French Empire Dining Room

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This French Empire Style Dining Room has been created from a bare new room using plasterwork based on period details combined with window and lower wall panelling.

The upper walls are covered in padded silk panels, framed by fine columns capped with swans. Gilded areas of the plasterwork and panelling complete the opulent atmosphere.

An illusion of added height is achieved by the low dado rail and vertical elements such as the columns between the silk panels and floor to ceiling window frames. The cornice follows these contours to break up the rectangular ceiling.

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Below can be seen the double doors to the room; faced with the awkward space around them we decided to add two dummy doors and panel the whole area from floor to ceiling.

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Kensington Interiors International Interior Design and Decoration service available for commissions worldwide. Specialist in 19th century interiors and gardens, decorative paint finishes, frescoes, murals, trompe l'oeil, grisaille, plasterwork, wall panelling, furniture and stands for fairs and exhibitions.