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Some projects

 

Bizzilla ta’ Malta – Maltese Lace – New painted ceiling and six wall sized botanical panels for the newly restored ‘Grand Salon’ of San Anton Palace, Malta’s 17th c. presidential residence
Attard | Malta 2018

 

le Rappel des Oiseaux  ( or “Hidden Birds” ) – Two new painted ceilings on antique floorboards for a 1670’s Herengracht monument, based on late 17th c. bird ceilings  | Amsterdam 2022

 

Eastern Birds – Three new painted ceiling panels for a private apartment in the Carlyle Hotel, Madison Ave. New York. A stylized coffered ceiling like an advent calendar with indigenous Eastern U.S birds – Comissioned by William Cullum / Thomas Jayne Design Studio NYC | 2023

 

Camera Obscura_Lucida – A Dark Enlightened Room – A new fronton in gilded bas-relief over the entrance of “Landfort House”, an 18th c Country estate and museum. An anatomical transparent eye observing “nature” on its left, projecting it upside-down to its right, An image about cognition an observation of “the world” or “the Other”. The external and the internal. | Megchelen NL 2023

 

Studies for a Hortus Conclusus – designs for five new painted rooms in the redecorated “Gate” building of Nyenrode Business University. Setting the two original motto’s on the other gate to this historic castle, in a different light – in collaboration with Leo Wevers & v Luipen Architects | Breukelen 2022
 

J’Accuse – A Conversation Piece – a new variation on the historic “Concert of birds” theme. A painting installed over the monumental fireplace of a 19th c. Neo Renaissance country estate | Bilthoven 2023

 

A Dining Room – Six room sized panels for a monumental 1920’s villa in the South of Amsterdam. A variation on 18th c Chinoiserie wallpapers with superimposed Peonies and painted birds, accompanied by snails, insect-eggs, caterpillars, leaf miners and all sorts of other “plant-predators” taking this idealized genre a bit closer down to earth | Amsterdam 2022

 

A Modernist Menagerie  – Wallpaintings for a monumental 18th. century apartment – Dr. Peter and Tina Harf | Amsterdam

 

Migratory birds in a rococo room  – New painted ceiling for a 1731 period-room with nine surviving Antonie Elliger paintings in the former British Consulate  | Amsterdam 2008

 

Histoire Naturelle – Three paintings for the Entrance hall of an 18th c. Directoire-style canalhouse, once the residence of Napoleons ‘Gouverneur’ to the Netherlands | Amsterdam 2011

 

Other ones Feathers – New painted ceiling and four “overdoor” paintings for a surviving Louis XVI Tea-pavilion, last remaining relic of two demolished 17th c. country estates and a menagerie portrayed by Hondecoeter – Driemond Abcoude | NL 2021

 

Aerial insectivores – Large scale – 65 M² – painted ceiling for Cees Dam Architects and Verwelius Bouwmij. | NL

 

Gardensnails – Painted ceiling on antique floorboards inserted between the beams of an 18th century period room  | Abcoude 2008

 

Midden – Series of antique tables with build in glass tops, displaying centuries of left-overs from a 17th c dining table, Broken  pieces of delftware, porcelain, bones and  oysters, Like a smashed golden age still life, all found in the soil during restoration of a country mansion we were involved in. | Amsterdam / Abcoude 2015

 

Interior design & decoration for ‘Ethnic-Chic Home Couture” Shop | Amsterdam 2006

 

Australia – the Netherlands 1606 – 2006 design for a commemorative 5 Euro coin | Ministry of Finance – the Hague

 

Histoire Naturelle IV & V – two paintings for the entrance of an 18th century urban palazzo on the Amsterdam canals, former headoffice of the “Nederlandsche Handel Maatschappij” A company, founded by the King in the early 1820′s, in an attempt to revive the Dutch East India Company, that was to evolve eventually into today’s ABN AMRO. | Amsterdam 2012

 

Interior design & Interior decoration of ‘Pasta e Basta’ restaurant | Amsterdam

 

Wheat  – Painted ceiling for an architect’s office – Amsterdam

 

Waterland Swans – design for a monumental sculpture on a  roundabout – A10 peripheral highway | Amsterdam

 

Pasta e Basta  – IInterior design and decoration of a restaurant | Rotterdam

 

Milk & Honey – Painted ceilings for the entrance hall and kitchen of a 17th c.monumental farmhouse | Abcoude 2005

 

Amazon branches – Second in a series of three painted rooms in a private residence  | Amsterdam

 

Interior decoration of “Club Sinners in Heaven” | Amsterdam

 

Horses – Third in a series of three painted rooms in a private residence  | Amsterdam

 

Cacatua Moluccensis – Ara Macao – Amazona Amazonica – Ara Militaris – Paintings for the entrance hall of a 17th c. canalhouse – Keizersgracht Amsterdam

 

Terra Incognita – Two new painted ceilings for an 18th Century Keizersgracht monument | Amsterdam

 

Interior decorations of a private residence | Miami Fl, USA

 

NaCl  – design for a sandblast decorated glass wall in a fashion department store | NL

 

The Red Sea – Marine fossils in a marbeled wall – Penthouse Suite | Amstelveen

 

Sleeping Beauty – New paintings, and restorations on a series of existing wallpanels in the entrance of a 19th c. mansion | Driemond

 

Le Trompe-L’oeil – New painted ceiling for a late 19th c. Arts & Crafts style villa | Abcoude 2016

 

Leaves of Grass – Painted Ceiling for a private residence | Bergen NH 2012 / 13

 

Taxidermia – Design for a Butterflies and Moth decorated wallpaper | 2013

 

Le Côte d’Or – Goldleaved mural with peacocks and magpies v.i.p lounge Club “Abe” – Amsterdam – 2013

 

L’Age d’Or – Goldleaved mural with four large scale magpies, Lounge bar Club “Abe” – Amsterdam – 2013

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