomas Hope published sketches of his furniture, in a folio volume, titled ‘Household Furniture and Interior Decoration’  , which had considerable influence and brought about a change in the upholstery and interior decoration of houses. Hope's furniture designs were in the pseudo-classical manner generally called "English Empire". It was sometimes extravagant, and often heavy. It was a  mixture of Egyptian and Roman motifs.

 

Household Furniture and Interior Decoration (cover) Amazon

 

Thomas Hope furniture and interiors

source here

source here 

 

0ur client finally loved this design.

Do you recognize the Egyptian and Roman motifs of Thomas Hope’s Regency design style?

 

I do love the way the wood is stained.

As you can see we are not only installing libraries in oak wood. We are able to work with the most noble types of wood, here at

LEFEVRE INTERIORS  .

 

Next time I visit Brussels, I really have to see my client to take some pictures of this finished library room!

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A Regency styled library

As I told you in my earlier post, I was preparing upcoming meetings with clients these passed days and was browsing into the Lefèvre Interiors realizations file and found these pictures of an earlier library project. The library is installed in a Brussels mansion and is designed in the British Regency style. The bookcases are executed in mahogany, that was very popular in the early 19th century