Landhaus Hexagonal Ceiling

Recently I completed a project three or more years in the making,
for a wonderful home in Orinda, California, built in the style of a Landhaus-Villa, combining elements from both Italian and Austrian hunting lodges, and detailed with custom polychromed ironwork, and antique handmade bricks stamped with the Hapsburg crest.

I was commissioned to design an ornamental painted ceiling for this fantastic hexagonal shaped room!

detail of the handpainted Florentine ceiling border

My patrons love the painted ornament of renaissance Italy as much as I do, so for its principal border element I took inspiration from the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. This element was adapted and hand-painted 66 times - a natural, hexagonal number, also a sphenic number, adding a mathematical stability and a sense of architectural symmetry to a slightly off-center space.

before- an unfinished white ceiling in a room with great bones...

after - 22karat gold leaf stars and accents glitter in a colorful ceiling from which grows a polychrome iron chandelier.

more details to follow.... stay tuned

Lynne Rutter Murals & Decorative Painting