The abundance of yellow and the wall-to-wall tomes in a square room of not too large a scale make it very cosy. Having said that I think I would want to be sticking my head around the door at the Picasso, Gainsborough and tapestries in the sitting room next to it; not to mention that music room.
These wall flourishes and Trompe-l’œil details can be found in the Galerie d’Apollon in the Louvre, Paris.
a duck in inlaid malachite, marble and other semi-precious stones
Boxes of stones lie awaiting placement, sometimes sitting for years on the workshop walls until such time as they will be called upon to provide the right shade of shadow on a lemon, or the right tone of pink on a cheek.
Tag: Pietre Dura