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On a high floor in a Dallas condo, the romantic spirits summoned are those of nineteenth-century Orientalists who traveled Arab lands and returned home with large-scale, naturalistic landscapes. The client commissioned the mural for a room showcasing a sarcophagus. Later epochs are called to mind by the treatment of the main hall of a San Francisco decorators’ showcase with trompe l’oeil vault work and a faux-parchment hanging on the theme of “mind, body and spirit.” The painted ceiling of a conservatory in Atherton, California, features Renaissance arabesques in faux-gold-leaf mosaic. Round vaults of a hallway of a Santa Barbara residence harken back to the same era.
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For two movie lovers, Evans & Brown appealed to two different critical sensibilities – one favoring the legends of the Golden Era, the other reflecting the tastes of a more eclectic cineaste.
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A wine cellar, cool and dark, is a worthy destination for a trompe l’oeil burst of vineyard vistas and abundant sunshine. A wall mural map in faux-tile provides something of an atlas for lost visitors.
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For a Houston residence where Evans & Brown’s other work included painted ceilings for a loggia and family room, wall murals in the kitchen depict some monkey mischief.
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Updating an estate in Hillsborough, California, the Wiseman Group turned to Evans & Brown for a tour de force powder room to complement the style of a Tudor-style home. Evans and Brown painted walls, cabinet and mirror in what C Magazine termed a “charming” trompe-l’oeil style, taking cues from the iconic 40’s stage sets of a French artist, Christian Berard.
