Collaboration with Geovin on New Fumo Collection

Things have been super busy in my camp with a host of exciting client projects and new collaborations. One such project I want to share was working with Geovin, a Canadian family-run furniture company celebrating its 20th anniversary, to help create marketing images for their brand new collection.

I enjoy working with Geovin on customizing pieces from their collections for clients. They’re an easy and accommodating team to work with that provides great craftsmanship and value, and I also love that they have an environmental conscience too. They employ low emission practices in their manufacturing and use reconstituted wood veneers made from certfied sustatinable forests in their products.

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A Closer Look at the Dining Room Wallpaper

My striking dining room owes its wow-factor to the stunning hand painted Chinese wallpaper and gold-leafed ceiling that envelopes visitors with its jewel box effect.

I’ve always been a hard core fan of Chinoiserie design and have admired the handiwork of companies like Gracie and De Gournay, but my passion for this type of wallpaper was cemented when I visited Rough Point, the estate of Doris Duke in Newport. Her music room had antique panels of Chinese wallpaper she had purchased at auction and it left such a magnificent and regal impression on me. (you can read about it in this blog post I wrote almost 3 years ago- you can’t say I’m not consistent!)

With my enduring passion for this type of wallpaper, I was very happy to stumble upon the work of Griffin and Wong a couple of years ago, whose sales operations is based right here in Canada in Vancouver. The design department of Style At Home was lucky enough to view a presentation from Douglas Bray and I fell even more in love with how the delicate illustrations shimmered right off the silky paper.

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