Modern House Minimalist Design

  Dear readers, a few weeks ago I told you about a Lefèvre Interiors library project, completely executed in the English Regency style. If you missed this post, you can read it HERE .   Lefèvre Interiors initial design sketch of the Regency styled library.   Remember I mentionned that I really needed to visit our client to take some ‘after’ pictures! A couple of days after posting about this

  Dear readers, a few weeks ago I told you about a Lefèvre Interiors library project, completely executed in the English Regency style. If you missed this post, you can read it HERE .   Lefèvre Interiors initial design sketch of the Regency styled library.   Remember I mentionned that I really needed to visit our client to take some ‘after’ pictures! A couple of days after posting about this project, I received an email from our client , sending me…yes indeed…’after’ pictures!!! So I realized that my client was also a reader of my blog!!!! I was very surprised and enchanted at the same time!   Mahogany library bookcases assembled at our client’s home. Image LEFEVRE INTERIORS Image LEFEVRE INTERIORS   The following pictures are the ‘after’ pictures I received from our client.   Notice the British Regency period (1811-1820) elements: mahogany armchairs, double desk and especially the daybed. All this, together with the collection of antiq...

As I told you in my earlier post, I was preparing upcoming meetings with clients these passed days and was browsing into the Lefèvre Interiors realizations file and found these pictures of an earlier library project. The library is installed in a Brussels mansion and is designed in the British Regency style. The bookcases are executed in mahogany, that was very popular in the early 19th century

As I told you in my earlier post, I was preparing upcoming meetings with clients these passed days and was browsing into the Lefèvre Interiors realizations file and found these pictures of an earlier library project. The library is installed in a Brussels mansion and is designed in the British Regency style. The bookcases are executed in mahogany, that was very popular in the early 19th century Regency style (1811-1820).   This was our initial design sketch.   I remember me discussing about the Regency style with the home owner (the Regency style was his favorite design style) and we talked a lot about Thomas Hope (1769 -1831),  who was not only a Dutch and British merchant banker, author and philosopher but also an art collector. Hope was eager to advance public awareness of historical painting and design and to influence design in the grand houses of Regency London. He began sketching furniture, room interiors and costumes. In 1807 Thomas Hope published sk...