Framed

Sometimes art doesn't need a frame. One way to make an interior more modern and less formal is to take a painting out of its frame and just hang the canvas on the wall, as in the room pictured below.

A new home in Buckhead (Atlanta, Georgia).

Interior design by James Michael Howard.

Architecture by William T. Baker.

Photography by Max Kim-Bee.

Veranda (September - October 2012).

 

A closer look . . .

A new home in Buckhead (Atlanta, Georgia).

Interior design by James Michael Howard.

Architecture by William T. Baker.

Photography by Max Kim-Bee.

Veranda (September - October 2012)

 



 

 

Sometimes the frame itself is the work of art.

"A collection of frames on exhibit at the Stefano Bardini Museum [in Florence, Italy]; the blue walls were copied by Isabella Stewart Gardner for her own Boston museum."

Photography by Annie Schlechter.

Produced and written by Mario Lopez-Cordero.

Veranda (September 2011).

 



 Look behind the bottles to see a gold frame leaning against the wall.

Vintage wallpaper from Second Hand Rose.

Dining room in Bernard, Vermont cottage of Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barker.

Interior design by Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barker.

Interview by Mimi Read.

Photography by Ditte Isager.

House Beautiful (November 2011).

 

 "The mantel shelf holds one of the designer's hallmark 'extreme juxtapositions': a massive empty picture frame, propped against the mirror, alongside antlers her children collected on hikes. Glass domes shelter antique taxidermy."

Jacksonville, Illinois home of Annie Brahler, owner of Euro Trash,

an interior design and styling company.

Interior design by Annie Brahler.

Interview by Douglas Brenner.

Photography by Bjorn Wallander.

House Beautiful (May 2012).

 

 

And sometimes frames provide a setting for plates, cups or a surreal eye . . .



A slightly surreal vignette with an eye inside Louis XIII frames.

Manoir de Berthouville, the Normandy, France home of Boston designer Charles Spada.

The home was "built in 1652 as a relais de chasse, or hunting lodge." 

Renovation, interior design and text by Charles Spada.

Photography by Alexandre Bailhache.

Veranda (January - February 2012).

 



Another view of the Louis XIII frames, which are above a mantel in the master suite.

Manoir de Berthouville, the Normandy, France home of Boston designer Charles Spada.

The home was "built in 1652 as a relais de chasse, or hunting lodge."

Renovation, interior design and text by Charles Spada.

Photography by Alexandre Bailhache.

Veranda (January - February 2012).

 



Another view of the master suite.

Notice the portrait and the round frame propped against the bookshelves.

Manoir de Berthouville, the Normandy, France home of Boston designer Charles Spada.

The home was "built in 1652 as a relais de chasse, or hunting lodge."

Renovation, interior design and text by Charles Spada.

Photography by Alexandre Bailhache.

Veranda (January - February 2012).

 



Creil dinnerware mounted in and around a frame.

Manoir de Berthouville, the Normandy, France home of Boston designer Charles Spada.

The home was "built in 1652 as a relais de chasse, or hunting lodge."

Renovation, interior design and text by Charles Spada.

Photography by Alexandre Bailhache.

Veranda (January - February 2012).

  

 



"An Etruscan cup is centered in a gilt frame."

1865 brownstone of Christopher Knight, director of the gallery Maison Gerard,
and Carlos Aponte, an artist and illustrator, in Jersey City, New Jersey. 

Interior design by Christopher Knight.

Text by Peter Terzian.

Styled by JC Garcia-Lavin.

Photography by Miguel Flores-Vianna.

Elle Decor (December 2011).